RE: Siri voice for voice over

[Rose Combs]

Well, I finally got Alex back, not even sure how I did it since it was more or 
less in my sleep at 3 this morning.  


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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Kathy Metters
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 9:18 PM
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Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over

Something is seriously wrong with the Samantha voice. Sounds like she had a 
very bad operation and it didn't go well. OS9 was not kind to her. Samantha 
sounds like she has an extreme case of laryngitis. She absolutely sounds awful! 
I guess we will have to learn to live with Siri, because living with Samantha 
is absolutely impossible.

Katie Lady Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 19, 2015, at 6:24 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very unhappy, 
> because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But just 
> recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be replaced 
> with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try to 
> live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you who 
> don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, give it 
> a try.
> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Gmail]

Oh, good. I actually prefer Karen over Samantha in compact mode, but only in 
iOS 7. In iOS 8, I prefer the compact version of Samantha over Karen. To my 
ears, at least, Karen sounds different between iOS 7 and 8. In iOS eight, Karen 
seems to have taken over some qualities of her noncompact form, which drives me 
crazy.


Thanks,
Ari

> On Sep 22, 2015, at 5:33 AM, Alex Hall  wrote:
> 
> I have found the compact voice to be unchanged, so I just continue to use 
> that. The full version does sound very odd, but so far, compact is okay.
>> On Sep 22, 2015, at 08:32, Richard Turner  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> She doesn't sound too bad on regular use, but when you are editting, she 
>> sounds like she has been drinking and smoking for 40 years and has a sore 
>> throat on top of that.
>> Pretty strange.
>> Richard
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 21, 2015, at 9:18 PM, Kathy Metters  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Something is seriously wrong with the Samantha voice. Sounds like she had a 
>>> very bad operation and it didn't go well. OS9 was not kind to her. Samantha 
>>> sounds like she has an extreme case of laryngitis. She absolutely sounds 
>>> awful! I guess we will have to learn to live with Siri, because living with 
>>> Samantha is absolutely impossible.
>>> 
>>> Katie Lady Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
 On Sep 19, 2015, at 6:24 PM, Mary Otten  wrote:
 
 I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
 unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. 
 But just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
 replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
 Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books 
 on the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
 Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same 
 voice, Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to 
 really try to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for 
 those of you who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than 
 the four ss, give it a try.
 Sent from my iPhone
 
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Alex Hall]

I have found the compact voice to be unchanged, so I just continue to use that. 
The full version does sound very odd, but so far, compact is okay.
> On Sep 22, 2015, at 08:32, Richard Turner  wrote:
> 
> 
> She doesn't sound too bad on regular use, but when you are editting, she 
> sounds like she has been drinking and smoking for 40 years and has a sore 
> throat on top of that.
> Pretty strange.
> Richard
> 
> 
>> On Sep 21, 2015, at 9:18 PM, Kathy Metters  wrote:
>> 
>> Something is seriously wrong with the Samantha voice. Sounds like she had a 
>> very bad operation and it didn't go well. OS9 was not kind to her. Samantha 
>> sounds like she has an extreme case of laryngitis. She absolutely sounds 
>> awful! I guess we will have to learn to live with Siri, because living with 
>> Samantha is absolutely impossible.
>> 
>> Katie Lady Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 6:24 PM, Mary Otten  wrote:
>>> 
>>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But 
>>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
>>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
>>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
>>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
>>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try 
>>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you 
>>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, 
>>> give it a try.
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Richard Turner]

She doesn't sound too bad on regular use, but when you are editting, she sounds 
like she has been drinking and smoking for 40 years and has a sore throat on 
top of that.
Pretty strange.
Richard


> On Sep 21, 2015, at 9:18 PM, Kathy Metters  wrote:
> 
> Something is seriously wrong with the Samantha voice. Sounds like she had a 
> very bad operation and it didn't go well. OS9 was not kind to her. Samantha 
> sounds like she has an extreme case of laryngitis. She absolutely sounds 
> awful! I guess we will have to learn to live with Siri, because living with 
> Samantha is absolutely impossible.
> 
> Katie Lady Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 6:24 PM, Mary Otten  wrote:
>> 
>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But 
>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try 
>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you 
>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, 
>> give it a try.
>> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Jenifer Barr]

It sounds to me like she's always upset! Lol. 

Jenifer Barr
Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 22, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Alex Hall  wrote:
> 
> I have found the compact voice to be unchanged, so I just continue to use 
> that. The full version does sound very odd, but so far, compact is okay.
>> On Sep 22, 2015, at 08:32, Richard Turner  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> She doesn't sound too bad on regular use, but when you are editting, she 
>> sounds like she has been drinking and smoking for 40 years and has a sore 
>> throat on top of that.
>> Pretty strange.
>> Richard
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 21, 2015, at 9:18 PM, Kathy Metters  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Something is seriously wrong with the Samantha voice. Sounds like she had a 
>>> very bad operation and it didn't go well. OS9 was not kind to her. Samantha 
>>> sounds like she has an extreme case of laryngitis. She absolutely sounds 
>>> awful! I guess we will have to learn to live with Siri, because living with 
>>> Samantha is absolutely impossible.
>>> 
>>> Katie Lady Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
 On Sep 19, 2015, at 6:24 PM, Mary Otten  wrote:
 
 I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
 unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. 
 But just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
 replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
 Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books 
 on the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
 Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same 
 voice, Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to 
 really try to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for 
 those of you who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than 
 the four ss, give it a try.
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Kathy Metters]

Something is seriously wrong with the Samantha voice. Sounds like she had a 
very bad operation and it didn't go well. OS9 was not kind to her. Samantha 
sounds like she has an extreme case of laryngitis. She absolutely sounds awful! 
I guess we will have to learn to live with Siri, because living with Samantha 
is absolutely impossible.

