Eloquence in iOS 16 Beta 6 sounds normal again

By Amir Soleimani, 15 August, 2022

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Folks, the subject line says it all. Eloquence no longer sounds toyish or strange with Beta 6. Now I'd like to know if its text-skipping bug has been fixed, too, as I haven't tested it yet.

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By Nikola Jovic on Monday, August 15, 2022 - 18:01

Unfortunately, as the subject says, the text skipping bug remains...
On the positive side, I no longer notice the strange crackling it used to have with longer texts. To be clear, that was already gone for me in beta 5, but with the return to the old sounding Eloquence I was afraid it might return, but fortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.

By Amir Soleimani on Monday, August 15, 2022 - 18:10

Folks, this might sound a bit off-topic in the grand scheme of things, but would you please kindly report my issue with the newly added Persian Dariush voice to Apple, or, at the very least, send an email to Apple's accessibility team? The feedback number is FB10079436. The issue, which I reported to Apple via the Feedback app on June 8, is that VoiceOver never automatically switches to the new Persian Dariush voice whenever Persian text is encountered. Either it incorrectly switches to the Compact Arabic voice, or it never makes the switch and Alex, my default US English voice, keeps reading, or attempts to read, Persian characters insatisfactorily. Needless to say, I always have to use the Rotor to switch languages whenever Persian text is encountered. I just have Alex and Persian Dariush in my language Rotor, and am a bit concerned the bug might not be fixed in this cycle as we're inching closer to the final 16.0 RC.
Thanks to you all.

By Amir Soleimani on Monday, August 15, 2022 - 18:18

Nikola, For me a bit of the Eloquence crackling has returned. I just noticed it when moving back and forth among apps in the App Switcher. Of course, it sounds more of a typical Eloquence/IBMTTS crackling to which most of us have become accustomed.

By Angel Blessing on Monday, August 15, 2022 - 23:26

If you turn down the volume of the voiceover speech in the roter you will not get the pops and clicks like you do now, it is a bug that if you have the volume up around 100 you will get that popping noise.

By JC on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 - 14:05

it sounds like the sample rate has returned to it's original format in beta 6 just like in beta 4. guess apple will use the current sample rate leading up to final release to cut down for smaller devices and resources. also, the crackling has returned, but not as much. hopefully it'll be resolved soon..