[TECH TIPS] Re: Alex TTS Compatibility on iOS 8
- From: Carter Temm <crtbraille@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:15:53 -0400
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> On Sep 19, 2014, at 9:12 PM, Seyoon Choi <syc20099@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Hope everyone is doing well!
> So far, we have discussed a lot about Alex voice not appearing under
> settings, general, accessibility, VoiceOver, speech and English US. I will
> try to clarify that issue here.
> So to get started, all iOS 8 running devices should have default and enhanced
> quality voice. This (TTS) text to speech voice is Samantha that was developed
> my Nuance. This voice may seem very common to all VoiceOver users because
> this is default TTS for English US. Lot of us got use to Samantha, but Apple
> has added some additional function to the VoiceOver on iOS 8. Now you can
> download new TTS As of now, the only TTS you can download is Alex, which is
> a high quality TTS voice. This voice will be very familiar to you if you are
> a Mac user. However, a lot of users who updated there devices to an iOS 8 did
> not see an option to download Alex onto their devices. Just to recap, here is
> a compatible iOS devices that can run iOS 8.
>
> iPhone models
> iPhone 4S
> iPhone 5
> iPhone 5C
> iPhone 5S
> iPhone 6
> iPhone 6 Plus
>
> iPad models
> iPad 2
> iPad 3 (Retina display)
> iPad 4 (Retina display)
> iPad Air
> iPad-mini
> iPad-mini second generation (with retina display)
>
> iPod-touch 5th generation
>
> I see an Alex on both of my devices, which is iPhone 5S and iPad Air.
> I first thought that when your running iOS 8 on your device, you are
> automatically getting an Alex along with rest of the feature.
> However, according to the multiple sources including AppleVis, it's been
> confirmed that Alex voice is not available if you don't ave an iPhone 5S or
> above, iPad Air or above and iPad-mini second generation (with retina
> display) or above. I'm sorry to say this.
> I have talked to multiple devices who doesn't have an iPhone 5S, iPad Air and
> iPad-mini 2 and there all saying that there isn't an Alex voice listed. Well
> I think the reason why that they did is maybe because Alex requires a lot of
> processing power to run smoothly. iPhone 5S, iPad Air, and iPad mini 2 all
> have Apple's A7 chip. So I think any device below A7 chip such as an iPhone
> 5C, 5, 4S, iPad 4, 3, 2, iPad mini, and iPod-touch won't get an Alex.
>
> Also keep in mind that Alex takes 816MB of your device internal storage space
> and possibly even larger in the future. So far, I have been trying on my iPad
> Air and it's very human sounding while keeping that same responsiveness from
> Samantha.
>
> So hope I clarify this issue for all of you!
> If you have any questions, concerns or anything, just reply to this message
> and we are here to help you.
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