Katie Lady Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 19, 2015, at 6:24 PM, Mary Otten  wrote:
> 
> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very unhappy, 
> because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But just 
> recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be replaced 
> with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try to 
> live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you who 
> don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, give it 
> a try.
> Sent from my iPhone
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RE: Siri voice for voice over

[Sieghard Weitzel]

OK,thenI guess Andrew must have been looking in the wrong spot. If you read 
this, Andrew, make sure you go into Voiceover settings and then Speech and not 
the Speech option in the main accessibility settings. Once you are there you 
can either add US English as another language which allows you to leave 
Samanthas as the default dialect and you can select/download either male or 
female SIRI once you added US English and then use the rotor to go to Language 
and change it on the fly.


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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
John J Jacques
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 6:52 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over

Hi all, they are deffinatly available for the 4 s and up, as I just added them 
to my girlfriends 4 s!

Have a good one:
John


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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Andrew Lamanche]

Hi Shawn,

I have upgraded to iOS9 on iphone 5C.  Does this also make it possible to use 
siri voice as the default voice for VoiceOver?  I've looked under speech in 
accessibility in settings and also under siri but I can't see an option to do 
this.  Maybe iphone 5C is not capable to utilise siri voice as VoiceOver voice. 
 

Andrew
> On 21 Sep 2015, at 01:40, Shawn Krasniuk  wrote:
> 
> Did you configure the Siri voices to work with your default dialect or did 
> you use a secondary language for it? Also, check if you downloaded them 
> through the speech setting by itself in accessibility. I saw someone did that 
> and wondered why it wasn't working for them but then they realized that they 
> downloaded it in the wrong place so it wasn't showing up in Voiceover.
> 
> Shawn
> Sent From My White MacBook
> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
> 
>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:46 PM, DJ  wrote:
>> 
>> I can't get the siri voices to work for VO on my 5.  It let's me select
>> them, but even after they download they still won't talk.  It still uses
>> Samantha voice.  Oh well.
>> 
>> DJ 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
>> Of Mary Otten
>> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 9:25 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Siri voice for voice over
>> 
>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very
>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But
>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be
>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on
>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of
>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice,
>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try
>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you
>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss,
>> give it a try.
>> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Mary Otten]

The Siri voices are available on my old for S. So I think they should be 
available on the five as well.
Mary

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 21, 2015, at 6:26 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
> 
> If it could they would be available if you to to Settings > Accessibility > 
> Voiceover > Speech > Default Dialect. If they are not there then like Alex 
> the SIRI voices are most likely only available on 64 Bit devices which the 
> iPhone 5 and 5C are not. The oldest device where this would be available 
> would be the 5S, also the 6 and 6 Plus and, of course, the new 6S and 6S Plus 
> which are available this Friday.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> Andrew Lamanche
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 5:57 AM
> To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over
> 
> Hi Shawn,
> 
> I have upgraded to iOS9 on iphone 5C.  Does this also make it possible to use 
> siri voice as the default voice for VoiceOver?  I've looked under speech in 
> accessibility in settings and also under siri but I can't see an option to do 
> this.  Maybe iphone 5C is not capable to utilise siri voice as VoiceOver 
> voice.  
> 
> Andrew
>> On 21 Sep 2015, at 01:40, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Did you configure the Siri voices to work with your default dialect or did 
>> you use a secondary language for it? Also, check if you downloaded them 
>> through the speech setting by itself in accessibility. I saw someone did 
>> that and wondered why it wasn't working for them but then they realized that 
>> they downloaded it in the wrong place so it wasn't showing up in Voiceover.
>> 
>> Shawn
>> Sent From My White MacBook
>> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
>> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
>> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
>> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
>> 
>>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:46 PM, DJ <grou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I can't get the siri voices to work for VO on my 5.  It let's me select
>>> them, but even after they download they still won't talk.  It still uses
>>> Samantha voice.  Oh well.
>>> 
>>> DJ 
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
>>> Of Mary Otten
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 9:25 PM
>>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>>> Subject: Siri voice for voice over
>>> 
>>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very
>>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But
>>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be
>>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on
>>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of
>>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice,
>>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try
>>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you
>>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss,
>>> give it a try.
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[John J Jacques]

Hi all, they are deffinatly available for the 4 s and up, as I just added
them to my girlfriends 4 s!

Have a good one:
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RE: Siri voice for voice over

[Sieghard Weitzel]

If it could they would be available if you to to Settings > Accessibility > 
Voiceover > Speech > Default Dialect. If they are not there then like Alex the 
SIRI voices are most likely only available on 64 Bit devices which the iPhone 5 
and 5C are not. The oldest device where this would be available would be the 
5S, also the 6 and 6 Plus and, of course, the new 6S and 6S Plus which are 
available this Friday.

