I guess it's only in the US. I'm overseas, in Barcelona, Spain. And still nothing. This is unacceptable. We're in 2023, and still, the internet and all its services are under regions.
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iOS 17 Lets You Create a Voice That Sounds Like You
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I tried to set language to English and region to USA but no luck. Not sure they check IP or what. We can report it as bug
I’m using iPhone 14 in Australia. I think the generated voice sounds a little robot like but my missus & Dad think it sounds largely like me! So I type what I want to say to the wife when she’s out of the room then just play it when she comes back! 😂
I read there may be a bug that if you're at 100% charged it doesn’t start processing when plugged in. I drained down a little then plugged in & it started, took @24 hours. It reminds you every time you have unplugged that it has stopped processing & you can check progress in Accessibility - Personal Voice.
Once created you can also export your voice.
The only use I can find for it at this stage is turning on Accessibility- Live Speech which allows you to press side button 3 times to bring up a box to type in & you can also save your regular Phrases. No ability to set it as a Siri voice as yet! I also cannot get it to play aloud during a normal phone call or WhatsApp call, not tried FaceTime yet. Be interested to hear any other uses at present, but I think this is a great feature with a variety of uses in the future.
I read there may be a bug that if you're at 100% charged it doesn’t start processing when plugged in. I drained down a little then plugged in & it started, took @24 hours. It reminds you every time you have unplugged that it has stopped processing & you can check progress in Accessibility - Personal Voice.
Once created you can also export your voice.
The only use I can find for it at this stage is turning on Accessibility- Live Speech which allows you to press side button 3 times to bring up a box to type in & you can also save your regular Phrases. No ability to set it as a Siri voice as yet! I also cannot get it to play aloud during a normal phone call or WhatsApp call, not tried FaceTime yet. Be interested to hear any other uses at present, but I think this is a great feature with a variety of uses in the future.
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I can see where this is very useful. Also as long as this is limited to the voice owner’s personal devices the risk of this being used for scamming people is low.
yep it eventually worked! I turned on Live Speech or whatever it's called and I can type into there lol. It's a liitttlleee robotic but it definitely sounds like me!
iPhone 12 Pro Max
I've had to record three full 15 minute sessions and still no voice. At least I've got most of the lines memorized by now …
Day One: After recording the first full session and waiting some time, I exported a 100 MB zip file of the recordings to my laptop that supposedly can be imported later. Then accidentally deleted the original—and found that there's no Import function.
Checked with Apple Support and they said that the Beta has limited functionality and “Import isn't one of those functions” … so the Export function is useless. The reason I was messing around with the settings to begin with is it had been 12 hours and I was still stuck at 0%.
Recorded another full fifteen minute session after the chat with Apple Support.
Day Two: Still stuck at zero percent. I read there was a glitch if the battery is at 100% the processing won't start, so let it drain for a while and plugged it back in. Still no movement. A few hours later went to turn off Cloud Sharing with other devices, thinking that might be why it's held up at zero percent.
Oops. Another glitch. Turn off Cloud Sharing and no more than five seconds later the entire Personal Voice disappeared right in front of my eyes just as if it had been deleted, which forced me to start all over again.
Then I noted another glitch: If I start and then pause recording on the examples, time remaining goes from 15 minutes to 10 minutes remaining to 1 minute remaining—all with nothing recorded yet. The Export function that was previously a 108 MB ZIP file is now 240 bytes, which verifies it's an empty file, so definitely shouldn't work that way.
I went ahead and recorded the one minute, and after only a few phrases it says I'm finished. But the Export file is only 10 MB. Turned off Cloud Sharing and it deleted the voice again. Well, that confirms that glitch. Fortunately I only lost one minute of recording.
Day Three: I've now recorded a third full fifteen minute session and … you guessed it, still stuck at 0%. Cloud Sharing was already turned off before I started this time—and the battery wasn't full, so we'll see if it starts to work this time or not.
Currently Generating at 0% and counting …
EDIT 1: +4 hours later, Notification: “Preparation of your Personal Voice couldn't complete.” Opened it up and it still shows as Generating…0% 😕
EDIT 2: +6 days later, in the interim I've downloaded iOS 17 Beta 2 hoping it might include a workaround or fix. However, the Personal Voice screen still shows the finished recording has yet to begin generating and still reads as Preparing…0%.
Apple Support said they aren't able to troubleshoot the feature as it's a limited-functionality beta trial and they don't want to break anything worse than it already is … they then suggested that I revert to iOS 16. 😓🫤🫠
I've had to record three full 15 minute sessions and still no voice. At least I've got most of the lines memorized by now …
Day One: After recording the first full session and waiting some time, I exported a 100 MB zip file of the recordings to my laptop that supposedly can be imported later. Then accidentally deleted the original—and found that there's no Import function.
Checked with Apple Support and they said that the Beta has limited functionality and “Import isn't one of those functions” … so the Export function is useless. The reason I was messing around with the settings to begin with is it had been 12 hours and I was still stuck at 0%.
Recorded another full fifteen minute session after the chat with Apple Support.
Day Two: Still stuck at zero percent. I read there was a glitch if the battery is at 100% the processing won't start, so let it drain for a while and plugged it back in. Still no movement. A few hours later went to turn off Cloud Sharing with other devices, thinking that might be why it's held up at zero percent.
Oops. Another glitch. Turn off Cloud Sharing and no more than five seconds later the entire Personal Voice disappeared right in front of my eyes just as if it had been deleted, which forced me to start all over again.
Then I noted another glitch: If I start and then pause recording on the examples, time remaining goes from 15 minutes to 10 minutes remaining to 1 minute remaining—all with nothing recorded yet. The Export function that was previously a 108 MB ZIP file is now 240 bytes, which verifies it's an empty file, so definitely shouldn't work that way.
I went ahead and recorded the one minute, and after only a few phrases it says I'm finished. But the Export file is only 10 MB. Turned off Cloud Sharing and it deleted the voice again. Well, that confirms that glitch. Fortunately I only lost one minute of recording.
Day Three: I've now recorded a third full fifteen minute session and … you guessed it, still stuck at 0%. Cloud Sharing was already turned off before I started this time—and the battery wasn't full, so we'll see if it starts to work this time or not.
Currently Generating at 0% and counting …
EDIT 1: +4 hours later, Notification: “Preparation of your Personal Voice couldn't complete.” Opened it up and it still shows as Generating…0% 😕
EDIT 2: +6 days later, in the interim I've downloaded iOS 17 Beta 2 hoping it might include a workaround or fix. However, the Personal Voice screen still shows the finished recording has yet to begin generating and still reads as Preparing…0%.
Apple Support said they aren't able to troubleshoot the feature as it's a limited-functionality beta trial and they don't want to break anything worse than it already is … they then suggested that I revert to iOS 16. 😓🫤🫠
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I’ve already heard about a case of using this type of technology to get parents to send money with a computer generated copy of their son’s voice.
I think it would be wonderful. My ex passed away many years ago and I’d give anything to hear his voice again.
There were many people who kept their dead spouse’s phone numbers after 9/11 just so they could dial it and hear the recording of their souses telling them to leave a message.
