Thank you all. I should have specified I am trying to use the current female 
Siri voice. Aron is good but is terrible with words having letter O in them. 
Especially, it destroys the word “books” very badly. In the word like “mostly” 
the “o” sound is doubled. I know you can manage pronunciation but when. A 
specific letter sound is coded in a certain way, not sure wha to do. Go back to 
samantha I guess. 


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> On May 5, 2019, at 3:19 AM, Nicola Sanders <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Just chiming in re the Siri voices: I believe that Aaron, and his female 
> counterpart Nicky, were the official US Siri voices prior to the latest 
> versions, which came out in either iOS 12 or 11, I can't remember which. 
> Nicky and Aaron, plus their equivalents in other languages, are available for 
> use in Voice Dream Reader, and I think this was also the case before they 
> were demoted from official Siri voice status. It's just the latest Siri 
> voices which Apple has not made available to third-party developers. So I 
> think Mary and Richard are both right: Aaron is now just another voice, but 
> he used to be a Siri voice and was available in VDR at the time.
> Sorry for the long message and please feel free to correct any unintentional 
> misinformation.
> All the best,
> Nicky, but not the former Siri voice, I'm afraid I sound far too British, LOL!
> 
> 
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>> On 5 May 2019, at 06:28, Joshua Hendrickson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I know all about Ivona Amy.  She is pretty good.  I think Ivona Sally
>> and Ivona Joey are also very nice.  I like Acapela Sharon, and Acapela
>> Laura as well.  I won't touch Ivona Kendra.  Some of the neospeech
>> voices like Bridget, Hugh, Paul, or Kate are also very good.
>> 
>>> On 5/4/19, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Interesting. Somebody told me that Aaron was the name of the male Siri
>>> voice. I don’t use it.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>>> On May 4, 2019, at 8:34 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Actualy, Aaron is just an iOS voice. Apple doesn't let third party
>>>> developers use the Siri voices for their apps.
>>>> James is from Neo Speech.
>>>> My personal favorite is Amy from Ivona, a British female voice.
>>>> James is my choice for a male American voice.
>>>> You will want to sample them and see what sounds good to you since voices
>>>> are so subjective.
>>>> HTH,
>>>> Richard
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>>> On May 4, 2019, at 8:22 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> If I’m not mistaken Aaron is a Siri voice. You can use all of the voices
>>>>> that voiceover has. You can also purchase other voices through voice
>>>>> dream. My personal favorites are James and Kendra. The latter is from
>>>>> Ivona, and the former is from Riehl speak I think. You can do all that
>>>>> under I think it’s called manage my voices. You can choose from iOS
>>>>> voices including the Siri ones, or you can buy voices from places like a
>>>>> cappella or Ivona etc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>>>>>> On May 4, 2019, at 7:45 PM, TaraPrakash <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi all.
>>>>>> Is it possible to get Siri voice when reading witth vdr?
>>>>>> And secondly,   among the available voices,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Which one is the more popular
>>>>>> I want to use different voices for fiction and nonfiction  currently my
>>>>>> default voice is Aron
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