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Andrew Lamanche
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 5:57 AM
To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over

Hi Shawn,

I have upgraded to iOS9 on iphone 5C.  Does this also make it possible to use 
siri voice as the default voice for VoiceOver?  I've looked under speech in 
accessibility in settings and also under siri but I can't see an option to do 
this.  Maybe iphone 5C is not capable to utilise siri voice as VoiceOver voice. 
 

Andrew
> On 21 Sep 2015, at 01:40, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Did you configure the Siri voices to work with your default dialect or did 
> you use a secondary language for it? Also, check if you downloaded them 
> through the speech setting by itself in accessibility. I saw someone did that 
> and wondered why it wasn't working for them but then they realized that they 
> downloaded it in the wrong place so it wasn't showing up in Voiceover.
> 
> Shawn
> Sent From My White MacBook
> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
> 
>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:46 PM, DJ <grou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I can't get the siri voices to work for VO on my 5.  It let's me select
>> them, but even after they download they still won't talk.  It still uses
>> Samantha voice.  Oh well.
>> 
>> DJ 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
>> Of Mary Otten
>> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 9:25 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Siri voice for voice over
>> 
>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very
>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But
>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be
>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on
>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of
>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice,
>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try
>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you
>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss,
>> give it a try.
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
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RE: Siri voice for voice over

[Rose Combs]

Currently I am running Siri female the larger on my phone, not sure if it uses 
Kindle or not but was reading my Bible from Kindle very well.  I was also 
reading an iBook yesterday and with the rate at 55 to 60 I actually could hear 
it better than Alex, even though I think I still prefer Alex.  Figured I'd give 
it a try at least.  

Male Siri although okay for asking questions was not at all easy to listen to 
when reading long passages.  

I probably will get Alex back soon, but figured it was worth a try not to have 
to listen to Samantha who I have never cared for.  

Rose Combs
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Mary Otten
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 6:25 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Siri voice for voice over

I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very unhappy, 
because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But just 
recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be replaced with 
a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on the 
iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of Kendall, 
where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, Kendra, I 
tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try to live with 
it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you who don't care 
for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, give it a try.
Sent from my iPhone

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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[christopher hallsworth]

Go to settings > general > accessibility > VoiceOver > speech > default dialect.
> On 21 Sep 2015, at 17:26, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com> wrote:
> 
> But how do you actually choose them to make them the default Voiceover voice?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Andrew
>> On 21 Sep 2015, at 14:30, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The Siri voices are available on my old for S. So I think they should be 
>> available on the five as well.
>> Mary
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Sep 21, 2015, at 6:26 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If it could they would be available if you to to Settings > Accessibility > 
>>> Voiceover > Speech > Default Dialect. If they are not there then like Alex 
>>> the SIRI voices are most likely only available on 64 Bit devices which the 
>>> iPhone 5 and 5C are not. The oldest device where this would be available 
>>> would be the 5S, also the 6 and 6 Plus and, of course, the new 6S and 6S 
>>> Plus which are available this Friday.
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>>> Of Andrew Lamanche
>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 5:57 AM
>>> To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
>>> Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over
>>> 
>>> Hi Shawn,
>>> 
>>> I have upgraded to iOS9 on iphone 5C.  Does this also make it possible to 
>>> use siri voice as the default voice for VoiceOver?  I've looked under 
>>> speech in accessibility in settings and also under siri but I can't see an 
>>> option to do this.  Maybe iphone 5C is not capable to utilise siri voice as 
>>> VoiceOver voice.  
>>> 
>>> Andrew
>>>> On 21 Sep 2015, at 01:40, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Did you configure the Siri voices to work with your default dialect or did 
>>>> you use a secondary language for it? Also, check if you downloaded them 
>>>> through the speech setting by itself in accessibility. I saw someone did 
>>>> that and wondered why it wasn't working for them but then they realized 
>>>> that they downloaded it in the wrong place so it wasn't showing up in 
>>>> Voiceover.
>>>> 
>>>> Shawn
>>>> Sent From My White MacBook
>>>> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
>>>> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
>>>> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
>>>> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:46 PM, DJ <grou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I can't get the siri voices to work for VO on my 5.  It let's me select
>>>>> them, but even after they download they still won't talk.  It still uses
>>>>> Samantha voice.  Oh well.
>>>>> 
>>>>> DJ 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Original Message-
>>>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
>>>>> Of Mary Otten
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 9:25 PM
>>>>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>>>>> Subject: Siri voice for voice over
>>>>> 
>>>>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very
>>>>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. 
>>>>> But
>>>>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be
>>>>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>>>>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books 
>>>>> on
>>>>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of
>>>>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same 
>>>>> voice,
>>>>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try
>>>>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you
>>>>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss,
>>>>> give it a try.
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Andrew Lamanche]

But how do you actually choose them to make them the default Voiceover voice?

