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Q: speak auto text talking too fast

When using the speak auto-text feature the speaking rate for the voice is stuck on fast setting....even if I have it set to the lowest possible setting. I am using a brand new iPhone 6 plus and it was also happening on my older iPhone 4. Siri talks just fine, but if typing something and the auto correct feature kicks in, the Siri voice blurts out the word like on fast forward. I have gone into settings>general>accessibility>speech and use the slider bar to go to a lower setting and no matter what it's set to it doesn't change anything. Tried force closing the iPhone and nothing seems to work to slow down the speech.

And it's not just on my phone. The exact same problem on my girlfriend's phone as well. She also has the iPhone 6 plus 128gb.

I try the different languages and the slider bar to control the speed works just fine in every language except for English. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

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iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8.1.2

Posted on Dec 15, 2014 2:53 AM

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  • by kaaka,

    kaaka kaaka Jan 8, 2015 6:57 PM in response to reewinder
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    Jan 8, 2015 6:57 PM in response to reewinder

    I had a similiar problem on my ipad 4 with iOs 8 and I think this may help

    Settings-General-Accessibility-Speech-Voices-English-Enhanced Quality

     

    - K.

  • by reewinder,

    reewinder reewinder Jan 8, 2015 11:19 PM in response to kaaka
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    Jan 8, 2015 11:19 PM in response to kaaka

    We tried that and it didn't change anything. Even the voice didn't change. So I just now tried installing the Alex voice and it doesn't change anything either. It was still the exact same voice. You would think the Alex voice would be a guys voice but it was still the same fast talking Siri voice. So I tried powering down the phone by holding down the home button and power button until the Apple logo shows up and wait for it to reset. Still no success. Alex still sounds like the broken Siri voice. Tried some of the other English language voices like UK and south Africa and still no success. I have spoken with 2 different Apple technicians on the phone and they keep referring it to another department higher up the food chain. It's been a couple weeks now and I don't think they are going to call me back.

    So it's doing this on my iPhone 6 plus and my girlfriend's iPhone 6 plus and just out of curiosity I checked to see if it was doing it on our iPad mini 2 and sure enough it was. I don't even use the feature but my girlfriend insists on using it on her devices and it always scares the crap out of me when Siri screams out gibberish when trying to autocorrect a word. There's no volume control for Siri so whenever we're in a nice quiet setting and out of nowhere this screaming voice on fast forward blurts out......"Capital I.....Capital, Capital, Capital I. She usually stutters the word a couple times and it can really make a person jump when this happens.

    I guess I'll have to call Apple back about this.

  • by turkeyburgers,

    turkeyburgers turkeyburgers Aug 28, 2015 2:13 PM in response to kaaka
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    Aug 28, 2015 2:13 PM in response to kaaka

    Thank you!

  • by kaylynuke,

    kaylynuke kaylynuke Aug 28, 2015 6:19 PM in response to reewinder
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    Aug 28, 2015 6:19 PM in response to reewinder

    Did you try turning autocorrect off? Or do you need to have it on? Your snap shows you have speak auto text turned off. Does it still do it once that is turned off?

  • by CandyVape,

    CandyVape CandyVape Oct 23, 2015 7:51 PM in response to reewinder
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    Oct 23, 2015 7:51 PM in response to reewinder

    I had a similar issue. Whenever I’m in Chrome and would highlight text and press speak, siri would go lightning fast. I went to an Apple store. The guy asked me to try it in Safari and low and behold it worked just fine. I'm not sure if that's where you're having the issue but switching to Safari did the trick for me.. Good Luck...D

  • by Krispru1,

    Krispru1 Krispru1 Apr 14, 2016 1:02 PM in response to reewinder
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    Apr 14, 2016 1:02 PM in response to reewinder

    I just figured out this one. Its been driving me crazy for a while

    General - Accessibility - Audio descriptions - turn Prefer Audio  descriptions Off/

  • by Allycatsq1970,

    Allycatsq1970 Allycatsq1970 Sep 22, 2016 4:27 AM in response to reewinder
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    Sep 22, 2016 4:27 AM in response to reewinder

    I Know how to fix this problem.

    1st, General>Accessibilit>Speach> and slow down Speach rate. THEN go into >Audio Descriptions and turn >Prefer Audio Descriptions ON.

    This will fix the problem - even on iPhone 6S plus.