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dave_a Author

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Problem with Siri on iPhone XR on iOS 13.4

Although the voice for Siri on my iPhone XR is set to female British if I ask for Siri to read a page of text It reads with a Male voice all the time. Does anyone have the same problem and how can it be fixed?

Posted on Apr 4, 2020 10:02 AM

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Leanne_68

Community Specialist

Posted on Apr 7, 2020 10:54 AM

Hi dave_a,

Thank you for posting in the Apple Support Communities. I understand the voice used for Siri and spoken content do not match. It sounds like you'll need to adjust your speech settings.

"Change the speech settings

Go to Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content.
Adjust any of the following:

- Speak Selection: To hear text you selected, tap the Speak button.
- Speak Screen: To hear the entire screen, swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen.
- Speech Controller: Show the controller for quick access to Speak Screen and Speak on Touch.
- Highlight Content: iPhone can highlight words, sentences, or both as they’re spoken. You can change the highlight color and style.
Typing Feedback: You can configure typing feedback for the onscreen and external keyboards and choose to have iPhone speak each character, entire words, auto-corrections, auto-capitalizations, and typing predictions.
- To hear typing predictions, you also need to go to Settings > General > Keyboards, then turn on Predictive.
- Voices: Choose a voice and dialect.
- Speaking Rate: Drag the slider.
- Pronunciations: Dictate or spell out how you want certain phrases to be spoken."

You'll find more information regarding speech settings linked below.

* Hear iPhone speak the screen, selected text, and typing feedback

Cheers!

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