Quality of Siri Voices on Ventura

By Maldalain, 25 October, 2022

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So I updated to Ventura today, and I can confirm that the quality of Siri voices have declined with this release. I feel like that voices are less expressive in this release, so anyone has noticed this? I enjoyed reading using the Siri voices and now I regret I updated.

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By Glenn on Monday, November 14, 2022 - 15:54

I just upgraded to Ventura and noticed that the voices are poor as well. The reason seems to be that high-quality voices (if you downloaded them) are not preserved in the upgrade.

To fix this, go to System Settings/Accessibility/Spoken Content and click on the System Voice combo box (in my case it is Samantha). In the pop up menu, select "Manage Voices..." to download the high quality voices.