Does changing the international settings then mean you can't use location
features in your own country? In other words, will SIRI still know where I
live and be able to give me directions or will that be lost? I live in the US
and happen to like the Australian voice much better than the American one, but
I would still like to be able to use SIRI. Thanks.
Suzanne
----- Original Message -----
From: Cheryl Homiak
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: Using the Australian voice as default
Have you also changed to Australian in Settings > General > International >
format region? You have to do this. If you hear no difference either they don't
sound different to you or the hq voice is not yet downloaded. I don't think
there's anything that confirms to you that the hq voice is downloaded except
the difference in sound.
--
Cheryl
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Sep 27, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Suzanne Wilson <suzannemwil...@comcast.net>
wrote:
Hi,
I have the Australian voice selected in my language rotor and hear no
difference when I toggle the compact voice onn and off. How do I know if I
have actually downloaded the premium voice?
Suzanne
----- Original Message -----
From: Cheryl Homiak
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: Using the Australian voice as default
You can get the Australian voice immediately by changing the voice in
settings > General > International > format region, but the voice will be the
compact one so turning compact voice off and on will show no change in the
voice you hear though it will now be Australian. So Australian will be your
default at that point but you will only be able to access the compact voice
until the hq voice downloads. Also, even if Australian is default, if you set
another voice in the language rotor, you will of course hear that voice but it
won't become the default.
Hope this helps.
--
Cheryl
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Sep 27, 2012, at 7:48 AM, "reggie.alvar...@gmail.com"
<reggie.alvar...@gmail.com> wrote:
Cheryl,, how do you get default voice immediately? Don't you have to
wait for the Australian Karen to download?
Reggie and Brooks
On Sep 27, 2012, at 12:07 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cahom...@gmail.com> wrote:
Because just choosing the Australian voice in the rotor only gives the
compact voice which, at lleast to my ears, has a hissing or white noise sound
as she starts or stops speaking. The only way to get the hq voice is to make it
the default so that the Australian hq voice replaces the hq voice for your
former default.
--
Cheryl
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Sep 26, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Wayne Merritt <wcmerr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I just read the last 2 messages in this thread, so pardon me if I
cover something already mentioned. If people like karen so much, why
not just add her to the Language Rodar in VO settings, and then switch
to her whenever you like? Why go through the bother of changing the
international settings and having to download the HQ version of karen,
and then perhaps having to get the HQ version of the US voice again? I
suppose to each their own, but it seems easier to me to add Karen to
the language rodar and then I can have a choice of when I want to use
her. Before iOS 5, I used karen for my main voice in VO. Since iOS 5
though, the US voice has gotten a lot better, IMO. Karen is still an
option on my language rodar settings, should I want her at any point,
but I'm back to the good old US of A voice. Incidentally, I also like
the Irish English voice, and she also holds a place on my language
rodar, grin.
Jmt,
Wayne
On 9/26/12, Cheryl Homiak <cahom...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, you can use Karen. But you have to go into settings > general >
international > rformat region and choose Australia there. Then if
you want
the hq voice rather than the compact voice, you will have to be
patient
because it doesn't download the hq voice right away apparently. I
ended up
resetting my phone but it sounds like if you just give it time and
maybe
even lock the screen and put it on your charger for a while, the hq
voice
should eventually download. I haven't had any issues with having
Australia
chosen in Format Region except that siri has given me a couple of
pieces of
data in kilometers. But somebody said weather was in Celcius; that
hasn't
happened to me however. Just keep in mind that if you switch back
the hq
Samantha has tao download again so you have to wait for that to
happen.
Personally I plan to stick with Karen unless I uncover a major
problem
caused by using her.
--
Cheryl
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Sep 26, 2012, at 6:40 PM, "Joe" <jsoro...@gmail.com> wrote:
Just to be sure, I can't use Karen in the United States, right?
The HQ
Australian chick? Samantha's okay, but Karen's smoother on the
ears, not
unlike her grumpier sister. Thanks foor the info.--Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com]
On
Behalf
Of David Chittenden
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:10 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Using the Australian voice as default
The problem is that each HQ voice is a couple hundred MB. If a
person is
running an 8 GB iOS device, the memory would fill up with just
the HQ
voices
very quickly.
It would be nice if Apple would allow us to select multiple
voices, but
this
is not the case currently.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 26/09/2012, at 15:54, Victor Marques
<victormarques0...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all,
I am using an ipod 4g so Siri differences in the region
settings are
not important to me. In fact, having my settings in metric is
what I
prefer anyway.
I hope this is something that can be fixed in a future update,
allowing more choice of voices and even hopefully more than one
choice
per region.
Victor
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