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No sound on iPhone6
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Have you tried rebooting the device? If it's some sort of caching issue, that might help.
For me, it somehow doesn't make any difference whether I select Anna (Default) or Anna (Enhanced) – "Kreis Rastatt" is always pronounced with a sharp S (and there doesn't seem to be any difference between the voices), no matter if I let it speak text in Pythonista or using the "Speak Selection" feature in another app. Not sure what's going on there...
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@omz Even after rebooting my iPad, Pythonista uses the high-quality Anna even though I have the low-quality one selected.
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If I delete "Anna (Erweitert)" in iOS 9.2.1, I got the poor sound quality. If I install "Anna (Erweitert)" again, I got the better sound quality.
On iOS 9.3 I always got the poor quality. I have updated another iOS device to iOS 9.3 and always the poor quality. And I did run an additonal reboot.
With another app Copilot (for navigation) I have the same problem like with Pythonista.
If I ask the system to read a selected text and "Anna (Erweitert)" is selected, I got the same poor quality. If I select "Siri-Weiblich (Erweitert)" it sounds nice and "Rastatt" is pronounced like "Raschtatt".
Maybe a bug with iOS 9.3? -
I just updated my iPad Pro to 9.3.1 but unfortunatly the problem still exists as described above.
All people I met with an iOS 9.3.x had the same problem! -
@dgelessus said:
@omz Even after rebooting my iPad, Pythonista uses the high-quality Anna even though I have the low-quality one selected.
Are you using 9.3 and how can you distinguish the good and the not so good speech quality?
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I was on 9.2.1 - Apple pulled the 9.3 update for some iPads (including mine) because of... something, so I couldn't update until recently. Now I'm on 9.3.1. As far as I can tell now it doesn't use the "enhanced" versions at all. I can switch from Anna to the Siri voices (which say Raschtatt instead of Rassstatt, so maybe that works for you) but if I select the "enhanced" version it sounds exactly like the normal one.
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@dglessus
Thank you for your answer. It looks like we are now in the same state with iOS 9.3One problems is I can not select any voice in Pythonista. Or am I wrong?
And if I select a voice I get "Anna (Standard)" instead of "Anna (Erweitert". And the "Anna (Standard)" sounds a little bit like Anna has an cold!Maybe the interface has changed in iOS 9.3 and the interface now allows to select a voice, but default is "Anna (Standard)" for German?
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The only way to select a voice from Pythonista is to give it a language code like
speech.say("Kreis Rastatt", "de-DE")
, but there is no option to select exactly what voice to use.The iOS speech settings kind of work - if I select one of the Siri voices instead of Anna it uses that. But for all voices it sounds like it uses the "standard" version even if I have the "enhanced" version selected.
PS:
Did some more testing. I enabled an option in the accessibility settings to show a "Speak" option in the text selection menu (next to Cut, Copy, Paste, etc.) If I type the text "äöüäöüöüöü" into the search field of the settings app and "speak" it, there is a difference between standard and enhanced Anna. (The enhanced version tries to do intonation, the standard version doesn't.) If I type the same text in any text field in Pythonista and "speak" it there, it always uses the standard Anna. This makes no sense...
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https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/43718 might be relevant...
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@dgelessus
The same for me.Before that I tested App "Setup" I tried it with App "Note". And in App "Note" with iOS 9.3 I always get "Anna (Standard)".
@JonB thank you for this link!