iOS 17 developer beta three is out!

By Levi Gobin, 5 July, 2023

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Just a message to anybody out there, iOS 17 beta three is out.

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By Cankut Değerli on Sunday, July 23, 2023 - 13:27

Thanks for the demonstration Dominic.
But I assume that these voices do not support the new noral language modal do they? Because I read in developer one thread that they can be downloadable several hours after the installation of the new OS. And they have smaller file sise. So is there a setting for the new small ones and the current ones which we are using on iOS 16?
Thanks.

By Enes Deniz on Sunday, July 23, 2023 - 13:27

So this demo of the British Siri voices let me hear the rotor action "Open Voice Settings" so apparently you have voice-specific parameters accessible through a rotor action instead of a button or something. So is this rotor action available only for voices supporting it or do you still have it for voices that don't support it? Or are these voice-specific settings things supported by and adjustable for each and every voice, like pitch and speed? By the way, why will we still need a separate eSpeakNG app or dedicated apps for other TTS engines if we now have this "Voice Settings" thing incorporated into the OS as a built-in function? So why not be able to download third-party voices by choosing a button within the voice settings and being taken to a screen where every third-party voice made available on iOS so far can be viewed and downloaded? You know, Apple already thoroughly regulates and categorizes all the software submitted by developers, so voices can be treated differently. This should also make it more convenient and much easier for everyone to have a list of all the third-party voices in one place without searching for each of them.

By Januš Kazakevič on Sunday, July 23, 2023 - 13:27

All Eloquence synthesizer English voices, when using voiceover, do not pronounce diacritic Latin symbols 'ą, č, ę, ė, į, š, ų, ū, ž' when reading text by words, lines, or continuously. However, if I change the rotor to characters, the voices read out 'ą, č, ę, ė, į, š, ų, ū, ž' just fine. When reading the text words by words, line by line, and continuously, these characters should be pronounced as 'a, c, e, e, i, s, u, u, z'. This issue as it seems to be a bug in Eloquence synthesizer.
This error has been present since the inception of the synthesizer in Apple operating systems. I have informed Apple about it, but it still hasn't been fixed. Please help create more feedback about this issue so that Apple can correct it faster.
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By ming on Sunday, July 23, 2023 - 13:27

hey! I know we have some of the Cantonese users are here in the site.
if you are joining the beta programme.
please report the very series bug.
that is:
when using Cantonese Siri voices. for voice over.
it will miss out some of the words and sentence.
please report this to apple...
I have sent the report in the feekback.
but, if we have a few users can send the report.
it will make a change