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Apple Watch speak the time using the wrong voice.

daveporter2005

daveporter2005

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Sep 16, 2015
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I have a new Apple Watch series 6. I use the British Female voice for Siri. That works fine, but when I two figure press the dial so that it speaks the time, it uses a different voice. It's a very tinny version of the original British voice (Jon Briggs). Also, when I check the settings for the Siri voice, it says it is waiting to download. When the watch is charging it downloads. But when I check it again, it again says it's waiting to download and does it again. It seems it is not doing it properly. Are these a couple of bugs, or one bug?
 
my phone is set to India female voice, watch siri speaks the same voice but speak time is male voice.
i didnt even have the Indian male voice downloaded in my phone.

i checked with apple support, they did not confirm if speak time follows siri settings in the phone but asked to unpair and pair the watch.

i havent done it yet.

OP, is your problem fixed? have you tried unpair and pair?

i have local stored music and apple pay cards set up, if i unpair my watch local music is lost and to sync back from the phone it is extremely slow, so reluctant to do it.
 
Yes I have tried unpair and pair, it made no difference. In my opinion this is a software fault. A few people are mentioning it now. I have spoken to Apple Support and they say they are investigating and will get back to me. But I haven't heard from them for nearly a week, so I'm going to contact them again tomorrow. The voice you hear when you double touch the screen is the voice that is loaded onto your watch for the accessabilty announcements. It's a default voice, but when you select a Siri voice it should also be used for the double touch as well. That's not happening and they do know about it now.
 
the voice for the speak time on two finger press is the low grade old Siri voice.

Isn’t it supposed to be whatever Siri voice I have it set to?

I don’t remember it being this bad.
 
JM said:
the voice for the speak time on two finger press is the low grade old Siri voice.

Isn’t it supposed to be whatever Siri voice I have it set to?

I don’t remember it being this bad.
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Mine sounds perfectly normal, AW series 8 in Titanium on most recent Watch OS 8.7 - it's the same Aussie woman voice my 13 Pro Max uses on iOS 15.7. What model and OS do you have?
 
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HeadphoneAddict said:
Mine sounds perfectly normal, AW series 8 in Titanium on most recent Watch OS 8.7 - it's the same Aussie woman voice my 13 Pro Max uses on iOS 15.7. What model and OS do you have?
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Series 6. watchOS 9.0

Thanks. I thought it was supposed to be Siri voice. I may have to reset new then.
 
Pug72 said:
Yeah my Series 7 did it when updating to WatchOS 9 and now my Ultra has it.
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What is it, in this case? You mean it went to the old Siri robot voice? Or it went to the updated normal Siri voice that you selected?
 
My Apple Watch Ultra is not using the selected Siri voice for speaking the time.
I have American (Voice 4) selected, but it is using British (Voice 2).
 
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D1G1TALR0B0T said:
My Apple Watch Ultra is not using the selected Siri voice for speaking the time.
I have American (Voice 4) selected, but it is using British (Voice 2).
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Crazy it’s doing that.

I just reset Watch as new. It’s still the old female Siri robot voice.

I have British male voice set on iPhone.
 
Just made sure the voice was loaded on my watch as well. After it went through the percentages loading, and a check mark on the Apple Watch Siri settings, it still speaks old female robot Siri.

When I “hey Siri what time is it”, it gives me the time in a polite male British voice (like I have it set on my iPhone).
 
I started this thread and then managed to solve the problem I had. But recently it's been back to the way is was with the robotic British 'Daniel' voice on the watch face, completely ignoring the Siri Voice settings. But, today I have updated to watchOS 9.1, and it's now back the way it should be using the Siri Voice I chose for Siri, the British Female voice. Much better, so I assume it has been fixed in 9.1.
 
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Hey, me too

My Siri’s voice doesn’t want to download the dictionary

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I’m stuck in this position whereas I’m already connected to wifi
 
I’ve got the same problem, the voice on mine broke when I updated to watchOS 9. I’ll try updating to 9.1 and see if that fixes it because I do use the speak time feature quite a bit.
 
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