Hi All,
I have had my Apple Watch series 10 since the beginning of January this year. I use Daniel Advanced voice and it was fine until a couple of weeks ago. However, I now have an issue which is really annoying. Daniel advanced is still working but on an imtermittent basis, I lift my arm to wake my watch or when a notification comes in or something else, the Daniel voice changes to something wierd. To try and explain, it is still Daniel (I think) but it's like I am listening to Daniel in a tunnel with a lesser quality voice and it's louder such that it's a bit scratchy and the background clicks become louder too. From time to time, the voice changes back to Daniel advanced - back to normal and when I think it's ok, then, it goes back to Daniel tunnel! Does anyone have a solution or know what's going on?
I thought updating to apple watch ios 11.5 might get rid of this as a possible glitch but it's still the same.
Steve.
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Re: Apple Watch series 10 - Daniel advanced voice changinging to
Hello,
Go into the Watch App on your phone. Select Accessibility and VoiceOver. Double tap Speech. Make sure that Improve Speech Clarity is deselected. This should help.
Thanks Malcolm, done!
Hi Malcolm,
I've done what you suggest. Sound clarity was on, so, I've toggled. I'll now double check with my watch. Hopfully it will work, thanks, you sound confident.
Steve.
Brilliant, thanks Malcolm!
Hi Malcolm,
Worked like a dream, thank you. I didn't think that that setting would make such a difference - rather than improving voice clarity, it made it worse! I don't know how it happened. I have not changed any accessibility settings either on my iPhone 16 or on the Appple Watch series 10 since I bought the watch back at the end of December last year, 2024. There have been some ios updates recently but not on the watch and not for a few weeks since 11.4.1, if I remember correctly, so, I don't know how the improved voice clarity got switched on. I'll keep an eye in the future to see if it changes magically again!
Also, I contacted Apple last week and they couldn't work out the problem, so, well done to you. I'm becoming increasingly concerned with Apple support, particularly when it comes to Voice Over issues - they simply don't seem to know anything about it or how to support disabled people at all. I wonder as they sell products which are always marketed as 'disabled friendly' with disabled people seen on their adverts as efficient users of apple products, then, at least they should know how to use and fix voice over issues and know how to support disabled users - perhaps some training in both areas is in order?
Steve.
steven carey
From what I heard from previous people about this issue, it is a pain and turning off that helps. Do not recall having it on or turning it off. I checked long time ago and it was off. Lucky for me because never had this issue.