Hello everyone. I'm from China.
I have been using iPhone since 2012.
I really appreciate Apple's exquisite hardware and software products.
I am currently using an iPhone 14 with iOS 18.3.1.
As Apple's Chinese users, we had a terrible problem.
Since the iOS voice engine was upgraded to the Cerence version, all Chinese voices have no real high-definition optimized sound quality voice.
Although there are many Chinese voice roles, and each character also has different specifications of variants to choose from, in fact, the current so-called optimized sound quality and high sound quality Chinese voice are modified using the default sound quality, that is, Compact sound quality. This can be heard in terms of listening effect. And the optimized sound quality and high sound quality of Chinese are only 10-40mb size, which is completely inconsistent with the situation of Chinese high-definition voice, the previous Nuance Chinese high-definition optimized sound quality voice is 100-200mb size, from the relatively old Yu-Shu and Li-Mu two voice roles in iOS can be seen.
This only happens on all Chinese voices, including Chinese Simplified, Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, and all Chinese dialect voices.
I don't know why Cerence doesn't provide Apple with real Chinese high-definition optimized voice quality, and only Chinese high-definition voice, which is really unfair to Chinese users.
I don't know if my post is useful here. Apple attaches great importance to the Chinese market and really hopes that Apple can fight for the rights it deserves for Chinese users and let Cerence provide high-definition voice to Apple.
Our Chinese users generally do not speak English well, many people are not good at using web pages, so no one has called for this, there are still a few months, iOS19 will enter the release cycle, if we don't speak out, the future iOS version will still only have unclear Chinese voice provided, Chinese users will still be treated unfairly.
Finally, thank you for reading my post.
By Alan, 15 February, 2025
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I also need to post a few…
I also need to post a few new bugs for VoiceOver. I only found these bugs in the Chinese environment, and I can't be sure whether other languages ​​will have these bugs.
1. In iOS18.3.1, VoiceOver's pronunciation replacement rules do not take effect. This problem does not exist in iOS17.
2. Once the active rules for VoiceOver are created, the voice will be restored to the default voice of the current language after VoiceOver is restarted, and the voice selected by the voice rotor cannot be maintained.
3. When Siri voice reads a single character, it will read it with the default voice parameters. For example, I set the speech rate to 100 and the volume to 10. When I browse a single character, it will still read it with the parameters of 50 speech rate and 100 volume.
4. VoiceOver sets typing feedback and prompts the typed characters with tone. Siri voice cannot correctly read the typed characters with different tones.