Many thanks

Andrew
> On 21 Sep 2015, at 14:30, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The Siri voices are available on my old for S. So I think they should be 
> available on the five as well.
> Mary
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Sep 21, 2015, at 6:26 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> If it could they would be available if you to to Settings > Accessibility > 
>> Voiceover > Speech > Default Dialect. If they are not there then like Alex 
>> the SIRI voices are most likely only available on 64 Bit devices which the 
>> iPhone 5 and 5C are not. The oldest device where this would be available 
>> would be the 5S, also the 6 and 6 Plus and, of course, the new 6S and 6S 
>> Plus which are available this Friday.
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>> Of Andrew Lamanche
>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 5:57 AM
>> To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
>> Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over
>> 
>> Hi Shawn,
>> 
>> I have upgraded to iOS9 on iphone 5C.  Does this also make it possible to 
>> use siri voice as the default voice for VoiceOver?  I've looked under speech 
>> in accessibility in settings and also under siri but I can't see an option 
>> to do this.  Maybe iphone 5C is not capable to utilise siri voice as 
>> VoiceOver voice.  
>> 
>> Andrew
>>> On 21 Sep 2015, at 01:40, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Did you configure the Siri voices to work with your default dialect or did 
>>> you use a secondary language for it? Also, check if you downloaded them 
>>> through the speech setting by itself in accessibility. I saw someone did 
>>> that and wondered why it wasn't working for them but then they realized 
>>> that they downloaded it in the wrong place so it wasn't showing up in 
>>> Voiceover.
>>> 
>>> Shawn
>>> Sent From My White MacBook
>>> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
>>> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
>>> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
>>> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:46 PM, DJ <grou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I can't get the siri voices to work for VO on my 5.  It let's me select
>>>> them, but even after they download they still won't talk.  It still uses
>>>> Samantha voice.  Oh well.
>>>> 
>>>> DJ 
>>>> 
>>>> -Original Message-
>>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
>>>> Of Mary Otten
>>>> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 9:25 PM
>>>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>>>> Subject: Siri voice for voice over
>>>> 
>>>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very
>>>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But
>>>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be
>>>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>>>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on
>>>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of
>>>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice,
>>>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try
>>>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you
>>>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss,
>>>> give it a try.
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

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Trippy! I like her better in compact mode then non-compact mode, and I also 
like her iOS 7 incarnation better than her iOS 8 one. She's too… I don't know, 
shaky… In high-quality rmode. So is Samantha, for that matter. I like a human 
sounding voice, yes, but one that's smoother in the transitions between words. 
As an example, I'd have to say my favorite Voice is Kate from NeoSpeech. I use 
her on Voice Dream Reader all the time, and I hardly ever switch to anything 
else.


Thanks,
Ari

> On Sep 20, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Alex Stone <alex.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Richard, I heard this at the time, it was excellent. For me, she's still the 
> best voice, Alex doesn't do it for me.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Turner
> Sent: 20 September 2015 19:22
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: Siri voice for voice over
> 
> For what it is worth, here is an interview from just before the iPhone 5 was 
> released on  YouTube with Karen Jacobson, the source for the Australian 
> Female voice named Karen on iPHones and GPS systems around the world.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z5XYvtP04M
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> Sieghard Weitzel
> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 9:33 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: Siri voice for voice over
> 
> Glad I read your message first, I was about to write one along the same 
> lines, then I cancelled it because I thought why add more traffic to the 
> list, but after I read your message I thought I also ask. I even Googled this 
> and found references as to the real people whose voices are behind SIRI, e.g. 
> the female US SIRI voice is based on Susan Bennett, but I didn't come across 
> Aaron and Nicky anywhere.
> 
> Regards,
> Sieghard 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> christopher hallsworth
> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 12:05 AM
> To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over
> 
> Right. Can I ask, how the hell do you know the names of the Siri voices? 
> Because on my iOS devides at least, all I get is "Siri Male", "Siri Female" 
> etc.
>> On 20 Sep 2015, at 07:26, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah I like the Siri voices for Voiceover too. I alternate between Gordon, 
>> the Australian male Siri voice and Martha, the British female Siri voice. I 
>> don't really care for the American siri voices, Aaron and Nicky, because 
>> Nicky has lost her inflection she had in previous iOS versions and Aaron 
>> kinda reminds me of Neospeech Paul.
>> 
>> Shawn
>> Sent From My White MacBook
>> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
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>> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
>> 
>>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But 
>>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
>>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
>>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
>>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
>>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try 
>>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you 
>>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, 
>>> give it a try.
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Andrew Lamanche]

Ah, thanks a lot.  That explains it because they are certainly not available 
where you've just pointed me to.

