Alex Voice Fails to Automatically Enable After First Being Downloaded
Category
VoiceOver Speech/Voices
Severity
Minor
Description
Upon first downloading the Alex TTS Voice, VoiceOver fails to switch automatically from the voice in use while the Alex download was in progress.
Bug First Encountered
iOS 8.0 or earlier
Device(s) bug has been encountered on
iPhone 6 Plus
iPhone 6
iPhone 5s
iPad Mini 2
How often the bug occurs
Always
Workaround
Disable VoiceOver, then re-enable it. If no success, switch away from and back to the Alex voice and restart VoiceOver again.
Status
Fixed
Fixed In
iOS 8.3
Comments
Still can't activate Alex
Even after trying the suggested actions above I cannot switch to Alex or to any other voice but the enhanced 156MB high-quality U.S. English voice.
Finally got Alex to speak
I got some sighted help to deselect and re-select the Alex voice while VO was disabled/off. After restarting VO Alex began speaking.