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Latest iOS 15.4 Beta Adds Fifth Siri Voice for U.S. Users
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Since Yoda isn't available, I'm sticking with the Indian voice. She sounds more trust worthy than the others IMO.
Apple is missing out on a great opportunity to monetize the popular voices that people have mentioned here.
Apple is missing out on a great opportunity to monetize the popular voices that people have mentioned here.
Lol new and improved Subaru driving Siri. That’s a pass, gonna stick with Irish Siri Lass.
Samuel L. Jackson reading weather forecasts and top stories from my Amazon Echo is as good as tech gets as far as I’m concerned.
One more voice for Apple to give a number instead of acknowledging that Male and Female actually exist.
I was ready to see some idiots talking about how “Apple is virtue signaling” because Quinn is (probably) supposed to be a more androgynous-sounding voice only to be pleasantly surprised to not find them here.
Apparently the MacRumors audience is more intelligent that the 9to5mac audience ??
EDIT: Nevermind, found it
Apparently the MacRumors audience is more intelligent that the 9to5mac audience ??
EDIT: Nevermind, found it
Solidly been enjoying the male Irish voice. Has a calming and cheery Puffin Rock vibe to it.
Ugh my own HomePod Mini pisses me off. I’ll want to quietly ask Siri a question so I’ll whisper it to my phone and my iPhone will activate like it’s listening and then suddenly my HomePod in the next room 20ft away will go off and be like “I’m sorry I didn’t catch that.” Or start calling someone I haven’t spoken with in years or plays an expletive filled song for my little kids even though I confirmed that explicit language is turned off in its settings it literally started playing a song called “F*** You.” or something like that. I couldn’t believe it. It’s the worst. And if I actually speak up and it hears me better, I can’t understand what the hell it’s saying from the other room most of the time. So I have to manually trigger it on my iPhone and iPad all the time. It’s freaky how well it picks up that trigger word. I just want to call it computer or HomePod or something.
The new voice? It’s the voice of reason imploring us not to use Siri
I would be surprised to learn Majel Barrett wasn't one inspiration for the original Siri voice.
I'd barely even thought about this kind of issue. I've never liked "Hey Siri" on anything but my HomePod devices, so I always activate Siri with the appropriate buttons on my iPhone, iPads, Watch and Mac, and say "hey, Siri" when I'm addressing the HomePod. No such mix-ups, ever.
Since this brings the number of US Siri voices to five, and Siri support has already been added to at least 20 other languages which previously hadn't been done (not even counting multiple voices for each language), I'd say that's evidently false.
Siri supports the most languages at this point, so reality doesn’t really seem to support your claim.
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Sorry if this has been posted already, but is this supposed to be a gay voice? If we're going down this route, trying to please every group, aren't we going to end up with hundreds of different Siri voices?
This voice is supposed to be gender-neutral.
Even if it were, why would that be an issue?
I can't help thinking that Apple would consider novelty voices like Buzz Lightyear or Yoda to be unbefitting the brand and more at home on an Android device. Apple's always tried to control the user experience (and the knock-on effect of perception by others) to maintain an image of cool sophistication; I don't think having Homer Simpson telling you it doesn't understand you quite fits in with that overall image.
Since you are so smart what does voice have to do with the way someone pronounces a word.American Siri voice? How would that sound? Pronounce foyer "foy-yur", excessive use of "have got" in sentences?