How to change the Speech voice in Text to Speech

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How to change the Speech voice in Text to Speech

I am trying to change the Text to speech voice for reading web pages through the speech option. For this I changed the voice in the system preferences and accessibility, but this doesn't change the voice of the speech. There are no YouTube tutorials as well, I saw a youtube tutorial, and apparently that person also seems to have the same problem, so he changed the approach to converting the text to recorded audio file. That is nasty way around. Is it known issue, or am I a following wrong steps? I have OS Big Sur, and latest 2021 Mac Pro 13" M1 chip.

Posted on Sep 2, 2021 9:28 PM

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Answer 1

Brian_P7

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Sep 3, 2021 4:16 PM in response to AppleNueb

Hey there AppleNueb,

We would be happy to assist you with your MacBook Pro.

Here is how to Change the voice your Mac uses to speak text

If that does not change the voice like you requested, try the steps here in Voices pane of the Speech category

You can learn more about Accessibility here.

If you are still unable to use the desired voice, Get Support here.

Take care!

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AppleNueb Author

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Sep 4, 2021 6:37 PM in response to Brian_P7

I believe this is a bug in the Mac book Pro Big Sur. Follow these steps:

Open any web browser
Select some text and right-click
select Speech from the menu, the default voice is some male voice.
Now go to accessibility and Chance the voice from "Spoken Content" to Siri 1 (Female voice)
Now go back to the browser, and select some text->right click -> speech
The voice is still same male voice and we still can't hear the new voice for the speech

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Answer 3

Sep 6, 2021 11:50 AM in response to AppleNueb

Hello AppleNueb,

Thank you for the information!

If you are still unable to get the voice to change, the next step would be to Get Support here.

Have a great day!

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