I am fine with samantha's default voice. I can't deal with the high quality voice. It is terrible. Just use the default Samantha voice. Regards,
Cris -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christina C. Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 6:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mark on iOS 9.1, So Far Oh man, I just upgraded to iOS 9.1 yesterday from iOS 8. I absolutely cannot deal with this Samantha. I want to jump out of my chair. I tried the male Siri and he sounds absolutely awful. If I slow him way down, it sounds better but I can’t listen to news articles and such that slowly. I am soo frustrated. I have never had this problem before where I could not find a comfortable voice. Alex is way to scratchy for me. :( I’m stuck and wish I could get some of the voices from voice Dream reader on my phone. I also want to comment on something strange. I have had my keyboard shortcuts show up on a brand new iPhone that was not started from a backup. All I did was enter my apple ID and password and my keyboard shortcuts were in tact. This was on iOS 7. I remember very clearly being shocked that I did not need to re-create my keyboard shortcuts. I have not experimented with this strange thing on iOS 8 or 9 though. Christina > On Oct 22, 2015, at 1:20 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > Well, last night, I finally installed iOS 9.1 on my 6 Plus. > > For me, there are no proverbial show-stoppers. > > 1. > However, given that I have been in an ongoing dialog with Apple > engineers, I am a little disappointed that the camera app zoom > VoiceOver bug still persist. However, on a positive note, at least, > enabling VoiceOver, after zooming in on an image, no longer cancels the zoom. > Baby steps, eh? > (smile). > > 2. > I am surprised at how much I miss having the time announced when > waking the phone. > > 3. > Perhaps it's just me but I swear the quality of Samantha has been > greatly degraded in this version. I just don't understand why, with > every major release since iOS 6.x, the quality of Samantha has been steadily > declining. > Of course, this is just my opinion. What I do find interesting is > that Samantha's pronunciation of words that were absolutely correct in > iOS 8, has been changed and are now incorrect in iOS 9.1. > > In iOS 8.x, I found the high quality version of the Samantha voice > somewhat pleasant, in iOS 9.x, I find it unsettling, to say the least. > I cannot imagine having the current Samantha voice reading long > stretches of texts, whereas in the previous iOS, this would not have > even been at issue. Is Apple trying to force everyone to Alex? (Yes, a > conspiracy theory). > (Smile). > > 4. > Also, the SMS Reply To dictation feedback problem is very, very annoying. > > For those who disagree, let me say that I respect your opinion. Also, > the feedback is not much of a problem if one dictates using either a > Bluetooth or wired headset. I suppose it is not much of an issue if > one only dictates > 1 or 2 words. However, if one attempts to dictate a full sentence, > then the feedback becomes problematic as a kind of feedback loop > ensues causing a great deal of random text to be inserted as Siri, > hearing VoiceOver, begins to dictate to itself. > > 5. > I know this comes up every time a new OS is released but it seems to > me as though my battery drains faster since updating from 8.x to 9.1. > I just turned off a lot of items that were active in the background > app refresh area so I'll see how it goes. However, I can tell you > that I updated a total of three 6 plus phones, yesterday, two from iOS > 9.0.2. Now, even though both of those two phones that were already > running 9.x, were plugged into an outlet at the time of the update, > via OTA, both had less charge after updating than they did, before the > update began. I've never seen such a thing before. > > 6. > As always, I have sent my findings to Apple. > > 7. > Finally, and I want to be clear on this: Updating the OS OTA > (over-the-air) is in no way the same as installing it from iTunes via > a USB cable. For whatever reason, there does seem to be a pattern of > more problems when going from iOS 8.x to 9.x via OTA. > > What is the difference between the OTA method and the iTunes method? > In short, updating OTA does not rewrite the file allocation table and > file structures, just for starters. When you update via iTunes, it is > as if you are doing a fresh install as all of the file tables and data > clusters are actually rewritten to the disk.. > > Want proof of this? No problem, here's how to verify the difference. > When you use the OTA method, you will notice that any custom keyboard > shortcuts you may have added remain, after the update. However, when > you update via iTunes, you will discover that only default keyboard > shortcuts exist, meaning you will have to rewrite your custom keyboard > shortcuts. > > I wish I could lay claim to having learned about the difference > between the two methods, independently but I was told of the > difference by a senior Apple iOS design engineer. > > I'll be honest, I have not used the iTunes method since the OTA option > became available but now that I have had several of my recent syncing > problems resolved after having used the iTunes method, I'll probably > use it from now on, when possible. > > Mark > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone 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 VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. 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