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iOS 7 voices are confusing me now

By Callum, 18 September, 2013

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Hello, I don't want to be the first to complain about iOS 7, I haven't fully looked at it yet but I'm sure its great. I updated on iTunes on my mac, and was quite shocked when VO started back up, and I heard this rediculess muffled english voice. I use UK english by the way, but I always had use compact voice turned on which was fine. It was a great clear voice, but now it sounds like a screen reader voice from about 10 years ago. That is, very quiet and not very understandable. I have downloaded the premium voice for british english, and it sounds exactly the same as when I could turn compact voice off, I wasn't massivly keane on that voice either. Is it something I'm doing wrong, or has the compact voice gone terible? I also haven't got the new voice for Siri, that is still using the old voice. So sorry for such a long post, but all I'm really asking is is it something I'm doing wrong or has the british english voice been changed? It just seems strange why apple would put a terible voice rather than the good clear 1 in iOS 6. Thanks for any help and sorry for going on :)

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Give it time.

By Siobhan

10 years 2 months ago

Hi. just plug your Idevice in and wait a little while. The premium voice needs to download and you need to be plugged into a wall and also having wifi on. Then it will be fine. Note to all, just plug it in and wait about fve to ten minutes or maybe more if your wifi is a snail. ;)

Compact Mode

By AnonyMouse

10 years 2 months ago

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team
The Compact Mode voices do have seem to have gone back to the iOS 5 sounding. We have noticed the same thing. So it is not just you. Plus, the voices have seem to have gone between a hyrbrid of the iOS 5 and the iOS 6. So it does have appeared they have tweaked it a bit.

I use the Austrailian voice

By Neo

10 years 2 months ago

I use the Austrailian voice and I've noticed that it is clipping / rushing speaking of words and not leaving longer pauses where it should be and for example on the lock screen it is saying Thursday the 19th of September but there is no real pause between the words Thursday and the word the when it reads it out. Also, whilst typing this message, Voiceover has just stopped speaking for no apparant reason that I can tell and the only thing I can hear is the clicking sounds. I've had to turn it off and on again using the triple press of the home key

Turning off the setting 'Use

By Neo

10 years 2 months ago

In reply to I use the Austrailian voice by Neo

Turning off the setting 'Use pitch change' in the Voiceover settings makes it sound a little more like what it used to

Thanks. Another question

By Callum

10 years 2 months ago

Another question. Has the share and weather widgets disappeared from the notification center? If not where are they?

I came across a link for

By Neo

10 years 2 months ago

In reply to Thanks. Another question by Callum

I came across a link for weather in the notification centre. Check in settigns -> notifications to see if the share widget has been disabled there. I am definately not liking the changes they've made to the voices in this update. I can hardly understand them at times. It isn't pronouncing certain letters of the alphabet properly and it is clipping words and it sounds like as if it is rushing certain words when it says them.

the same problems

By mastodont

10 years 2 months ago

In reply to I came across a link for by Neo

I have the same problems with the Romanian voice.. I think some one should report to apple. the ios 6 voice was way better than this.

I actually like the sound of

By Joe

10 years 2 months ago

In reply to the same problems by mastodont

I actually like the sound of the voices in ios7, so I guess different strokes for different folks

Could somebody do a demo of compact UK Voice?

By Daniel

10 years 2 months ago

In reply to I actually like the sound of by Joe

Hi all, 1st off I really want to update to IOS7 but upon hearing that the UK compact voice has changed in this new release from IOS6. I am really concerned that I won't be able to understand the newer one. If someone is willing to do a breif demo of the Daniel UK compact voice in IOS7 I would vastly appreciate this effort. The reason why I am asking is because I have a hearing impairment. Sure there are bugs that I have heard about with the many thanks for everyone who has contributed in our community but and fore most it is essential that I can understand a particular voice that we have with Voiceover and during the time I have had my iPhone 5 since last December, the UK Compact British Daniel voice is the only one that is best for me. No other one will do and if I were to update, and not be able to understand my default voice then that would make my new IOS7 pritty much useless. Thank you for reading and I look forward to a response. Really trying hard to resist updating! LOL

I'll do my best

By Callum

10 years 2 months ago

In reply to Could somebody do a demo of compact UK Voice? by Daniel

I'll do my best at doing a demo. If I click on your name I can attach it to an email if you don't mind me emailing you?

To Daniel

By Brooke

10 years 2 months ago

In reply to I'll do my best by Callum

I sent a link via the email on this site with a link to a demo. Let me know if you need me to do it again at a different volume or speech rate. Hope it helps!

Muffled Daniel

By Joseph Westhouse

10 years 2 months ago

In reply to To Daniel by Brooke

I agree that the muffled compact voices are a big disappointment. In fact they're my only gripe thus far. I like that some features have been made more streamlined (dismissing apps, for example), and thus far the OS itself seems to be working pretty well. But why did they have to ruin my compact voices? I've been forced to use the high-quality U.S. English voice because I can't stand the HQ U.K. English voice and the compact voices are all muddy. I know I'll get used to it, but I miss my old voice. :-(

Thank you very much Brooke

By Daniel

10 years 2 months ago

In reply to To Daniel by Brooke

Hi Brooke, just want to say a big thank you for your demonstration. All that you showed was clearly understood and I actually have the speed of that voice at 50% myself. From what I heard to me it sounded the same as it were in IOS6. Its just I thought the original poster of this thread was saying that it sounded more muffled or not pronouncing things as it did before IOS7. So obviously, hearing this panic and alarm bells were ringing for me. I am glad this is not the case. I am curious what do others think about the compact UK Daniel voice? Do you the end user find its the same as it was in IOS6? or do you feel it has changed? Would love to hear your own thoughts. So it looks like I'll be upgrading then! :)

Compact Voices

By Brooke

10 years 2 months ago

In reply to Thank you very much Brooke by Daniel

I'm really glad I was able to help. :) To me, the compact voices sound muffled; but I'm not a fair judge of them, because I'm used to the premium voices.

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