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Disappearing Siri voices for VoiceOver and Spoken Content

By Roberto C, 10 June, 2020

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iOS and iPadOS

There is a bug that Apple hasn't been able to fix. Ever since the first iOS 13.0 release, Siri (male or female) will work with VoiceOver and Spoken Content services for a while but eventually crashes. Once Siri's voice crashes, Spoken Content features stop working; VoiceOver at least has the decency to fallback to Samantha. Siri voices will then appear on the list as if they aren't downloaded. Sometimes you can even redownload them and have the working again for a little bit, but they'll eventually crash and stop working again.

Unfortunately the only way I have been able to solve this problem and have Siri voices working all the time with VoiceOver and Spoken Content, is by factory resetting my iPhone and iPad and setting them up as New devices. The moment I restore from a backup, whatever is causing Siri to crash gets restored as well. Something when restoring backups or transferring settings from another devices is what is causing this problem that has plagued us for many, many months.

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You are not the only one!

By Mister Kayne

3 weeks 1 day ago

Although I am late to the party in replying to your post. I have been experiencing strange things happening with Siri and VoiceOver, downloaded voices under spoken content, automations that use Siri voices. There is no end to the list of issues I am facing, voiceover focus suddenly jumps to the status bar and the only way to get out is lock/ unlock the phone. VoiceOver speech instead of on my BT, suddenly shifts to the inear speaker and when trying to send a voice message to apple support when allowing microphone access; voiceover dies and cannot be heard; have to take sighted help to get things running again. VoiceOver stops speaking suddenly. What got me here is this issue I am facing: https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ipados/updated-trouble-automations-when-triggered-shortcuts-ios-166

The latest phone I have is iPhone 12

By Mister Kayne

3 weeks 1 day ago

Yes, these issues were transfered from my SE when restoring from iCloud!

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