Thanks

Andrew
> On 21 Sep 2015, at 14:26, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
> 
> If it could they would be available if you to to Settings > Accessibility > 
> Voiceover > Speech > Default Dialect. If they are not there then like Alex 
> the SIRI voices are most likely only available on 64 Bit devices which the 
> iPhone 5 and 5C are not. The oldest device where this would be available 
> would be the 5S, also the 6 and 6 Plus and, of course, the new 6S and 6S Plus 
> which are available this Friday.
> 
> -Original Message-
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> Andrew Lamanche
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 5:57 AM
> To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over
> 
> Hi Shawn,
> 
> I have upgraded to iOS9 on iphone 5C.  Does this also make it possible to use 
> siri voice as the default voice for VoiceOver?  I've looked under speech in 
> accessibility in settings and also under siri but I can't see an option to do 
> this.  Maybe iphone 5C is not capable to utilise siri voice as VoiceOver 
> voice.  
> 
> Andrew
>> On 21 Sep 2015, at 01:40, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Did you configure the Siri voices to work with your default dialect or did 
>> you use a secondary language for it? Also, check if you downloaded them 
>> through the speech setting by itself in accessibility. I saw someone did 
>> that and wondered why it wasn't working for them but then they realized that 
>> they downloaded it in the wrong place so it wasn't showing up in Voiceover.
>> 
>> Shawn
>> Sent From My White MacBook
>> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
>> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
>> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
>> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
>> 
>>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:46 PM, DJ <grou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I can't get the siri voices to work for VO on my 5.  It let's me select
>>> them, but even after they download they still won't talk.  It still uses
>>> Samantha voice.  Oh well.
>>> 
>>> DJ 
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
>>> Of Mary Otten
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 9:25 PM
>>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>>> Subject: Siri voice for voice over
>>> 
>>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very
>>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But
>>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be
>>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on
>>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of
>>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice,
>>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try
>>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you
>>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss,
>>> give it a try.
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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RE: Siri voice for voice over

[Rose Combs]

I tried Seri female advanced.  I want Alex back, but for some reason going to 
settings, general, speech voices says Alex is selected but he is not talking.  
I tried and Seri is okay but I thought Alex read a bet better.  I would like 
him back and Hey Seri is being a real silly person sending me to an optical 
store, then to voice-over for the mac,  I don't have a mac and I just way the 
only man in my life back.  


Rose Combs
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Shawn Krasniuk
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 5:40 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over

Did you configure the Siri voices to work with your default dialect or did you 
use a secondary language for it? Also, check if you downloaded them through the 
speech setting by itself in accessibility. I saw someone did that and wondered 
why it wasn't working for them but then they realized that they downloaded it 
in the wrong place so it wasn't showing up in Voiceover.

Shawn
Sent From My White MacBook
Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com

> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:46 PM, DJ <grou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I can't get the siri voices to work for VO on my 5.  It let's me select
> them, but even after they download they still won't talk.  It still uses
> Samantha voice.  Oh well.
> 
> DJ 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Mary Otten
> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 9:25 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Siri voice for voice over
> 
> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very
> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But
> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be
> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on
> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of
> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice,
> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try
> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you
> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss,
> give it a try.
> Sent from my iPhone
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RE: Siri voice for voice over

[Myrna Votta]

Since I have an iPhone and and an iPad Air, I upgraded to IOS 9 on both 
devices.  I also chose the Siri enhanced US female voice for both of them.  
But, the strange thing is that, although both voices sound alike, their quality 
and intonation is very different.  When they read the home screens they read 
them alike, but, when I used them in the Kindle app, they were very different.  
Siri on my iPhone 6 had good intonation and was very expressive; however, on 
the iPad, she did not pronounce words as well and she did not pause after 
either a comma nor a period.  I wonder why there should be such a difference 
between Siri on the iPhone and Siri on the iPad?

Myrna

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Andrew Lamanche
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 12:28 PM
To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over

Ah, thanks a lot.  That explains it because they are certainly not available 
where you've just pointed me to.

Thanks

Andrew
> On 21 Sep 2015, at 14:26, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
> 
> If it could they would be available if you to to Settings > Accessibility > 
> Voiceover > Speech > Default Dialect. If they are not there then like Alex 
> the SIRI voices are most likely only available on 64 Bit devices which the 
> iPhone 5 and 5C are not. The oldest device where this would be available 
> would be the 5S, also the 6 and 6 Plus and, of course, the new 6S and 6S Plus 
> which are available this Friday.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On 
> Behalf Of Andrew Lamanche
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 5:57 AM
> To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over
> 
> Hi Shawn,
> 
> I have upgraded to iOS9 on iphone 5C.  Does this also make it possible to use 
> siri voice as the default voice for VoiceOver?  I've looked under speech in 
> accessibility in settings and also under siri but I can't see an option to do 
> this.  Maybe iphone 5C is not capable to utilise siri voice as VoiceOver 
> voice.  
> 
> Andrew
>> On 21 Sep 2015, at 01:40, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Did you configure the Siri voices to work with your default dialect or did 
>> you use a secondary language for it? Also, check if you downloaded them 
>> through the speech setting by itself in accessibility. I saw someone did 
>> that and wondered why it wasn't working for them but then they realized that 
>> they downloaded it in the wrong place so it wasn't showing up in Voiceover.
>> 
>> Shawn
>> Sent From My White MacBook
>> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
>> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
>> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
>> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
>> 
>>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:46 PM, DJ <grou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I can't get the siri voices to work for VO on my 5.  It let's me 
>>> select them, but even after they download they still won't talk.  It 
>>> still uses Samantha voice.  Oh well.
>>> 
>>> DJ
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On 
>>> Behalf Of Mary Otten
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 9:25 PM
>>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>>> Subject: Siri voice for voice over
>>> 
>>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and 
>>> lines. But just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which 
>>> will soon be replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one 
>>> out to me.
>>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle 
>>> books on the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the 
>>> android version of Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between 
>>> lines with that same voice, Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. 
>>> And I think I'm going to really try to live with it. It is certainly 
>>> better than Samantha. So for those of you who don't care for 
>>> Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, give it a try.
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Shawn Krasniuk]

Yeah I like the Siri voices for Voiceover too. I alternate between Gordon, the 
Australian male Siri voice and Martha, the British female Siri voice. I don't 
really care for the American siri voices, Aaron and Nicky, because Nicky has 
lost her inflection she had in previous iOS versions and Aaron kinda reminds me 
of Neospeech Paul.

