Thank you everyone for your assistance and especially to Michael for your 
clear detailed instructions.
I discovered that I was listening to the Samantha and now I am going to try 
the Alex voice.
Regards, Michelle Bernstein
On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 1:58:31 PM UTC-5, Michael Feir wrote:

> You don't purchase Voiceover voices on iOS devices. All the available 
> ones are free. However, you need to do a little work to get a 
> selection of them. First, you need to go to settings, general, 
> accessibility, voiceover and speech. In the speech section, you can 
> choose your default voice. You may also add additional languages to 
> the rotor. For English-speaking voices, there's UK English, 
> Audstralian, US, Irish, and South African. For many of these, you can 
> choose one voice from a few options. The US choices include Alex and 
> Samantha as well as the SIRI male and female voices. there are at 
> times compact or enhanced versions of these voices. Alex is by far the 
> largest voice clocking in at most of a gigabyte. Choose what works 
> best for you. I have the Alex, male US and female UK and Australian 
> voices on the language setting of my rotor. Hope that helps. 
>
> On 1/19/16, Edmonds, Lucy (LARA) <edmo...@michigan.gov <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Hello. I have another question about an iBook. Last week, there was an 
> iBook 
> > mentioned on this list called Mastering the Mac with Voiceover. I 
> searched 
> > for this, and can’t find it. Does anybody know if it is still available? 
> > Thanks. 
> > Lucy Edmonds 
> > 
> > From: vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto:
> vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>] On Behalf 
> > Of Mary Otten 
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 12:51 PM 
> > To: vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> 
> > Subject: Re: I Books- Basic Questions 
> > 
> > Any voice that is on your Apple device that works as a voiceover voice 
> can 
> > be used with iBooks. That would include the nuance voices, and the Alex 
> > voice, which come with your device. I think you can also purchase voices 
> for 
> > the Mac to be used with voiceover from a company called sepstrel. I'm 
> > dictating this message, so that is probably spelled wrong, but I don't 
> know 
> > how to spell it. You can buy those voices, use them with voiceover, and 
> thus 
> > with iBooks on the Mac. But on an iPhone or iPad, you cannot use, for 
> > example, voices that you purchased to go along with voice dream reader, 
> as 
> > those voices do not work as voiceover voices. So the key is, if it works 
> as 
> > a voice over voice, you can use it. If not, you cannot use it. 
> > Mary 
> > 
> > Sent from my iPhone 
> > 
> > On Jan 19, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Michelle Bernstein 
> > <hamlets...@gmail.com <javascript:><mailto:hamlets...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>>> wrote: 
> > I just started looking at the I Books app which I have never tried.  It 
> > seems that you can read books either in audio format or by having 
> Voiceover 
> > read the text of a book, although each book may not offer both options. 
> > 
> > My question is what voice or voices can be used to listen to the text of 
> an 
> > i Book?  Is it only the voice that comes with turning on Voiceover on 
> your 
> > Apple device? 
> > If you can purchase other voices, where do you go to purchase these 
> voices, 
> > how are they downloaded and how to you select another voice rather than 
> the 
> > Voiceover voice which comes with the Apple devices?  Thanks for any 
> > guidance.  Regards, Michelle Bernstein 
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