Hi Siegard, FYI, the Apple rep I spoke with said that loss of speech in VoiceOver is now considered a known problem with IOS 11 (they have many reports), but he did not know the cause or fix.
I changed voices and it stopped happening to me. Chip -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 5:29 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: ... DIFFICULTIES WITH INCREASING LACK OF SPEECH FROM PHONE RESULTING IN TOTAL FAILURE OF 6SE Hi Carol, I know this may not be of much help, but for whatever it is worth I have absolutely no issues with Voiceover disappearing on my 6S Plus, it wasn't a concern in iOS 10 and it is not a concern in iOS 11. OK, after the update Voiceover was gone once, but it was simply a volume issue and pressing the volume up button 5 or 6 times brought the volume level back up and it hasn't happened since. It really does seem like people who set a SIRI voice as their default voice have problems with this, I suggest you set another voice as your default and if you want to use SIRI, add that as a rotor language. You can then switch to it by turning your rotor to Languages and flick up or down. I have done this with the new american femal SIRI voice because she does sound veryt nice although she is too slow for me for every-day use. But I do like her for reading maybe news articles and so on and once I select her she stays selected until I go back to my default. She even stays selected if you turn Voiceover off and back on, I assume completely rebooting the phone may reset the voice to your default, but I only reboot my phone maybe once a month so that wouldn't bother me too much. I assume you tried this, but have you plugged I n the Earpods or another wired headset to see if there is sound? Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:48 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: ... DIFFICULTIES WITH INCREASING LACK OF SPEECH FROM PHONE RESULTING IN TOTAL FAILURE OF 6SE I upgraded to iOS11 last night and certainly shouldn't have done so. I felt too tired and weary to battle with iTunes (my dreaded hate) so decided to do without since I've never been locked out with the over the air download. It went well and I was back in successfully, having got rather bogged down with all the prelimnaries and did in fact set up the UK Siri female voice which was working OK for the short time I used it. I decided to have another go at the Touch ID as I was setting up but still didn't get more than a couple of prints accepted. (I never can!) I gave it up and, very soon after this, came the problem! I lost all speech (as I have several times lately) and *before* moving to iOS11! I have always eventually got in after these occasions, but sometimes it's taxed me when it comes to get VO to be turned on/off in appropriate places and correctly and the odd wrestle with volumes also! I have not been in a position to take my phone into the store and of course couldn't choose to stop using it ... I tried recovery mode eventually without success and so I moved to the other computer in the house, installed iTunes and tried again! (Silly girl!) This time my (still dead) iPhone 6 did sort of work in that it offered to download my music from the phone to the new iTunes on the second computer! Great! I thought that at least I'd have something I could use to salvich some of the messs! However, I still couldn't get any speech and, because I know I have to just wait Apple's help to do anything further, I thought at the very least I'd best check up just how many folk have wrestled with intermittent and ever increasing voice loss even before iOS11? In fact, it's probably best if you have that you go directly to Apple to alert them, as I shall do just as soon as I have enough things sorted to be able to do that! Before you all offer suggestions as to how I might manage to get back in, let me just say that I am pretty sure I have exhausted everyone for one reason or another. In fact, I could well have made more progress if the 4S had a sim installed so I could make calls, retrieve forgotten information etc, but I'm not any good at changing sims so this must wait at least until tomorrow and, again, my only reason for writing this was not to expect anyone to be trying to find things I haven't done (or can't anyway) but to suggest that all those who have experienced anything like a part of this problem with VO dying should just let Apple know about it before you crash also! I am beginning to think that some of this iPhone stuff is just getting too complicated for me now! Problem is, I can't do without it! <Smile> Thanks to those who have read to the end! -- Carol P -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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