Add AI voices to accessibility preferences on macbook air Sonoma 14.2.1

Hi starrboogie,

Re: "Add AI voices to accessibility preferences on macbook air Sonoma 14.2.1"

In Apple Support's article (link below):

you can scroll down to "Add a new voice" for how to sample and add new voices on your Mac:

Change the voice your Mac uses to speak text - Apple Support

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Also: On Mac computers with Apple silicon,

(To see if your Mac has an Apple silicon chip, choose Apple menu > About This Mac. If a chip is listed — for example, Chip Apple M1 — then your Mac has an Apple silicon chip.)

Personal Voice on Mac can create a synthesised voice that sounds like you and speaks what you type using Live Speech

Create a Personal Voice on Mac - Apple Support

All the best :-)

Wondering if you tried sampling / adding a voice that’s not already on your Mac, or voices from other countries.

If you have already looked through these, please excuse, and check out the linked articles at the bottom...

Apple menu  > System Settings, then click Accessibility in the sidebar.

1. Click Spoken Content on the right.
2. Click the “System voice” pop-up menu, then choose Manage Voices.

• Find a voice for another language: Click the name of the language in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down on the left.)

To show more voices for the current language, such as for another country or region, you may need to scroll down on the right.

Sample a voice: Click the Play button next to the name of the voice.

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There's a (non-Apple) article online from 2021:

2 Black American Siri voices included in new Apple iPhone update

https://thegrio.com/2021/04/27/2-black-american-siri-voices-included-in-new-apple-iphone-update/

or

Check out the Siri Voices for Americans on Mac: Apple menu > System Settings > Siri > Siri Voice > Select

(Am using an earlier MacOS than you, yet the American Voice 3 there, sounds like a female voice that may suit.)

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On this (non-Apple) site you can hear "Tamira" an AI voice that may be what you are looking for:

article is also from 2021

https://www.acapela-group.com/news/african-american-english-digital-voice/

There is also a "type and talk" demo web-page, where you can test their other voices with your own input:

https://www.acapela-group.com/demos/

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If you use Apple's VoiceOver (eg: for screen-reading) you can:

Change VoiceOver voice settings on Mac - Apple Support

To customise voice settings for your default language and additional languages, open VoiceOver Utility (press VO-Fn-F8 when VoiceOver is on), click the Speech category, then click Voices.

When you install voices that are compatible with macOS, they are installed in /Library/Speech/Voices so they are available to all users of your Mac.

More info: VoiceOver User Guide for Mac - Apple Support