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Speech library using low quality voices?
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When I was using the old Pythonista app on iOS 8, I started using the speech library to create live listening tasks for French classes. After first using the basic voices I decided to upgrade to the high quality voices, which are sometimes actually better than the hammy voice acting that comes with a lot of school books.
At some point or other, I upgraded to iOS 9, and I don't know whether I used text to speech between then and buying the new Pythonista with both 2 and 3.
So I started using text to speech with the speech library again last week, and the low quality voices were coming out. I reinstalled the old Pythonista... same thing.
I've fiddled about with the settings on the iPad and checked the narrator in the web browser, and it's using whichever voice I like there. But Pythonista always seems to drop back to the first voice for the given language code, which is always low quality.
What's going on? Does anyone have a workaround?
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No suggestions? I'm starting a masters in Computer-Assisted Language Learning and I'm really interested in being able to look at the use of voice sythesis in the classroom as part of it.
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Seems to be an ios9.3 bug:
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/43718You could also try your hand at objc to see if there is a different voice or methods not showing up in speech module.
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Here is an objc example that you could modify...
https://gist.github.com/8381f7a28dbfade5ce1e1a69329ac4e5I have also read about some people switching back to the low quality via the settings app, then deleting/redownloading the enhanced.
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Aw boo. This an iPad mini 1, and iOS 10 won't be available on it, so it looks like I'm going to be stuck with this bug for the rest of time.