Shawn
Sent From My White MacBook
Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com

> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mary Otten  wrote:
> 
> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very unhappy, 
> because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But just 
> recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be replaced 
> with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try to 
> live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you who 
> don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, give it 
> a try.
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[christopher hallsworth]

Right. Can I ask, how the hell do you know the names of the Siri voices? 
Because on my iOS devides at least, all I get is "Siri Male", "Siri Female" etc.
> On 20 Sep 2015, at 07:26, Shawn Krasniuk  wrote:
> 
> Yeah I like the Siri voices for Voiceover too. I alternate between Gordon, 
> the Australian male Siri voice and Martha, the British female Siri voice. I 
> don't really care for the American siri voices, Aaron and Nicky, because 
> Nicky has lost her inflection she had in previous iOS versions and Aaron 
> kinda reminds me of Neospeech Paul.
> 
> Shawn
> Sent From My White MacBook
> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
> 
>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mary Otten  wrote:
>> 
>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But 
>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try 
>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you 
>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, 
>> give it a try.
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Shawn Krasniuk]

I know the names of the voices because you can use them with NVDA. That's why I 
wish Apple would release them for OS X but that's a different topic for a 
different list.

Shawn
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> On Sep 20, 2015, at 2:05 AM, christopher hallsworth  
> wrote:
> 
> Right. Can I ask, how the hell do you know the names of the Siri voices? 
> Because on my iOS devides at least, all I get is "Siri Male", "Siri Female" 
> etc.
>> On 20 Sep 2015, at 07:26, Shawn Krasniuk  wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah I like the Siri voices for Voiceover too. I alternate between Gordon, 
>> the Australian male Siri voice and Martha, the British female Siri voice. I 
>> don't really care for the American siri voices, Aaron and Nicky, because 
>> Nicky has lost her inflection she had in previous iOS versions and Aaron 
>> kinda reminds me of Neospeech Paul.
>> 
>> Shawn
>> Sent From My White MacBook
>> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
>> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
>> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
>> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
>> 
>>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mary Otten  wrote:
>>> 
>>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But 
>>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
>>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
>>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
>>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
>>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try 
>>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you 
>>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, 
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RE: Siri voice for voice over

[Richard Turner]

For what it is worth, here is an interview from just before the iPhone 5 was 
released on  YouTube with Karen Jacobson, the source for the Australian Female 
voice named Karen on iPHones and GPS systems around the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z5XYvtP04M

Richard


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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 9:33 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Siri voice for voice over

Glad I read your message first, I was about to write one along the same lines, 
then I cancelled it because I thought why add more traffic to the list, but 
after I read your message I thought I also ask. I even Googled this and found 
references as to the real people whose voices are behind SIRI, e.g. the female 
US SIRI voice is based on Susan Bennett, but I didn't come across Aaron and 
Nicky anywhere.

Regards,
Sieghard 

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
christopher hallsworth
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 12:05 AM
To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over

Right. Can I ask, how the hell do you know the names of the Siri voices? 
Because on my iOS devides at least, all I get is "Siri Male", "Siri Female" etc.
> On 20 Sep 2015, at 07:26, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah I like the Siri voices for Voiceover too. I alternate between Gordon, 
> the Australian male Siri voice and Martha, the British female Siri voice. I 
> don't really care for the American siri voices, Aaron and Nicky, because 
> Nicky has lost her inflection she had in previous iOS versions and Aaron 
> kinda reminds me of Neospeech Paul.
> 
> Shawn
> Sent From My White MacBook
> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
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> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
> 
>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But 
>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try 
>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you 
>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, 
>> give it a try.
>> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Alan Paganelli]

Wow, I feel sorry for her husband.  Can you picture asking your phone a 
question and it's your wife who replies and everybody and their sister is 
talking to your wife!  I've heard some of the NLS talking book narrators 
speaking normally and it's pretty wird.  I think the recording I have is of 
Jack Fox. So I can picture iPhone sounding like Susan as a real person.


