Hi Janet, Yes the voices can be removed, read the notes below to learn how.
Note: If you only use the Siri voice for Siri the voices are not downloaded, they work from the Internet. But, if you want to listen to or use the voices for voice over, the voices have to be downloaded to the device. I did not know this until I downloaded all of them to listen to, from with in voice-over settings. Original Message From: Loy IOS 14.5 has 4 Siri voices with no description of what kind of voice they are. So I downloaded all 4 to test them. Now I would like to delete the ones I don't like, but I can't find a way to do this. Anyone know how? Loy From: Dominique Farrell When this happened to me after I downloaded two Irish Siri Voices to listen to, and then I wanted to delete one of them, and only have the one Voice for VoiceOver & Siri, Apple advised me to go to “LANGUAGE & REGION” in “SETTINGS & GENERAL” and then change the region from your region to another one, and then go back into “VOICEOVER VOICES” and you can then delete the individual voices. After deleting the voices, go back into “LANGUAGE & REGION” again, and select your chosen region to be saved. Steps below: To delete unwanted Siri voices do the following: list of 7 items 1. Go to “SETTINGS and double tap on it. 2. Swipe to “GENERAL” and double tap. 3. Go to “LANGUAGE & REGION” and double tap. 4. Change your default region to another one and double tap on change to whatever one you’ve chosen. 5. Go to “VOICEOVER & Voices” and double tap on the voice that’s selected. 6. Swipe to the voices you wish to delete and swipe up with one finger to delete and double tap. 7. Go back into “LANGUAGE & REGION” again and select your default region from the list of regions and double tap on it. list end This will delete all Siri voices that you don’t want. Dominique From: Mike B Hi Dominique, Well I thank you very much, this worked like a charm. It's relatively simple as well. For others that would like to remove the new Siri voices, and maybe others, but I'm not sure, try the following: Note: I use US English, so make sure you choose a region whose language or dialect you'll understand! 1. Go to Settings / General / Language and Region and do a single finger double tap to open. 2. Swipe to, Region, and do a single finger double tap to open. 3. Find your region and do a single finger double tap to select. You'll get a confirmation dialogue asking if you're sure you want to change, so single finger tap the, Change to..., region option. You might or might not get a message stating that your iPhone will restart and it only takes a second or 2. 4. Now go to, Accessibility / Voiceover / Speech, and delete the voices you want removed. 5. Now repeat steps 1 thru 3, but selecting your original region. Stay safe and take care. Mike. ----- Original Message ----- From: janet gross To: 'viphone@googlegroups.com' Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2021 6:14 PM Subject: FW: Removing Selected Items From The Rotor Help Please. From: janet gross Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2021 10:08 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Removing Selected Items From The Rotor Help Please. Hi Richard, I’ve been trying to delete the voices I don’t want, but the phone will not even let me do that! According to Apple, we can’t delete any voice that is region specific to ones region that we have already downloaded! I don’t believe that! Apple says the only choice I have is to do a network reset, and that’s not very encouraging! LOL! I see in the language and region option, Australia is set as my default, and no matter how I try to change back to my US American as my default, again, the phone won’t let me do that. Having said all this, chances are I will probably have to do the network reset. You know Richard, my phone xr10 was working fine, until this ….. update iOS 14.5. The native weather app is no good now either, and I used to use that weather app everyday to check the weather, but I think it is giving me the weather conditions for Australia, as well as the time. For an example the weather app is telling me today is Sunday April 29-2021 at 12:34 AM, and the weather is 6 degrees. I’m in the US and the temperature is in the 60’s time is 9:59 PM! Thank you so much for all your help as it is appreciated. Janet LOL! From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 10:40 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Removing Selected Items From The Rotor Help Please. If you do not want those rotor languages, flick up to delete and double tap. You do not need other languages/voices unless you want them. The only one you need is under speech, voice. Richard "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt www.turner42.com On Apr 30, 2021, at 8:07 PM, janet gross <janet.harv...@outlook.com> wrote: Richard, Ok under rotor languages, it says English Australia Karen button actions available button, under that it says English US Samantha button actions available, under that it says add new languages. I double tap on US Samantha, and it says selected. I already turned off the language detection option a couple of days ago. Janet From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 8:16 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Removing Selected Items From The Rotor Help Please. One thing to remember, Apple uses the word language, to also refer to voices. It sounds like you have at least two other voices set. Also, unless you turn it off under VoiceOver speech settings, when using the default voice if another language is encountered on the web or even in an email, VoiceOver will automatically switch voices. Open VoiceOver, speech, and go down to rotor languages and see what you have there. In that same area of the settings, speech, before the rotor languages is an item called, DetectLanguages that you want to say Off. Richard "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt www.turner42.com On Apr 30, 2021, at 5:32 PM, janet gross <janet.harv...@outlook.com> wrote: Hi Richard, I only have the one language as my default. I’ve never added language to the rotor either. Although, in the rotor a female’s voice says English default, I swipe up again, then a male’s voice says Australia, I swipe up again then another female’s voice says US English. I think I made some kind of headway when I went in to the language and region settings though, because at least it now says in the rotor US English default instead of saying Australia default. Although, I went back in to the language and region settings, and the default was set to Australian. I selected English US as default, and I got a message saying if I select US English, this setting will restart my phone, I still selected the US English, but the phone didn’t restart, and I didn’t get any message to confirm this setting such as saving the setting, so I just closed it out. I went back and sure enough, US English is not set as my default though. Although now in the rotor I do hear the US language, but the two other languages are still there, and rather I’m reading the news, or just swiping the voices will suddenly change! I only know one language and that is US English, that is wy I wouldn’t have added language to the rotor. Apple says they haven’t heard anyone else talking about this issue that I’m having! Can you imagine! LOL! This isn’t good! Janet From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 7:03 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Removing Selected Items From The Rotor Help Please. You cannot remove language from the rotor, it appears if you have more than one language selected, that is, a rotor language as well as the default language. So, if you only have the default voice, my understanding is, you should not see Language in the rotor. Richard "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt www.turner42.com On Apr 30, 2021, at 4:38 PM, janet gross <janet.harv...@outlook.com> wrote: Hi Everyone, Ok, now I could have sworn I removed language from my Rotor, but now, it appears language is back on the rotor. I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with Apple, and I explained my issue I was having with my phone in which I downloaded Siri 4 after updating to iOS 14.5, and I couldn't get rid of her, and I couldn't seem to understand quite a bit of what she was saying, so now, I did get my voiceover default Samantha back. My question is how can I remove the language from my rotor as this keeps changing voices? In my rotor when I flick up, voiceover reads Australia default, I flick up again voiceover reads something else I don't understand, I flick up again, voiceover reads English. I went in to the rotors settings, and I see language is selected and it shows dim. I double tap to deselect language, but it still shows selected-dim. I flick up, voiceover reads move down, I flic up again voiceover reads move up, I flick up again voiceover reads activate default. The language is still in my rotor. I restart my phone, but then another language comes up when the phone comes on. 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