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PeterLD

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Sep 26, 2020
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After macOS Sequoia 15 destroyed my iPod Shuffle 4th Generation I fixed it on macOS 10.15 Catalina (see my other recent post).

The only difference is the voice used for Voice Over: it is a robotic American voice (sorry, I'm British and find it hard to listen to). The previous voice had been consistent over years and was perfectly acceptable to me.

On Catalina, I tried changing the "System Voice" in Settings > Accessibility > Speech. It was already set to Daniel, which wasn't what I was hearing. I set it to a British female voice (downloaded) so a change would be unmistakeable. In the iPod sync window I switched off Voice Over, synced, switched back on and synced again. It made no difference: I still had the Dalek (sorry, British reference).

Does anyone know how I can change the Voice Over voice? Even if your answer is not for macOS Catalina it will likely help. Thanks in advance.
 
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