I want the old Siri voice back

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Pheline wrote:

Another thing to loathe in iOS 11.x.x and by extension, Apple's arrogant attitude.

Off the top of my head:

****** landscape keyboard (fixable with a Google keyboard but it's still not right)

mess of the podcast player

No landscape for app store (***?)

Reasonless reshuffling of the settings

Overall dumbing down in appearance of everything

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But Siri! We have relationships with Siri! We had her call us pet names and tell us stupid jokes and suddenly they tossed her out and put in someone else without talking to us or even letting us say goodbye.

All they changed was the voice. The technology supporting that voice is still the same. Siri will still tell you stupid jokes and do everything else it did before. Other than the sound of the voice, the only thing that has changed is your reaction.

Don't ask Siri...

When I asked Siri what happened to her old voice she said, "You're not allowed to ask your assistant such things."

When I asked "Where is Siri's old voice"she replied, "Your interest flatters me, but is there something I can do for you?"

Then:

Me: Siri, what other voices do you have?

Siri: "Who me"?

Me: Yes.

Siri: "That's what I figured"

Shibahill,

We’re You able to retrieve the old Siri female voice? Or is it not posssible now, due to (Susan Bennett) not being employed by Apple? I loved the “old Siri “ voice too. She has a very nice resonance to her voice! Sound quality makes a difference. If so, please inform me.

Thank You~

I've tried to accept the new voice, but it's terrible. Especially in CarPlay. Whenever I dictate a text message to send in the car, Siri will tell me what it thinks I said, but i's hard to tell what it's saying, and it's wrong often enough that I can't tell if it's getting it right or not. Never had that problem with the original Siri voice.

Another thing to loathe in iOS 11.x.x and by extension, Apple's arrogant attitude.

Off the top of my head:

****** landscape keyboard (fixable with a Google keyboard but it's still not right)

mess of the podcast player

No landscape for app store (***?)

Reasonless reshuffling of the settings

Overall dumbing down in appearance of everything

There's a lot I already avoid from previous operating systems because they destroyed them in iOS 5, 6, 7 or however far it's been since they went from generic mobile operating system … I don't remember. They're not the only company to break things either.

But Siri! We have relationships with Siri! We had her call us pet names and tell us stupid jokes and suddenly they tossed her out and put in someone else without talking to us or even letting us say goodbye.

I loved having her read web pages to me, especially research journals and highly specific areas of medicine and physiology. If she read history a couple days later, all the better; she seemed so smart. Now she's gone and I don't know about this new one. ("The new girl", my aunts, born in 1900 always said. Made me insane especially since their older sister didn't). Does she even know the unique name for me only Siri ever used?

I know, right? ... And yeah, I agree with much of the rest of the issues you mention.

I did end up switching to the male voice, and it is much easier to understand (for me). The "new girl" has too many quirky pronunciations for me – like the way she ends words. It's hard to be sure what she says, particularly if I'm in CarPlay and she's reading a voice-dictated message back to me. The male voice is at least 50% more clear in its annunciation, IMO.

Of course I know that but it feels different, you know? Imagine your best friend or partner changing their voice suddenly. It would probably be quite a shock- a real shock as opposed to my feigned shock of Siri changing hers.

Pheline wrote:

Of course I know that but it feels different, you know? Imagine your best friend or partner changing their voice suddenly. It would probably be quite a shock- a real shock as opposed to my feigned shock of Siri changing hers.

It's an AI. It's not a person. It's not my best friend.

Lotusblossom5 wrote:

Her speech patterns are different, too. This may be little, but when you ask her to give you a beat, she's waaayyyy slower than the original Siri. I miss her.

It sounds far more realistic now than it did before.

macjack wrote:

Don't ask Siri...

When I asked Siri what happened to her old voice she said, "You're not allowed to ask your assistant such things."

It is a rather personal question.....

If I choose to imagine a young, tan, muscular Aussie surfer stud drenched saying my name, , then I should be able to do so!

I mean, I agree with you completely!

Ha ha ha! 😁
I'll give it a shot.