Have you also changed to Australian in Settings > General > International > format region? You have to do this. If you hear no difference either they don't sound different to you or the hq voice is not yet downloaded. I don't think there's anything that confirms to you that the hq voice is downloaded except the difference in sound.
-- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Sep 27, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Suzanne Wilson <suzannemwil...@comcast.net> wrote: > 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. > > > > -- > Cheryl > > May the words of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, Lord, > my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > > > > 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. >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> May the words of my mouth >> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Cheryl >>>> >>>> May the words of my mouth >>>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>>> Google Group. >>>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>>> Google >>>>> Group. >>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>>> Google Group. >>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>> Google >>>> Group. >>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Follow me on Twitter at: >>> www.twitter.com/wcmerritt >>> My websites: >>> www.wayneism.com >>> www.whitecaneday.org >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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