Learn how to change Siri's voice on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and HomePod so you can try different accents and genders and set the one you like.
How to change Siri’s voice on your Apple devices
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iOS 14.3 lets you ask Siri to play sounds of animals, vehicles, instruments and more
iOS 14.3, which arrived yesterday, includes a new Siri feature that allows the digital assistant to play various sounds on demand, including sounds of animals, vehicles, instruments and more.
You can now text your requests to Alexa for iOS
As first spotted by The Ambient, users of Amazon's Alexa app for the iPhone and iPad can now send their requests to the assistant via text messages instead of only using their voice.
Twitter expands voice tweets on iOS, transcription functionality in the works
Twitter's been conducting a limited test of a voice-tweeting feature since June, and now it's announced an expansion to more beta testers on iOS, a sign that voice-tweeting is nearing its public launch. In addition, it's acknowledged that a new transcription feature is in development.
How to share your ETA in Apple Maps with Siri
As you follow turn-by-turn driving directions in Apple Maps on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you have the option to let others know your estimated time of arrival (ETA). That being said, however, responsible drivers shouldn't really be taking their eyes off the wheel to tap through the menus. Thankfully, in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, you can ask Siri to share your ETA, hands-free. In this tutorial, you're going to learn how to share your ETA in Apple Maps with Siri.
Twitter is now starting to test the ability to send private voice messages
Twitter has kicked off another limited test of a feature designed to let you send a private voice message to someone through the app's Direct Messages feature.
How to display whatever Siri says as text on the screen of your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or Mac
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to display anything Siri says to you on the screen of your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.
How to always show speech transcriptions of your Siri requests
The compact Siri interface shows the assistant as an animated orb overlaid on top of your current context instead of taking up the whole display. By default, your iPhone or iPad does not show a real-time Siri transcription of your speech. Thankfully, you can change that and have Siri type what you speak.
Follow along with us as we show you how to enable live Siri transcriptions of your requests so you can verify that an iPhone or iPad is interpreting your requests accurately.
Useful keyboard shortcuts for the Voice Memos app on Mac
Learn how to easily control the app and your recordings with these handy keyboard shortcuts for the Voice Memos app on your Mac.
Siri voice in Germany gets a quality boost thanks to machine learning
Siri in Germany has finally received upgraded voices almost three years after the English voices were significantly improved when iOS 11 launched back in 2017.
How to save all your voice recordings with the current location name on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Learn how to set the Voice Memos app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to save all your new voice recordings with the current location name.
iOS 14: downloadable custom voice synthesizers to replace built-in speech voices
Apple is said to be working on a new framework in iOS 14 that would permit developers to provide custom text-to-speech synthesizers to replace iOS's default speech voice.