I have noticed that some apps have additional voices available to them that are not present in Voiceover.
Here in the UK apps like KNFBREADER have a voice called Arthur listed. This voice is prefixed with the letters IOS and has Standard and enhanced varieties.
I also have additional voices for English Australia. IOS Gordon for example.
The prefix IOS and the fact that there are Normal and Enhanced versions of these voices leads me to suspect they are stock Apple voices.
So my questions are these:
If they are Apple stock voices why are they not available to Voiceover.
If they are not stock Apple voices where might they have come from, what app is likely to have installed them.
Thanks.
Malcolm
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Wondering the Same Thing
I've actually been wondering the same thing, more or less. I am using a MacBook Air running the latest build of OS Sierra, and have recently been wondering where some of Siri's voices are from and whether or not they can be gotten from anywhere for use with VoiceOver. I really like the VO voices that Apple has made available to us thus far, but they say that variety is the spice of life. More voices would therefore be cool, but I'm not complaining by any means. I know that a lot of the voices used in Capti Voice Narrator are from Ivona, and I think those are available for commercial use only from Ivona's website.
It might be a matter of
It might be a matter of giving other names to voices. For example Daniel could be that British English voice that we are all familiar with, so in KNFB it is given the name Arthur. It might be the same with other voices. I can't remember exactly, but I had an application that gives different names to voices.