Yes Nick that has been absolutely my experience, I'm glad to see you echoing it. I've set the voice to the Australian one, I just can't determine if the HQ voice has downloaded. When I put the "use compact voice" on, I do hear a difference in sound. My point wasn't so much about using (or not) the irish voice, it was simply that surely I should have a say in whether it downloads or not? I mean, it's my damn iPhone isn't it? Maybe I want to keep the space taken up by the premium voice for something else?
Sighted users have choices in their visual displays in terms of themeing them with wall-papers etc. Why shouldn't we as blind users have the same choices over the "visual theming"? That last bit is an extract of a mail I sent to apple, which yet again has been ignored. Dónal On 14 Oct 2011, at 09:31, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi Donál > > While it will download the premium voice, simply go into > Settings>General>Accessibility>VoiceOver and toggle the "Use compact voice" > switch to on. If you mainly don't want the Irish voice at all, simply go into > Settings>General>International>Region Format and select the other format that > you wish to use, such as UNited States. If a voice is available for the > region you select depending on the language you have, it will switch to that > voice when selected and if plugged in and connected to Wi-Fi, the voice will > download. Unfortunately, you don't have much control over it from here on, > and you can't monitor its progress to ensure it's downloading. Apple is > supposed to have fixed it so that any voice you have switched to via the > language rotor regardless of default language is supposed to download, if the > compact switch is set to off, but I haven't seen this work at all yet. Also, > the default voice will continue to speak element types. > > Regards, > Nic > On Oct 13, 2011, at 11:17 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > >> Sorry Chris don't follow you? >> On 13 Oct 2011, at 22:14, chris hallsworth wrote: >> >>> Yes and change the default voice in International Settings. >>> >>> On 13/10/2011 21:20, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> Ok so if I've got this right, as soon as I plug my i-device into an AC >>>> power outlet and assuming it's on a WIFI network, I'm going to get a >>>> premium voice. As I may have mentioned before, the oirish one is possibly >>>> the worst example of concatenative speech synthesis I've come across in >>>> years. So, bluntly, is there a way to prevent apple's nanny-state giving >>>> me a premium voice I don't want, and using up valuable band-width I don't >>>> want to waste. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Dónal >>>> Dónal Fitzpatrick >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>>> >>>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >>>> at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >>>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>>> or at the public Mail Archive: >>>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >>>> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >>>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >>>> >>>> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >>>> and worm-free! >>>> >>>> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >>>> the list website at: >>>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >>>> >>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>> >>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>> [email protected] >>> >>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >>> at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>> or at the public Mail Archive: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >>> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >>> >>> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >>> and worm-free! >>> >>> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >>> the list website at: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >> >> Dónal Fitzpatrick >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at >> either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> Dónal Fitzpatrick [email protected] <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. 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