Also Sieghard, didn't they stop using the voice we know as Samantha for Siri in iOS 7? This also confuses me as that's what I was lead to believe. Apple introduced the Siri voices we know now at the WWDC event that introduced iOS 7 and therefore stopped using voices like Samantha. Is this correct?
Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime: [email protected] > On Oct 25, 2015, at 10:52 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ari, > > I think you are confusing SIRI and Voiceover. In iOS 9 you can use either the > US male or female SIRI voice as your Voiceover language instead of the > default female voice in either compact or high quality (Samantha). > Selecting which voice is being used for SIRI is, of course, in Settings > > General > SIRI. > Selecting which voice you want to use for Voiceover is in Settings > General > > Accessibility > Voiceover > Speech. Here you can change the default voice > by tapping on Default Dialect or you can add another language, select US > English and then choose a voice other than hat you use for the default > dialect. For example, if you use Samantha High Quality as default, you could > select either the female SIRI, male SIRI or alex voice to use as an > alternative. > Once set up, all you have to do is turn the rotor to Language and flick up or > down to select the other voice. Of course you can also add even more > languages either if you are bilingual and need another language (for me this > would be German) or you could add more English voices like English UK or > English Australia. In any of them you now have the option to use either the > compact or high quality default voice for that language or any available SIRI > voices. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2015 3:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Siri keeps reverting to using Samantha instead of the new female > US English Siri voice in iOS 8. > > It's working again. The gender options showed up. Female was selected, but I > double-tapped on it again, just to make sure. Go figure. This is so strange! > > > Thanks, > Ari > >> On Oct 24, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Rajmund <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> What happens if you go right below language? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: [email protected] >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Date: Saturday, October 24, 2015 11:01 pm >> Subject: Re: Siri keeps reverting to using Samantha instead of the new >> female US English Siri voice in iOS 8. >> >>> >>> >>> So, I connected to Wi-Fi, and still didn't see the options for the new >>> voices. I turned off the phone and turned it back on again, and I'm still >>> not seeing those voices. Any advice? I don't want to turn ffn Siri and turn >>> it back on again, because I don't want to lose all the settings I have set >>> for Siri, along with the song history from Siri. >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ari >>> >>>> On Oct 24, 2015, at 2:01 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Are you connected to Wi-Fi? >>>> >>>> It won't download the voice unless you are connected to Wi-Fi. >>>> >>>> Richard >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>>> Of [email protected] >>>> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2015 1:51 PM >>>> To: VIPhone Email List <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Siri keeps reverting to using Samantha instead of the new female >>>> US English Siri voice in iOS 8. >>>> >>>> I've managed to make Sire use the new US English female voice again, but >>>> it's regerted back to using Samantha ... again. I haven't touched Siri >>>> settings, except to put things back to the way I'd had them set before, >>>> but it's gone back to using Samantha once more. I haven't done anything to >>>> it. I used Siri yesterday, and everything was fine. I used Siri today, and >>>> boom. Back to using Samantha. What the heck is going on here? >>>> >>>> I tried to set Siri back to using the new US English female voice, and I >>>> don't even see that as an option. I goto Settings/General/Siri/Language, >>>> and double-tapped on English, United States, and all that did was select >>>> that language; there were no voice choices that popped up when I >>>> double-tapped on that. 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