I don't mind the novelty voices. I wouldn't use a lot of them, but having your phone kind of sing at you is kind of fun at least briefly.
On 9/13/22, Star Gazer <[email protected]> wrote: > Those nearly f**cked me yesterday, I clicked on > them thinking I'd still > get an understandable voice but no. I managed to scroll up and click on any > voice, I don't know or care which one and got it to talk in a way I could > understand. Those novelty voices need to just go away. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Curtis Delzer > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 3:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: be careful or . . . > > IN IOS16 which we downloaded, there is, below all the speech voices a > heading called "novelties." > > Be careful, because these "novelties" completely change or "novelize" > the speech of the synthesizer they are making fun with and of. > > There are ones which change the speech to the point of not understanding at > all what is intended. > > My wife accidentally activated "bells," which is a West Minster chime > speaking but, she didn't know what happened. > > and, forgot that if you have other languages in your rotor you can go to it > and escape the nightmare of not knowing what is happening, what is being > spoken and how to escape. > > Remember one thing; you can audition the sound without activating it, or, > for that matter listen to a voice without activating it either by flicking > down on an item and one of the options is to "speak sample," > which it would have done on the "bells" novelty except she activated it and > for awhile we both were like in a country where the language and customs are > completely not known in a condition where it was vital we knew what to do > and how to act and could not. Like an actual nightmare. At first she was > utterly lost and then she figured out that it was speaking, and then took > some time to understand it for it was hard. My hearing is way below normal, > but hers is extraordinarily excellent, however, the "bells" novelty was so > different it took her some time to understand where she was and how to get > back to some semblance of a speaking phone rather than one steeped in a > belfry. First she couldn't understand enough to get anywhere or know from > where to get to somewhere else, but after a while while we were both > flummoxed, she understood enough to get words like "button," and others so > she found the rotor and was then able to turn it to something other than at > the time, her default language which was on "bells novelty," so wow, that > was not fun. > > There are definitely people in this world who have very little to do but . . > . because some of those "novelties" are not fun at all. > > Again, do remember to audition if you rely on your phone to speak to you to > determine where you are, because you can get into a situation where your > phone will not make sense, period. > > > -- > Curtis Delzer > H.S. > K6VFO > Rialto, CA > [email protected] > > -- > Curtis Delzer > H.S. > K6VFO > Rialto, CA > [email protected] > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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