A testament to its robustness: it still works perfectly on my handset running iOS 15 Dev Beta 6 despite having not been updated since March of last year. In 2019, Adam Tow released an immensely well-considered Siri Shortcut called “ Record Text to Speech,” which provides an interface for recording, editing, and managing text-to-speech audio files with Siri’s original voices. Of the four new Siri voices introduced earlier this year in iOS 14.5, 2 and 3 are by far my favorites, not just because of their resonance with black iPhone users, but because they’re just better in a sense which I believe to be very significant.īefore I get ahead of myself, though, I must acknowledge that I am not the first to invest in Siri as a text-to-speech generator.
(For more details, see this Apple Support page.) Of course, I am not a young black man, nor am I even remotely as adept at reading my own work aloud as the actual talent, Siri Voice 3, who should be available on your iPhone/iPad right this moment (as long as you’ve updated iOS in the past six months,) via Settings ⇨ Siri & Search ⇨ Siri Voice. Here’s the specific audio he was talking about: Is it your voice or someone else? 😛,” Gourd bless his soul. Editor-in-Chief Flynn – a ridiculously talented web developer and successful independent media entrepreneur – responded “I’m listening to it with the speak feature right now. When I first published my iPhone & Music guide this past April, I’d been pretty active in AppleScoop ’s Discord Server, so I decided to share it there. The new “Make Spoken Audio From Text” action has finally been fixed. There are some built-in voices like Siri Female and Siri Male, in addition to a range of others which are available to download and try out.Bewilderingly, Siri is genuinely great at something they were never designed for. Tap Voices, pick a language, and you’ll see a whole range of options. Press it, and your device will read the entire selection to you. This means that whenever you select a block of text, in any app, a Speak button will appear alongside things like copy and paste.
Make sure Speak Selection is switched on. Open the Settings app and select General > Accessibility > Speech. They’re unique to this feature and need to be downloaded to the device, but it’s free and easy to set up so you might as well pick your favorite! Though text can be read out with Siri’s voice, Speak Selection actually has several other voices to choose from that you may not be used to on iOS. But if you’re going to be listening to a machine reading a lot of text, you’ll want to make sure it’s a voice you’re comfortable with! The Speak Selection function is super useful for iPhone and iPad users with visual impairments, and it’s handy in other situations too.
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