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Siri AI Gains Customizable Voice Expressiveness and Pace

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Apple today announced that Siri AI will offer a "brand new voice experience," giving users the ability to customize how the voice assistant sounds.

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On devices that support Apple's most advanced on-device model, Siri AI will deliver more expressive voices alongside a significant improvement to systemwide dictation accuracy. Users will be able to adjust both the expressiveness and pace of Siri's voice to their preference via a new UI with sliders. As of developer beta 1, American is the sole voice option.

The updated dictation engine will capture speech as polished text, automatically handling capitalization, punctuation, and formatting in real time. Apple says improved speech understanding means users can speak naturally and trust that their words will appear accurately and as intended.

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To anyone concerned, it seems this and the enhanced dictation (automatic punctuation, capitalization, accuracy) are the only features limited to the 12GB RAM minimum according to Apple's iOS, MacOS, and Apple Intelligence page footnotes. Every other new features should be accessible if you already had an Apple Intelligence device.
 
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Speed: slightly fast. Expressivity: zero. Further, all answers as one paragraph under 100 words, with no bullet points nor bold text, unless I mention otherwise.

Unfortunately all of the models I’ve encountered seem to ignore rigid preferences set like this. Let’s hope these heed them. Then again, I’m on an old mini and in Europe so I need not consider Apple’s models for a while. Apple, release a new small iPhone with a 5.7-inch display so I can get a new phone.
 
Can't seem to get it in Canada on an iPhone 17 Pro Max or MacBook Pro M5. Tried switching the language to English - US but that just reverted it back to the old Siri and the new app no longer worked when I did that. Back to English - Canada but only allow for use of the new Siri without the Voice Expressiveness.
 
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Bummer my base iPhone 17 doesn't get the new voice. Apple can't offload that to Private Cloud Compute? 😕
 
curdy said:
Can't seem to get it in Canada on an iPhone 17 Pro Max or MacBook Pro M5. Tried switching the language to English - US but that just reverted it back to the old Siri and the new app no longer worked when I did that. Back to English - Canada but only allow for use of the new Siri without the Voice Expressiveness.
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You have to have access to the “new” Siri by getting on the waitlist on the Apple Intelligence setting. Try that
 
wilderkun said:
You have to have access to the “new” Siri by getting on the waitlist on the Apple Intelligence setting. Try that
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I'm already past that, I have the new Siri, just not the Expressive Voice options that others in the US do.
 
curdy said:
Can't seem to get it in Canada on an iPhone 17 Pro Max or MacBook Pro M5. Tried switching the language to English - US but that just reverted it back to the old Siri and the new app no longer worked when I did that. Back to English - Canada but only allow for use of the new Siri without the Voice Expressiveness.
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You have to also switch your region to United States. Currently trying it, I’ll let you know if it worked!
 
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You have to also switch your region to United States. Currently trying it, I’ll let you know if it worked!
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I did try that and it hasn't produced the Expressive Voice option yet on either iPhone 17 Pro Max or M5 MacBook Pro. iPhone is still indexing so fingers crossed it shows up.
 
Better dictation is the one feature I was looking forward to. It's such a letdown that it will only be available on devices with 12GB of RAM.
 
MilaM said:
Better dictation is the one feature I was looking forward to. It's such a letdown that it will only be available on devices with 12GB of RAM.
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Dictation has worked flawlessly for me for years. Strange that this is bundled into Apple Intelligence now, but also makes sense as it can look at the grammar and full context to do auto-corrections of words.
 
coolfactor said:
Dictation has worked flawlessly for me for years. Strange that this is bundled into Apple Intelligence now, but also makes sense as it can look at the grammar and full context to do auto-corrections of words.
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It works well for simple sentences but is not very intelligent about the context. More modern dictation solutions built on top of powerful LLMs are much more useful in my experience.
 
GlamCheese666 said:
To anyone concerned, it seems this and the enhanced dictation (automatic punctuation, capitalization, accuracy) are the only features limited to the 12GB RAM minimum according to Apple's iOS, MacOS, and Apple Intelligence page footnotes. Every other new features should be accessible if you already had an Apple Intelligence device.
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Thanks for notifying us. I am very interested in the enhanced dictation part, and I’m sad that my iPhone 16 Pro won’t get the enhanced on-device dictation. I wasn't planning on upgrading my phone for another year or 2. But I just may have to with an iPhone 18 Pro 🥹 I want that enhanced dictation badly. I’ve been waiting years for it !
 
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