Alan

Sent from my iPad Air

> On Sep 20, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
> 
> Glad I read your message first, I was about to write one along the same 
> lines, then I cancelled it because I thought why add more traffic to the 
> list, but after I read your message I thought I also ask. I even Googled this 
> and found references as to the real people whose voices are behind SIRI, e.g. 
> the female US SIRI voice is based on Susan Bennett, but I didn't come across 
> Aaron and Nicky anywhere.
> 
> Regards,
> Sieghard 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> christopher hallsworth
> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 12:05 AM
> To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over
> 
> Right. Can I ask, how the hell do you know the names of the Siri voices? 
> Because on my iOS devides at least, all I get is "Siri Male", "Siri Female" 
> etc.
>> On 20 Sep 2015, at 07:26, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah I like the Siri voices for Voiceover too. I alternate between Gordon, 
>> the Australian male Siri voice and Martha, the British female Siri voice. I 
>> don't really care for the American siri voices, Aaron and Nicky, because 
>> Nicky has lost her inflection she had in previous iOS versions and Aaron 
>> kinda reminds me of Neospeech Paul.
>> 
>> Shawn
>> Sent From My White MacBook
>> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
>> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
>> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
>> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
>> 
>>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But 
>>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
>>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
>>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
>>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
>>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try 
>>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you 
>>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, 
>>> give it a try.
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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RE: Siri voice for voice over

[DJ]

I can't get the siri voices to work for VO on my 5.  It let's me select
them, but even after they download they still won't talk.  It still uses
Samantha voice.  Oh well.

DJ 

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Of Mary Otten
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 9:25 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Siri voice for voice over

I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very
unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But
just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be
replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on
the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of
Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice,
Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try
to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you
who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss,
give it a try.
Sent from my iPhone

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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Shawn Krasniuk]

Did you configure the Siri voices to work with your default dialect or did you 
use a secondary language for it? Also, check if you downloaded them through the 
speech setting by itself in accessibility. I saw someone did that and wondered 
why it wasn't working for them but then they realized that they downloaded it 
in the wrong place so it wasn't showing up in Voiceover.

Shawn
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> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:46 PM, DJ  wrote:
> 
> I can't get the siri voices to work for VO on my 5.  It let's me select
> them, but even after they download they still won't talk.  It still uses
> Samantha voice.  Oh well.
> 
> DJ 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Mary Otten
> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 9:25 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Siri voice for voice over
> 
> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very
> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But
> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be
> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on
> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of
> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice,
> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try
> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you
> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss,
> give it a try.
> Sent from my iPhone
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RE: Siri voice for voice over

[Alex Stone]

Richard, I heard this at the time, it was excellent. For me, she's still the 
best voice, Alex doesn't do it for me.

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Richard Turner
Sent: 20 September 2015 19:22
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Siri voice for voice over

For what it is worth, here is an interview from just before the iPhone 5 was 
released on  YouTube with Karen Jacobson, the source for the Australian Female 
voice named Karen on iPHones and GPS systems around the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z5XYvtP04M

Richard


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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 9:33 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Siri voice for voice over

Glad I read your message first, I was about to write one along the same lines, 
then I cancelled it because I thought why add more traffic to the list, but 
after I read your message I thought I also ask. I even Googled this and found 
references as to the real people whose voices are behind SIRI, e.g. the female 
US SIRI voice is based on Susan Bennett, but I didn't come across Aaron and 
Nicky anywhere.

Regards,
Sieghard 

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
christopher hallsworth
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 12:05 AM
To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over

Right. Can I ask, how the hell do you know the names of the Siri voices? 
Because on my iOS devides at least, all I get is "Siri Male", "Siri Female" etc.
> On 20 Sep 2015, at 07:26, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah I like the Siri voices for Voiceover too. I alternate between Gordon, 
> the Australian male Siri voice and Martha, the British female Siri voice. I 
> don't really care for the American siri voices, Aaron and Nicky, because 
> Nicky has lost her inflection she had in previous iOS versions and Aaron 
> kinda reminds me of Neospeech Paul.
> 
> Shawn
> Sent From My White MacBook
> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
> 
>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But 
>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try 
>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you 
>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, 
>> give it a try.
>> Sent from my iPhone
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RE: Siri voice for voice over

[Sieghard Weitzel]

Glad I read your message first, I was about to write one along the same lines, 
then I cancelled it because I thought why add more traffic to the list, but 
after I read your message I thought I also ask. I even Googled this and found 
references as to the real people whose voices are behind SIRI, e.g. the female 
US SIRI voice is based on Susan Bennett, but I didn't come across Aaron and 
Nicky anywhere.

Regards,
Sieghard 

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
christopher hallsworth
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 12:05 AM
To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over

Right. Can I ask, how the hell do you know the names of the Siri voices? 
Because on my iOS devides at least, all I get is "Siri Male", "Siri Female" etc.
> On 20 Sep 2015, at 07:26, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah I like the Siri voices for Voiceover too. I alternate between Gordon, 
> the Australian male Siri voice and Martha, the British female Siri voice. I 
> don't really care for the American siri voices, Aaron and Nicky, because 
> Nicky has lost her inflection she had in previous iOS versions and Aaron 
> kinda reminds me of Neospeech Paul.
> 
> Shawn
> Sent From My White MacBook
> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
> 
>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But 
>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try 
>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you 
>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, 
>> give it a try.
>> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Shawn Krasniuk]

That's because Aaron and Nicky are the new Siri voices and Susan Bennett was 
the old voice of Siri but still is the voice of Samantha.

