Vocalizer is becoming very unreliable on iOS, pay attention!
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Diego Gomez
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Diego Gomez
SoImjustgonnamakeitspellallthewordsnowhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahowaboutthat?
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Diego Gomez
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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Diego Gomez
OksoletsgettodoingthisohandIdon’tthinkthisisgonnaworkoutverywellandIthinkthisisgonnabeallinonewordandletsseewhathappenswhenIdothisandwe’regonnamakethisbebrokenhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahowisthisforbreakingit?
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Gordon
I've noticed as of late when I use the Samantha voice my battery drains quicker and the phone actually gets a little warm. Samantha used to be one of the most efficient voices on the iPhone. So now I either use Alex or eloquence. And I have always used the Samantha compact voice, and it's never heated up my phone until the past six months or so.
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Diego Gomez
Even Samantha is affected too. Not sure how anyone can stand that voice in general, but yeah.
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Diego Gomez
Samantha just sounds way too overly stern and aggressive in my opinion. I just can’t stand it!
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Tracey D
I thought I was alone on taking this seriously!
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Diego Gomez
Nope, you’re not the only one. That issue annoyed me so much with iOS 13 through 15 that I was so glad they added eloquence with iOS 16. That one I can definitely tolerate! At least it doesn’t spell out anything at all, and tries to at least pronounce it as best as it can.
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Tracey D
I guess this is a vocalizer thing only, right? I don't have that problem with other TTS voices.
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Diego Gomez
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Diego Gomez
Also, it doesn’t just affect all the English voices of vocalizer and Siri, but it also affects the other languages.
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Landon 205
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Diego Gomez
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Ronan
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Ronan
Flexing with Google premium voices hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Diego Gomez
What is up with all those Google voices as well? Did I break it?
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Lemuria
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Diego Gomez
You are correct. Samantha is vocalizer. Eloquence is light on resources because it doesn’t use a large database of recordings.
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Tracey D
I don't think personal Voice has the bug.
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Tracey D
But the thing is, I never like vocalizer in general in the first place. Also, they didn't have my native language until iOS 15 or 16... I don't remember exactly when they added my language, but the voice is trash!
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Diego Gomez
I just think Vocalizer sounds very dry compared to something like Eleven Labs.
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Lemuria
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Diego Gomez
Maybe that was Tru back in the day in some Betas I think. I don’t know, but I know a lot of the voices do take up a lot of storage, which can be CPU intensive, depending on the voice. Also, have you tried the community dictionary option with eloquence?
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Diego Gomez
I’ll tell you something that definitely did break in vocalizer, the way that the word, characters, is spoken. It also happens in the word, clarity. It’s no longer pronounced correctly like it used to.
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Diego Gomez
By the way, I wanted to let you know, personal voice really does drain a lot of your battery intensively. That’s why I’m not doing a personal voice of my own.
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Lemuria
Never heard of the community dictionary for eloquence. I'll have to look at that.
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Diego Gomez
Yeah, you should give it a try. It does fix a lot of necessary pronunciations. When it comes to operating systems though, something happened when one of the recent ones were compiled, just letting you know. These are ran on GitHub, so I’m sure that can be fixed since they are updated monthly. I personally have the community dictionary turned on.
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Diego Gomez
Glad that there’s a dedicated team managing the community dictionaries over there! But yeah, when reading operating systems, like iOS or macOS, there’s currently a bug present where it tries to pronounce them like whole words, which I’m sure somebody can address in the issues section on GitHub. You could also suggest new entries if anything needs to be added as well, which I’ve contributed a whole lot of them last November.
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Lemuria
Hey Diego thank you for the info. I just turned on the community dictionary and now a lot of things aren't gonna sound weird. Lol thank you!
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Diego Gomez
Awesome! Glad it’s working out for you quite nicely! And you can thank me for a lot of the contributions lol. There were some names that definitely needed to be there. Hope you continue to see lots more pronunciation improvements now.
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Diego Gomez
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Diego Gomez
Here’s a challenge for you all! Can your VoiceOver, depending on the voice you use, and feel free to test this with multiple voices if you want to, but can you read these big long names properly? I used Chat gpt to do this. Here is the test. Let’s see if it misses any characters or how it really interprets them. Here we go. Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän. Betäubungsmittelverschreibungsverordnung. Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung. Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz. Telekommunikationsdienstleistungsunternehmen. Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung.
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Diego Gomez
Oh wait, then why is it being read out with vocalizer from iOS 12 perfectly then compared to iOS 13 and above? That doesn’t make sense. Especially Telekommunikationsdienstleistungsunternehmen.
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