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
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> 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-----
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> [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. Am I doing something wrong?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ari
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