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Latest iOS 27 Beta Expands Siri AI Voice Customization

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With the fifth beta of iOS 27, Apple has expanded the voice customization options for Siri AI.

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Pace and Expressivity can now be adjusted for more of the available voice options instead of just the two American voices.

There are seven American voice options and four British voices to choose from, all of which can be customized with different Pace and Expressivity settings. Pace changes talking speed, while expressivity changes emphasis.

Siri AI voice customization is done on-device, so the feature is limited to newer iPhones. You need an iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, or iPhone Air to use voice customization on an iPhone.

It's available on Macs with an M3 chip or newer and at least 12GB RAM, and the M4 iPad Pro and newer, also with at least 12GB RAM.

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It is a huge shame that these adjustments only work on a couple phones. It just doesn't make sense that we need "pro" models to change the dang voice. Siri voice choices suck, especially compared to the free options on Grok, Chat, etc. It just doesn't make sense in terms of real world usage that THIS is the feature denied to base 17 users.

I still contend that Apple might be setting themselves up for a class action on this feature. They made soooo many promises to consumers.
 
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The British English ones aren't great, they are the standard robotic voices that you can speed up or slow down, they don't sound natural at all to me.
 
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Why not on the M3 iPad Air 😭 Are the thermals too rough for AFM Advanced? I'm just barely missing it with my 16 Pro, and my Mac rigt behind the supported list.
 
N0ughtsAndCr0sses said:
The ones which have the biggest market.

I wanted to say “ones that really matter” but I would’ve been non PC
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What does market size have to do with anything? I’m English, but I’d quite like a Scottish or Welsh Siri. Sometimes I have my Siri voice set to Irish (incidentally, there are about the same number of people in the Republic of Ireland as there are in Scotland - if Siri can be Irish, why can’t s/he be Scottish?). At the moment, I’m using the newest American voice.

Apple seems not to understand that a ‘British’ is not the same as ‘English’. If they’re going to have a selection of ‘British’ accents, I just think it would be cool to have accents from each nation - not just England.
 
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cml1982 said:
The British English ones aren't great, they are the standard robotic voices that you can speed up or slow down, they don't sound natural at all to me.
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I agree; even as a Brit, I'm going to stay with the female American voice permanently, as it sounds much nicer and more natural.
 
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jonnyb said:
What does market size have to do with anything? I’m English, but I’d quite like a Scottish or Welsh Siri. Sometimes I have my Siri voice set to Irish (incidentally, there are about the same number of people in the Republic of Ireland as there are in Scotland - if Siri can be Irish, why can’t s/he be Scottish?). At the moment, I’m using the newest American voice.

Apple seems not to understand that a ‘British’ is not the same as ‘English’. If they’re going to have a selection of ‘British’ accents, I just think it would be cool to have accents from each nation - not just England.
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About that tho

England matters

The rest of the uk is just tolerated 🤣🤣

Joooking

Or am i?
 
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This is such a "does nothing productive" feature. The enhanced voice transcription, now that is useful. That's going to work on my M4 Mac mini, and M4 iPad, but apparently NOT my iPhone 17, which is where you need it the most.
 
I'm a little bit confused because, if I recall correctly, in one of the earlier betas, somebody had note the in the article (Here on MacRumors)that iPhones that did not support the more high-end version of Siri AI would still get the new interface, just without the additional customizations of the upgraded voices... Was that a mistake or what am I missing here? I own an iPhone 15 Pro Max, I never got this newer interface... (Obviously not with the upgraded voices) but the new interface as opposed to the old one. Does anybody know anything about this?
 
Nothing regarding language options? I ask because Siri AI, in my now us English iPhone, Mac and iPad, understands Italian just fine when you ask it things. It just “thinks” in English but then answers in Italian and can even rewrite Italian text.
So I wonder how long it will take for Apple to update it to Italian. Admittedly the fact it is not available in the EU will make the target audience for Italian about 400’000 people (not al customers) living in Switzerland and speaking Italian…
 
il_teo77 said:
Nothing regarding language options? I ask because Siri AI, in my now us English iPhone, Mac and iPad, understands Italian just fine when you ask it things. It just “thinks” in English but then answers in Italian and can even rewrite Italian text.
So I wonder how long it will take for Apple to update it to Italian. Admittedly the fact it is not available in the EU will make the target audience for Italian about 400’000 people (not al customers) living in Switzerland and speaking Italian…
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Don't forget the 1.5 million Italian speakers in Argentina!
 
I hate to break it to y'all but C-raig, Timmy and team delivered on Siri, however late.

I bought Pixel 10 to see how Gemini cuts against new Siri and color me unimpressed ... all the things are on the phone but new Siri delivers better (due to personal context and on-screen awareness) better than Gemini. All things seem tied up in iOS.

For a layman like me, that's great - so yea, for all the flak that we give to Timmy & Co for missing deadline, I am turning into promoter from a detractor.
 
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I’ve not heard these but I’d rather Apple work on getting a MVP ‘standard’ Siri voice right for 27.0 and roll these out later down the line.
 
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