Siri voice question

You have to go to Siri and sample the voices to get the newer ones to download. For example, I am using Norah, American Voice 4. She takes up only 59MB whereas she use to take up 400MB.

Laura is still 450 MB over here

A detailed solution for this problem would be highly appreciated.

Do I go into the actual Siri settings to play samples of the new voices to get the smaller ones? Messing around with them in voice over settings doesn't seem to be accomplishing anything, and if they can be smaller, I would really, really love to free up the space on my phone as I pretty much have all the English voices installed apart from eloquence. Any further clerification would be extremely appreciated.

So far, I am not finding the new voices, but I hope they'll install over night or something.

Hey folks. apple mite be working on other voices to make the synthesizer, voice over friendly? As far as I have checked, Siri voice for (American English) seems to function well with voice-over.

Maybe I need to call Apple accessibility when I get home, but I have no sign of any of these new voices that you guys are talking about. You are mentioning that they have names, and that are a fraction of the size, but no matter what I do, I am not getting them. All of the Siri voices I have are still well over 400 MB. Should I completely delete them all and hope that the correct ones re-download, or is there another step I need to be taking? Thanks!

All my Siri voices are the same as they were, both the American and British male and female. All are over 400 MB, and I downloaded them all fresh.

I have the exact same problem. I also can’t see any of those new British voices that were in iOS 17 beta. Dammit! I wanted to use that British guy that kind of sounds like some gangster guy from England! LOL

In iOS 17 beta, that was this rather hot, sounding British female voice, but kinda sounds like on the news reporters from BBC. I would’ve just love to make a fake news report on my iPad, switch to that voice and see how she reads it.
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And I said that in a British voice mind you.

How you find the name? I did downloaded voices for siri 2 and play it but nothing about name.

You will need to choose the voices in Settings > Siri and Search, Language. When you tap on a voice to preview it, you will notice to the right of the one you choose a percentage. At the end of your voices, you will see text that states Siri Voices will take effect after download completes. If you choose a different voice, you will cancel the download of the previous voice. You also need to be on WI-FI for this to take effect.

Hi. I have the UK siri voice 3 as Siri and American voice 4 as my voice over voice. I'm enjoying them so far. :)

On my iPhone 11, only the American voices changed, other English voices and Turkish voices are the bigger ones. Also, I can't find the new voices on my MacBook Air, running Mac OS Sonoma RC, including the American ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Have the very same issue. Also, as I mentioned earlier in the General TTS Discussion thread, even the small AI-powered US English voices each have two different variants found in Settings>Accessibility>VoiceOver>Speech>English (US) and Settings>Accessibility>Spoken Content>Voices>English (US).

In addition to the smaller US English voices, you can also still find the larger ones when you go to Settings>Accessibility>VoiceOver>Activities>any activity>Voice>English (US)>Siri.

You do find smaller voices for other languages when you go to Settings>Accessibility>Spoken Content>Voices>any language having Siri voices>Siri. Though you can't use them with VoiceOver, and they don't even work if selected to be used as the system voice for these languages for use with features like Speak Screen. I tried switching back and forth between the male and female Turkish Siri voices, but it would be Yelda, the default/built-in Turkish voice speaking whenever I tried to have the voice speak, or no speech would be heard at all.

So is there a bug effecting these new voices to operate properly? This is really confusing. And not only for İOS but Mac OS to.

My iPad is a few generations old. Are the people who have discovered these small AI Siri voices all on the latest and greatest iPhone or iPad?

I have no clue what I did, but when I got home from work, I did discover the smaller US english voices. I've actually deleted all of my roter languages for the moment; no sign of smaller voices for any other siri voices. I'm also confused by the comment earlier in this thread saying that each of the US voices has two varients now. Also, still no sign of names for these voices. I'm beyond confused. I kind-a want to use the new, smaller siri voice, especially with Alex so frequently turning into Samantha, but honestly, none of this is making any sense. Maybe I'll call Apple Accessibility and see if they can help me understand, but I have a potentially much more serious concern I am hoping Apple can help me with. Thankfully, it's not an accessibility-related issue, but it seems like a pretty major bug none-the-less, assuming it even is a bug.

I'm using an iPhone 11. And my Mac is an M 1 MacBook Air. So I don't think that this issue is related to hardware.

The voices weren't originally available in voiceover, so I deleted all the siri voices in settings/accessibility/voiceover/speech/voices, and then I rebooted the phohne. Once I rebooted, the smaller sized siri voices were available to be downloaded.

So this is interesting. My mom called me and said my VM had an English accent. I played around in Settings and saw that it was because I said my Siri voice to one of the British voices. I said it back to the American voices and called my phone using A lady and it was fine. Strange but cool at the same time.

Rebooting the device didn't work for me, and interestingly I can't delete the large Siri voices. There is no delete option in rotor actions.

Seems like only American English siri voices shrunk.

If you go to settings>accessibility>spoken content, you can find the smaller voices. But they don't show up in VoiceOver settings for whatever reason. This is really frustrating and confusing.

Did anyone write to Apple Accessibility about this problem? Maybe they can come up with a solution.

Yes, the voices require at least an a14 chip (iPhone 12 or newer) from what I understand. otherwise, you'll just get the larger ones. This is what I've gathered from the testing I and a few friends have done. It might be helpful to list your device. mine's a 13 pro max and has them.

GO to your siri settings, then find the voice you want, double tap on it and you should hear a preview, if not, swipe down until you hear preview and tap on that, then swipe to the right, and you should hear something about the voice downloading, wait for it to complete downloading and you're good to go.

You must not click on any other siri voice in this time otherwise it will stop downloading the last voice and download the one you've clicked on.

I don't think they are hardware dependent because the US Siri voices are the small ones on my iPhone 11. I think The system has a bug effecting some voices to showing up.

Deleting the Siri voices and rebooting the device didn't work and likely didn't even succeed on my device. I wouldn't be able to delete some Siri voices that were reported to be used by Switch Control. Not only that, any voices that I could delete by swiping up/down and finding the rotor action "Delete" for the voice, would be back in few mere seconds. Not surprising that they were waiting for me after I rebooted the device, without having to be redownloaded. So when I attempt to delete a voice, the free storage space goes up by the size of the voice, only to shrink back to something close to the free disk space available prior to the attempt.

I have a 14 Pro Max and have the US Siri voices in their new improved shrunk down, more expressive versions which I’m not sure I even prefer but not to worry, I don’t use US voices anyway. Non of the other languages have new versions available though so I’m still not sure if all of them have been released.

As I said earlier, you do find smaller versions of the voices for all the languages and dialects having Siri voices if you go to Settings>Accessibility>Spoken Content>Voices>any language having Siri voices>Siri.

I didn’t even know the smaller ones were available on macOS.
During the whole entire beta testing cycle, from Mac OS Sonoma beta one to Mac OS 14 public version, only the big siri voices would show up.
After I updated to 14.1, the big voices still showed up. After I restarted my Mac, the new smaller ones showed up.

Another question. Are the other variants for the Siri voices (available in all languages) available in spoken content?

In Siri settings, the voice I have sampled is taking ages to download. It just says, in progress, and that the voice will take effect when downloaded, but no other progress indication, on WIFI and plugged in. Under Voiceover, Speech settings, the voices are the larger ones. This is happening with American English voices, and no British voice 3 and 4 in Voiceover for me, although they reflect in Siri settings, but again, not downloading.