If I use the 'Spoken Content' accessibility keyboard shortcut, I hear Siri Voice 1 (UK). But if I right-click on the text and choose 'Start Speaking' I hear a different voice (I think it's Daniel, whom I don't have enabled or even downloaded).
Here's an example: https://youtu.be/MBc9p-u4Jwk
Why is this?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.6
Here's the problem/solution to the bug: 'Start Speaking' only supports the basic non-Siri voices. I've just changed the 'Spoken Content' voice to Kate and this also changed the 'Start Speaking' voice. But when I change it to a Siri voice, and 'Start Speaking' reverts to Daniel.
Here's the problem/solution to the bug: 'Start Speaking' only supports the basic non-Siri voices. I've just changed the 'Spoken Content' voice to Kate and this also changed the 'Start Speaking' voice. But when I change it to a Siri voice, and 'Start Speaking' reverts to Daniel.
Yeah I know and, in my reply to Luis, I stated that I had Siri disabled. If I enable Siri, I get to choose a third sounding voice.
Spoken Content = Siri Voice 1 (UK)
Siri = Australian Voice 1
Start Speaking = sounds like Daniel but no way to confirm
I've got Siri disabled and, even if I enable it, the voice is different again. So there's actually three voices.
And macOS Monterey only seems to have one voice option for Spoken Content:
And regarding Safe Mode, that didn't help. It's been like this since a fresh install of Monterey on to a new SSD a few weeks ago.
I meant one drop-down menu, not one voice character. Luis Sequeira1 suggested that there are two drop-down menus and, therefore, two different places to select a voice, but that only seems to be in Ventura.
Do you not get different voices? e.g. You've got Spoken Content set to Ava but who do you hear if you choose 'Start Speaking' from the right-click menu?
Mateus109 wrote:
Do you not get different voices?
To answer this, no, I don't get different voices.
Try booting into Safe Mode then restart normally.
Probably because there are two separate settings for voice: in System Settings->Accessibility, and in Siri:
I have more than one in the drop down menu…
Luis showed two different locations and settings. One "Spoken Content" and the other "Siri and Spotlight". In Monterey, the second one is just under Siri.
In my case, Spoken Content and Start Speaking are the same. I don't have the same voices available for Siri as the others.
Seems I'm not alone: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/sk09th/cant_change_a_voice_in_texttospeech/
Thanks for posting the answer! Now we know why we could not reproduce the problem - and will know what to say if someone else asks this.
If I select any Siri voice, Spoken Content and Start Speaking are different from each other. If i choose any human voice, they are the same.
Why is the Spoken Content voice different to the Start Speaking voice?