Shawn
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> On Sep 20, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
> 
> Glad I read your message first, I was about to write one along the same 
> lines, then I cancelled it because I thought why add more traffic to the 
> list, but after I read your message I thought I also ask. I even Googled this 
> and found references as to the real people whose voices are behind SIRI, e.g. 
> the female US SIRI voice is based on Susan Bennett, but I didn't come across 
> Aaron and Nicky anywhere.
> 
> Regards,
> Sieghard 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> christopher hallsworth
> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 12:05 AM
> To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over
> 
> Right. Can I ask, how the hell do you know the names of the Siri voices? 
> Because on my iOS devides at least, all I get is "Siri Male", "Siri Female" 
> etc.
>> On 20 Sep 2015, at 07:26, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah I like the Siri voices for Voiceover too. I alternate between Gordon, 
>> the Australian male Siri voice and Martha, the British female Siri voice. I 
>> don't really care for the American siri voices, Aaron and Nicky, because 
>> Nicky has lost her inflection she had in previous iOS versions and Aaron 
>> kinda reminds me of Neospeech Paul.
>> 
>> Shawn
>> Sent From My White MacBook
>> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
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>> 
>>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But 
>>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
>>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
>>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
>>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
>>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try 
>>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you 
>>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, 
>>> give it a try.
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Shawn Krasniuk]

Yes these voices are indeed made by Nuance. The names of the new Siri voices 
for English are Nicky and Aaron, US English, Gordon and Catherine, Australian 
English, and Martha and Arthur for British English. I don't think they made new 
voices for other languages so whatever foreign voice you have for Voiceover 
will be your Siri voice as well.

Shawn
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> On Sep 20, 2015, at 10:47 AM, 'Olga Koeva' via VIPhone 
> <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> 
>   Hi Shawn!
>  What's the name of these siri Voices and which company has produced them (I 
> mean the English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese siri voices).
>  Best regards,
>Olya
> 
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] Im Auftrag 
> von Shawn Krasniuk
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. September 2015 10:59
> An: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Betreff: Re: Siri voice for voice over
> 
> I know the names of the voices because you can use them with NVDA. That's why 
> I wish Apple would release them for OS X but that's a different topic for a 
> different list.
> 
> Shawn
> Sent From My White MacBook
> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
> 
>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 2:05 AM, christopher hallsworth 
>> <challswor...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Right. Can I ask, how the hell do you know the names of the Siri voices? 
>> Because on my iOS devides at least, all I get is "Siri Male", "Siri Female" 
>> etc.
>>> On 20 Sep 2015, at 07:26, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yeah I like the Siri voices for Voiceover too. I alternate between Gordon, 
>>> the Australian male Siri voice and Martha, the British female Siri voice. I 
>>> don't really care for the American siri voices, Aaron and Nicky, because 
>>> Nicky has lost her inflection she had in previous iOS versions and Aaron 
>>> kinda reminds me of Neospeech Paul.
>>> 
>>> Shawn
>>> Sent From My White MacBook
>>> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
>>> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
>>> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
>>> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>>>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. 
>>>> But just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
>>>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>>>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books 
>>>> on the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
>>>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same 
>>>> voice, Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to 
>>>> really try to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for 
>>>> those of you who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than 
>>>> the four ss, give it a try.
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
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Re: Siri voice for voice over

[Gmail]

I thought Susan Bennett was the real person behind the Samantha boys.


Thanks,
Ari

> On Sep 20, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
> 
> Glad I read your message first, I was about to write one along the same 
> lines, then I cancelled it because I thought why add more traffic to the 
> list, but after I read your message I thought I also ask. I even Googled this 
> and found references as to the real people whose voices are behind SIRI, e.g. 
> the female US SIRI voice is based on Susan Bennett, but I didn't come across 
> Aaron and Nicky anywhere.
> 
> Regards,
> Sieghard 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> christopher hallsworth
> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 12:05 AM
> To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Siri voice for voice over
> 
> Right. Can I ask, how the hell do you know the names of the Siri voices? 
> Because on my iOS devides at least, all I get is "Siri Male", "Siri Female" 
> etc.
>> On 20 Sep 2015, at 07:26, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah I like the Siri voices for Voiceover too. I alternate between Gordon, 
>> the Australian male Siri voice and Martha, the British female Siri voice. I 
>> don't really care for the American siri voices, Aaron and Nicky, because 
>> Nicky has lost her inflection she had in previous iOS versions and Aaron 
>> kinda reminds me of Neospeech Paul.
>> 
>> Shawn
>> Sent From My White MacBook
>> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk
>> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs
>> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper
>> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com
>> 
>>> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I first upgraded my for S. And I tried both Siri voices and was very 
>>> unhappy, because of the really long pauses between sentences and lines. But 
>>> just recently, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 5S, which will soon be 
>>> replaced with a 6S, whenever T-Mobile gets them in ships one out to me.
>>> Since my favorite female voice is not available for reading Kindle books on 
>>> the iPhone, and since they have screwed it up on the android version of 
>>> Kendall, where you get unnatural pauses between lines with that same voice, 
>>> Kendra, I tried the Siri female voice. And I think I'm going to really try 
>>> to live with it. It is certainly better than Samantha. So for those of you 
>>> who don't care for Samantha, and have something faster than the four ss, 
>>> give it a try.
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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