I have never had a problem with Samantha like her a lot more than
Alex. The new siri voice will have to try it with voice over. I just
need to remember how to setup that voice with vo.

On 9/21/17, Rick Alfaro <rick.alf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. Totally agree with you regarding the new Siri female voice. It isn’t the
> most responsive by a long shot but the most human sounding I’ve ever heard
> on an iPhone. Hopefully, responsiveness will improve. Despite the small lag,
> I still am keeping her as my default voice because she’s so pleasant to
> listen to. As you mentioned she’s the best at normal human speed.
>
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> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Sieghard Weitzel
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:11 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: Siri Issue
>
>
>
> That shows how subjective TTS voices sound to us. I always preferred
> Samantha for Voiceover, to me she sounds just fine and if you truly have
> downloaded the new female american SIRI voice then I really don’t understand
> where you get the witch thing because I think she is one of the best TTS
> voices I have ever heard. I don’t have an Amazon Echo, but from Podcasts I
> heard I thought Alexa also sounds extremely good, but this new SIRI voice is
> probably the most human sounding voice I have ever heard. I must add that
> she only sounds good at regular human speaking volume, if you download her
> for Voiceover and cranc up the volume it’s a different story, her kind of
> voice is not meant to speak fast.
>
> Unfortunately the next update won’t change things since I’m sure after the
> amount of money and effort Apple has gone through to come up with that voice
> they won’t go back to what she sounded like before.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Sieghard
>
>
>
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Turner
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8:23 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Siri Issue
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>
> I know people that never liked Samantha because they thought she always
> sounded angry. I usually use a male voice for Siri.
>
> I tried the new female Siri voice which I had to download and I thought she
> sounded a great deal better than Samantha.
>
> So, I have no idea what the issue is for you.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2017, at 7:59 PM, Carla <cd5...@comcast.net
> <mailto:cd5...@comcast.net> > wrote:
>
> Since doing the update I'm having a problem with Siri sounding kind of like
> a witch!  I have Samantha and her voice got higher and she sounds like a
> mean cacklly witch.  Have any of you experienced this sort of thing?  If so
> can I fix it or just wait for the next upgrade.
>
>
>
> Carla
>
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