Was the real first sound movie Spanish?

SPAIN/USA Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, directed by Alan Crosland in 1927, has always laid claim to being the first film on general release featuring sound. However, it has recently been discovered that a short movie, From Far Seville, directed by Lee DeForest in 1923, featured a Spanish singer, Conchita Piquer. Only 17 at the time, Piquer had been taken to Hollywood to join a bevy of Spanish and Spanish-American actors, singers and dances at a time when the business was crowded with latin lover types, who made plenty of successful films. A talented performer, Conchita Piquer's career never took off on the other side of the Atlantic although she debuted in New York City at the age of 14, and later appeared with Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, and Fred and Adele Astaire. She returned home to Spain, however, where she was never forgotten and continued to perform almost unto her death in 1990. DeForest was in fact an inventor, credited with one of the principal inventions which brought sound to motion pictures.