Well, Chris, I got news for yuh, I can’t get the enhanced Siri voices either. Just the Normal ones. Mind you, since Thom has come out on the iPhone as part of IOS10, I’ve been using the inhanced version of Thom both on my mid 2009 Mac book pro and my iPhone7+. I’ve noticed that I can make Alex more expressive on my Mac but not my iPHone. It’s that expressiveness which I love and which is a big reason why I stick to the Thom inhanced voice. IF I could get the Aaron inhanced voice on my Mac, (Aaron being the US. male Siri voice) I would, but, since I want consistancy between my devices, I stick with inhanced Thom.
Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Comcast XFinity Voice Guidance, Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone7+ and Apple TV user! > On Nov 1, 2016, at 1:25 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > What I! wanna know, is why on earth I cannot get the Siri Enhanced voices > back? > > Accessibility is being completely beat around the bush with me regarding it. > Some reps tell me they did away with the enhanced American english male and > female voices, while others say, no, they should be there, while thirdly, > others say, they're not there and were taken out, but they're going to be > coming back soon. > > I just want the truth in what on earth happened. I frankly don't like Alex, > but that's just me. I've grown to tollerate him, but that's about it. I find > most of the other Nuance voices to be the same, given my hearing loss. > > The male Siri enhanced voice is about the only one I can do with ease. The > compact isn't terrible, but it's way to downsampled and fuzzy for my liking. > Plus, some of the way it pronounces things is utter crap! > > Before anyone says anything, I've definitely done what was suggested by > Applevis by plugging in my phone to the actual wall, not the mac before > restoring an iCloud backup with the voices included from a device which still > has access to them. That did no good. > > I've also restored and set up as a new device both from the phone itself as > well as from ITunes directly on the mac. No good. > > BTW, no, this is not a public nor private beta. Neither ones have ever > touched this device. > > Even stranger, a friend of mine just got an iPhone 6S+, and he had the voices > right from the get go. Both enhanced were there. So, why the hell can't I > seem to get them. > > It's the weirdest thing. I did an iOS update about 3 or 4 builds back, and > ever since, they've just totally vannished. > --- > Christopher Gilland > JAWS Certified, 2016. > Training Instructor. > > i...@gillandmarketing.com > Phone: (704) 256-8010. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Lamanche" <ioani...@me.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 11:55 AM > Subject: Ipod touch latest and Alex > > > Hi, > > Lucky me! I have got an iPod touch for my birthday. The trouble is for the > life of me I can't work out how to download and enable Alex as my voice. I've > been through accessibility, and voices, accessibility, Voiceover and speech, > but I still cannot work it out. I can't stand Daniel, and Samantha is > tolerable but my favourite is Alex. I have managed to enable him on my > iphone SE but ipod touch? No go. Please help! Ipod touch is supposed to > have the A8 chip so it should be possible. Or maybe not? > > Andrew > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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