Hi Everyone
I am having an issue on my iPhone 15 Plus where the speaking rate will not adjust. I have tried with both Alex and Samantha, and the issue occurs with both of these voices. I am on ios 18.3, but this has been happening on earlier versions as well.
I'm not sure what is causing this, but both the rotor action and the setting in the speech settings are broken.
I have restarted my device multiple times to difference, and also reported it to Apple, using the feedback assistant, but the issue has not been fixed.
Also my braille screen input keeps inputting for instead of y or other contractions that use 5 dots. Have also tried restarting and re-calibrating, but this does not fix it.
Both of these issues make me very frustratf with a device i use daily and I am put off using it because of these.
Can anyone help?
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Seen this
I put up a post on this at the start of 2024. Exactly the same speech rate issue. However, for me when I added speech rate to the rotor I could adjust the speed. This was in 17.3 or so. Never did fix the settings side justs suddenly started working on an update at some point. So, maybe worth removing speech rate from your phone, hard reset then re-add that option to the rotor and see if it works. Regarding settings part no think you would just have to wait.
Pro tip
If you are attempting to adjust speech rate for your primary VoiceOver voice, you may be able to get away with just adjusting speaking rate in the VoiceOver settings. Go to settings, accessibility, VoiceOver, and just scroll down until you see, "Speaking Rate".
HTH.
Brian
For me that was the setting that didn't work. It was very odd. At the time I had a 13 pro and thinking about it I upgraded in April to the 15 pro and don't recall this issue after that. So wonder if it is a glitch with older phones that some people have. It was the primary voice though. Twas a strange one.
Possibly
I do know that in iOS 18, there are at least four ways of adjusting speaking rate. The way I mentioned above, through the rotor, through a quick Settings, and through the independent voice settings.
So yeah, have fun with that. Lol
Brian - none of those work
I have tried all 4 methods, and none of them work. it says the speaking rate is changing, but the rate is not increasing.
Wow
Well, I am all out of ideas then. I have never experienced an inability to adjust speaking rate using one of the aforementioned methods.
It might be time for you to do a Settings reset. I know absolutely nobody here likes doing that, or even hearing that, but that may very well be the only way to fix this for you. 🫤
Thanks, I'll give that a go
*sigh* i suppose i'll have to haha, but if it works then that's great!! i'll let you know how it goes
Speech Rate
Eish, sorry about your challenges. I never experienced a problem with the speech rate, and braille Screen Input either. But maybe with the BSI, try switching from contracted braille to uncontracted one.
Settings reset worked - at least for the speech rate so far
Brian, thanks, this seems to have fixed things - but now i need to reset everything lol!
Definitely worth it though!
Hopefully it will have fixed the braille screen input as well :)
Thanks so much1
That is the story of Apple's life
When in doubt, reset! On a sidenote, make sure you enable the BSI activation gesture under settings, accessibility, VoiceOver, braille, otherwise the two finger double tap on the screen edge will not activate BSI, since you reset settings.
Just a friendly neighborhood pro tip. 😃✌️