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Downloading Apple High-Quality Multilingual Voices for VoiceOver with Mac OS 10.12 Sierra
High-quality multilingual voices for VoiceOver on Mac OS 10.12 Sierra may be downloaded for free from Apple.
Each voice corresponds to a male or female first name.
The English dialects voices include
Allison (American English),
Ava (American English),
Samantha (American English),
Samantha Compact (American English),
Susan (American English),
Karen (Australian English),
Karen Compact (Australian English),
Lee (Australian English),
Daniel (British English),
Daniel Compact (British English),
Kate (British English),
Oliver (British English),
Serena (British English),
Veena (Indian English),
Veena Compact (Indian English),
Moira (Irish English),
Moira Compact (Irish English),
Fiona (Scottish English),
Fiona Compact (Scottish English),
Tessa (South-African English),
and Tessa Compact (South-African English).
Additional languages include
Arabic,
Czech,
Chinese (China),
Chinese (Hong Kong SAR),
Chinese (Taiwan),
Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Flemish (Belgium),
French (Canada),
French (France),
German,
Greek, Hindi,
Hebrew (Israel),
Hungarian, Indonesian,
Italian,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak,
Spanish (Argentina),
Spanish (Colombia), Japanese, Korean,
Spanish (Mexico),
Spanish (Spain),
Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.
There are two qualities for certain voices:
premium (high-quality) and compact (low-quality).
The space required on your computer for each high-quality voice is about 300 to 500MB.
In order to download Apple voices,
you must be connected to Internet.
The time for downloading a voice depends on your connection.
To download a new voice:
Turn VoiceOver on by pressing Cmd + F5, then
Press Ctrl + Opt + F8 (on Macbook Fn + Ctrl + Opt + F8) to open VoiceOver Utility, then
Go to the Menu bar by pressing Ctrl + Opt + m, then
Go to "View" with the Right Arrow, then
Go to "Speech" with the Down Arrow, then
Press Ctrl + Opt + Spacebar, then
Go to the List of Voice pop-up menu by pressing a few times Ctrl + Opt + Right Arrow or Ctrl + Opt + Left Arrow, then
Select "Customize…" by moving with the Down Arrow, then
Press Ctrl + Opt + Spacebar, then
Press a few times Ctrl + Opt + Right Arrow to go to the voice table,
then
Select the voice you want to download by moving with the Down and Up Arrows, then
If you want to hear how the voice sounds like, press Ctrl + Opt + Right Arrow to go to the "Play" button and press
Ctrl + Opt + Spacebar to click the button or
If you want to download the voice interact with it by pressing Ctrl + Opt + Shift + Down Arrow twice, then press Ctrl + Opt + Spacebar to check the checkbox, then press Ctrl + Opt + Shift + Up Arrow twice to stop interacting, then press the Return key.
To quickly change speech settings (rate, pitch, volume, intonation, voice):
Press Ctrl + Opt + Cmd + Right arrow to open the Speech rotor, then
Select settings by using Ctrl + Opt + Cmd + Up and Down arrows.
This command may be used to change voice very quickly.
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Last Update: August 13, 2017