Hi,

I have the Australian voice selected in my language rotor and hear no 
difference when I toggle the compact voice onn and off.  How do I know if I 
have actually downloaded the premium voice?

Suzanne

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cheryl Homiak 
  To: viphone@googlegroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 8:56 AM
  Subject: Re: Using the Australian voice as default


  You can get the Australian voice immediately by changing the voice in 
settings > General > International > format region, but the voice will be the 
compact one so turning compact voice off and on will show no change in the 
voice you hear though it will now be Australian. So Australian will be your 
default at that point but you will only be able to access the compact voice 
until the hq voice downloads. Also, even if Australian is default, if you set 
another voice in the language rotor, you will of course hear that voice but it 
won't become the default.


  Hope this helps.






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  On Sep 27, 2012, at 7:48 AM, "reggie.alvar...@gmail.com" 
<reggie.alvar...@gmail.com> wrote:


    Cheryl,, how do you get default voice immediately? Don't you have to wait 
for the Australian Karen to download?

    Reggie and Brooks



    On Sep 27, 2012, at 12:07 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cahom...@gmail.com> wrote:


    Because just choosing the Australian voice in the rotor only gives the 
compact voice which, at lleast to my ears, has a hissing or white noise sound 
as she starts or stops speaking. The only way to get the hq voice is to make it 
the default so that the Australian hq voice replaces the hq voice for your 
former default.

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    Cheryl


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    and the meditation of my heart
    be acceptable to You, Lord,
    my rock and my Redeemer.
    (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)





    On Sep 26, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Wayne Merritt <wcmerr...@gmail.com> wrote:


      I just read the last 2 messages in this thread, so pardon me if I
      cover something already mentioned. If people like karen so much, why
      not just add her to the Language Rodar in VO settings, and then switch
      to her whenever you like? Why go through the bother of changing the
      international settings and having to download the HQ version of karen,
      and then perhaps having to get the HQ version of the US voice again? I
      suppose to each their own, but it seems easier to me to add Karen to
      the language rodar and then I can have a choice of when I want to use
      her. Before iOS 5, I used karen for my main voice in VO. Since iOS 5
      though, the US voice has gotten a lot better, IMO. Karen is still an
      option on my language rodar settings, should I want her at any point,
      but I'm back to the good old US of A voice. Incidentally, I also like
      the Irish English voice, and she also holds a place on my language
      rodar, grin.

      Jmt,
      Wayne

      On 9/26/12, Cheryl Homiak <cahom...@gmail.com> wrote:

        Yes, you can use Karen. But you have to go into settings > general >
        international > rformat region and choose Australia there. Then if you 
want
        the hq voice rather than the compact voice, you will have to be patient
        because it doesn't download the hq voice right away apparently. I ended 
up
        resetting my phone but it sounds like if you just give it time and maybe
        even lock the screen and put it on your charger for a while, the hq 
voice
        should eventually download. I haven't had any issues with having 
Australia
        chosen in Format Region except that siri has given me a couple of 
pieces of
        data in kilometers. But somebody said weather was in Celcius; that 
hasn't
        happened to me however. Just keep in mind that if you switch back the hq
        Samantha has tao download again so you have to wait for that to happen.
        Personally I plan to stick with Karen unless I uncover a major problem
        caused by using her.



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        and the meditation of my heart
        be acceptable to You, Lord,
        my rock and my Redeemer.
        (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)



        On Sep 26, 2012, at 6:40 PM, "Joe" <jsoro...@gmail.com> wrote:


          Just to be sure, I can't use Karen in the United States, right? The HQ
          Australian chick? Samantha's okay, but Karen's smoother on the ears, 
not
          unlike her grumpier sister. Thanks foor the info.--Joe

          -----Original Message-----
          From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
          Behalf
          Of David Chittenden
          Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:10 AM
          To: viphone@googlegroups.com
          Subject: Re: Using the Australian voice as default

          The problem is that each HQ voice is a couple hundred MB. If a person 
is
          running an 8 GB iOS device, the memory would fill up with just the HQ
          voices
          very quickly.

          It would be nice if Apple would allow us to select multiple voices, 
but
          this
          is not the case currently.


          David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
          Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
          Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
          Sent from my iPhone

          On 26/09/2012, at 15:54, Victor Marques <victormarques0...@gmail.com>
          wrote:


            Hi all,
            I am using an ipod 4g so Siri differences in the region settings are
            not important to me. In fact, having my settings in metric is what I
            prefer anyway.
            I hope this is something that can be fixed in a future update,
            allowing more choice of voices and even hopefully more than one 
choice
            per region.
            Victor

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