Hi Fred, OK, I see what you were expecting, but SIRI refers only to the voice assistant and not to the Voiceover speech in general as you realized. I know quite a few people were hoping for more voice options, but at least for now that is not happening. However, I do consider it a significant advance that least now one can use whichever English voice one wants and in high quality without having to switch the region setting and also download aa. Maybe now that they have switched to a 64 bit processor we will see some of that next year in iOS 8. I definitely like the male SIRI voice better, I think it is much clearer and pronounces things much better.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred Olver Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: siri male voice, was: Re: How to Increase Siri's speech Thanks, Segert, it is true that if I ask a question I now get the male voice, however I guess I expected the voice coming out of the phone all the time, not just when I asked it a question would be the male voice. Fred Olver Author of Dealing with Vision Loss have a look it just makes sense. http://www.dealingwithvisionloss.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 9:18 AM Subject: RE: siri male voice, was: Re: How to Increase Siri's speech > Hi Fred, > > That is very baffling because if I go into Settings, SIRI and then double > tap on Voice Gender I can select either male or female (Voiceover will > announce which one is "selected" and I can press and hold the home key > right > from that screen and ask a question like "What is the time" and I get the > answer in whichever voice shows as selected. > > What is your SIRI language set to? > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Fred Olver > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 6:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: siri male voice, was: Re: How to Increase Siri's speech > > Yes, Segert, I hear no difference between the two voices. and I have made > a > point of turning off the phone and then back on in order to establish the > change. > > > Fred Olver > > > > Author of Dealing with Vision Loss > > > > have a look it just makes sense. > > http://www.dealingwithvisionloss.com > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 9:48 PM > Subject: RE: siri male voice, was: Re: How to Increase Siri's speech > > >> Hi Fred, >> >> When you say you can here no difference, do you mean the male voice >> sounds >> like the female voice? If so then there must be something wrong because >> he >> definitely sounds male and I like the male voice a lot better, it is >> super >> clear and a very nice voice. >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf >> Of Fred Olver >> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 7:04 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: siri male voice, was: Re: How to Increase Siri's speech >> >> I have changed to the male voice and back to the female voice and can >> hear >> no difference. >> >> Fred Olver >> >> >> >> Author of Dealing with Vision Loss >> >> >> >> have a look it just makes sense. >> >> http://www.dealingwithvisionloss.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Wes Smith" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 12:24 AM >> Subject: Re: siri male voice, was: Re: How to Increase Siri's speech >> >> >> If you want to switch to the male Siri voice: >> Settings>General>Siri>Voice Gender>Male >> On Sep 21, 2013, at 10:32 PM, Wren Langley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, I did as you said, I went to settings then general and then speak >>> selection and turned it on I tapped on voices, and then take English one >>> but I could not get the mail voice. I already have enhanced voice is >>> turned on and I only got Samantha for the download. Is there something >>> else I should have done. Thank you very much. I would love to have the >>> Siri voice. God bless Wren >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Sep 20, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Wes Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Richard and all, >>>> I have both the male and female siri voices enhanced. >>>> WHat you have to do is go to settings>General>accessibility>Speak >>>> Selection, turn that on, tap on the voices button, tap on English, then >>>> turn on enhanced quality, and it will download them. >>>>> On Sep 20, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Richard Turner >>>>> <[email protected]> >> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Samantha is the only enhanced US voice. No, the Siri voices cannot be >>>>> used with VoiceOver. >>>>> That would be nice, but isn't going to happen anytime soon, if ever. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Richard >>>>> (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) >>>>> >>>>>> On Sep 20, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Melissa Tucker <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Is samantha the only us inhanced voice, or is it possible for me to >>>>>> replace samantha with siri's male voice? I think I could get use to >>>>>> that voice reading books and such. >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sep 20, 2013, at 2:37 PM, "Thom Spittle" <[email protected]> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It doesn't seem to be possible, Joseph. Sorry, I'm in the boat with >>>>>>> you. >>>>>>> Smiles. >>>>>>> Thom >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>>>>> On Behalf Of Joseph FreeTech >>>>>>>> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 2:26 PM >>>>>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>>>>> Subject: How to Increase Siri's speech >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> while trying out the many great new IOS7 features, I've discovered >>>>>>>> that >>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> new Siri makes me wince a little. <Smile>. Is there any way to >>>>>>>> increase >>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> speech? The Samantha voice sounds slow and a bit drunk. The male >>>>>>>> voice >>>>>>>> sounds much more pleasant, but I'd like to increase the voice tempo >>>>>>>> if >>>>>>>> possible. 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