I was able to switch Alex and Samantha, Samantha is my default and Alex is in the rotor. Now my incoming messages are not read out on the lock screen, it only says "incoming message" as it did on iOS 7.1.2 and on my iPad. So I guess switching Alex and Samantha had an effect, unless they are read out randomly.
Thanks, Katey Sent from my iPad > On Oct 25, 2014, at 11:34 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Hi Richard and Katey, > > As I just described, you can set Samantha as the default language and Alex as > an additional language when you add US English, but you can also do it the > other way around, either way works. > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Katey Glass > Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 6:12 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Having both the high-quality voice and Alex in iOS eight > > On my iPhone 5s I have Alex as the default and Samantha in the language > rotor. Is there a way to switch this or does it really matter? > > Thanks, > > Katey > > Sent from my iPad > > On Oct 25, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Richard Turner <rich...@turner42.com> wrote: > > Mary, > I was just experimenting with those settings and ended up with them both as > Alex. > I then figured out how to get back to having Samantha as one of those, but > whether this is going to make sense is yet to be determined. > Go into the speech settings and go to the rotor languages and double tap on > the more info button on English US. > Then, double tap the enhanced quality using 156 MB. > Then, go back to the default dialect settings and double tap on Alex using > 869 MB. > > Then see if that changes what is on the rotor. > If not, set the default to 156 and hopefully that will get you Samantha, and > set the other as Alex. > It was some combination of those steps that got me back to having both. > HTH, > Richard > > > The only limits are those of vision. > > > > 🐉 > > > > Sent from my iPhone 5S > > > > On Oct 25, 2014, at 5:11 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Richard, > No, not exactly. I have US English in the rotor. I also have default language > as US English. But both of those are set to Alex. What I would like to have > is one said to Alex and the other one set to the high-quality Samantha voice. > I think I had that at one point, and then somehow screwed it up. I hope that > makes sense. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPad > > On Oct 25, 2014, at 5:06 PM, Richard Turner <rich...@turner42.com> wrote: > > Go into the speech settings and add US as one of the roter languages. Is that > what you mean? > Richard > > > The only limits are those of vision. > > > > 🐉 > > > > Sent from my iPhone 5S > > > > On Oct 25, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have just installed iOS 8.1 on my iPad mini retina. I have the Alex voice > installed. Somehow, I managed to set Alex as my default language and also my > US English language. I would like to retain Samantha as one of those two > positions. Shirley, I am overlooking something stupid and easy. But I can't > find it. How can I have both Samantha and Alex available as US English > choices, one being the default and the otherbeing the US English choice? > Mary > > > Sent from my iPad > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. 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