Go to Voiceover Settings > Speech, then under the "Rotor Languages" heading tap 
on "Add New Language".


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Kimber Gardner
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 11:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Siri Issue

Hi Sieghard,

I'd like to try adding female siri to my roto as a second choice. For whatever 
reason I can't seem to figure out how to do that. Would you step me through it?

Thanks,
Kimber

On 9/21/17, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kimber, I also prefer Eloquence on my computers and use Samantha on my 
> iPhone for the day-to-day stuff, but at normal human speaking rate I 
> have not yet met anybody except maybe Karla who was not very impressed 
> with this new female SIRI voice and I still don't know if Karla set 
> her as the Voiceover voice as you did and cranked up the volume. I 
> could also not stand her in that situation.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Kimber Gardner
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:52 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Siri Issue
>
> Ha, I thought I was the only one who didn't like the new siri voice. I 
> usually keep the rate set to 70% and I didn't care for her at all. I 
> kept her around for a day, thinking I might get used to her, but this 
> morning I went back to my compact Samantha. Of course I prefer 
> Eloquence on my laptop so go figure.
>
> On 9/21/17, Carla <[email protected]> wrote:
>> OK what do you have your speech rate set to.  Man she sounds like a 
>> cackally witch to me!  Lol!
>>
>>
>>
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
>> Behalf Of Rick Alfaro
>> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 6:25 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: Siri Issue
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel
>> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:11 AM
>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> 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: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Turner
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8:23 PM
>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: Siri Issue
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]> > 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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