The siri british voice sounds like as if the dude is talking while holding his nose. It wasn't like this with IOS 6. No female voice option either. I have had to switch to the Canadian Female siri, she sounds more natural. Anyone else notice this?
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Siri Britsh Voice
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Currently the new high quality voices are only for:
North American English (US and Canada)
French (All Regions)
German (All Regions)
More regions (accents) and languages will be available in time.
Not to me lol. It is well muffled.
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Where does it give you this information?
The main problem with switching voices is, providing you are a Brit and not Canadian, you'll find the speech recognition accuracy is significantly worse.
Oh okay. Nope am a Brit, but decided to switch to Canadian Siri to hear a better Siri with more natural sounding voice. So you saying if I stick to British Siri, it will some how fix itself over time?
Related question, but when it go into settings, there is no option to change siri's gender.
Is this something that will eventually load up if I leave it plugged in and connected to wifi? Or is something wrong?
I'm in the UK and using an ipad 3 if that makes any difference.
Is this something that will eventually load up if I leave it plugged in and connected to wifi? Or is something wrong?
I'm in the UK and using an ipad 3 if that makes any difference.
The only "fix" will be when Apple decide to give us the new more natural voices (male and female) if they do at all.
At the moment you have the choice of either picking a voice you prefer and reducing speech recognition accuracy or sticking with the British voice and having it know what you're talking about most of the time.
Post #5 answers this question, the quote from chrf097.
Ha ha, can you imagine,
"The way he talks . . . . . . . . with that . . . . . . . slow . . . . . . deliberate . . . . . . pacing . . . . . . "
You'd never get anything done.
I know we aren't into the finer points on these boards, but there's no such thing as a British voice.
The 'Fix' seems to be to wait until somehow the phone sorts itself out. Siri sounded massively muffled to me when I first upgraded to iOS 7 (same voice as iOS 6 but just really muffled), but after a few days it miraculously fixed itself.
British Siri...
Yeah, he sounds worse than he did on iOS 6, kind of like he has a mouth full of cotton wool. I'm gonna change him to Canadian Siri for now until Apple sort him out. LOL.
Yeah, he sounds worse than he did on iOS 6, kind of like he has a mouth full of cotton wool. I'm gonna change him to Canadian Siri for now until Apple sort him out. LOL.
Yeah, and those JML screens you see in hardware shops... and the national lottery balls announcer.
Indeed, so they've predictably gone for the received-pronunciation pompus tit option.
Seriously, they need to get a northerner or a scot on the case if they're serious about "making products people love".
I think we need a Jarvis voice from the Iron Man films. Apple should talk to Marvel about a licensing deal.
A Welsh accent would be terrific...sort of like Richard Burton, the great actor of the 20th Century:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLafXKLcPcQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLafXKLcPcQ
'Ear 'ear! That'd be somethin!
I really would love a Johnny Ive voice. Without the dramatic pauses obviously..