Siri voice possible?

[Willian-Zhang]

Hi, this cli tool worked very well on system voices, I've noticed that macOS Siri uses a different voice than system options on some language, and they sounds much better.

My intention was to use that voice as default, use this tool to "forcibly" by-pass and set default language to that. but failed, saying WARNING: 'XXX' is not an installed voice.
(Although on iOS, It's possible by default)

Do you think It's possible to use Siri voice, even from cli?

FTR:
Language I intended to use: Japanese
Available options: Kyoko, Otoya
Siri: O-Ren
dir: /System/Library/Speech/Voices/O-RenSiri.SpeechVoice

[mklement0]

@Willian-Zhang:

Good question - unfortunately, I don't know anything about Siri voices.

voices is currently limited to the voices you see in System Preferences > Accessibility > Speech and it seems you cannot add Siri voices there.

If you find out more, do let me know.

[GoodKey]

In Catalina Siri is now listed in System Preferences > Accessibility > Speech. Does this change the situation? Would be great if the Default Language switcher tool would work with Siri.

[mklement0]

Good question, @GoodKey ; I don't have Catalina yet. Would you be willing to try (select Siri as a voice, if necessary, and then try something like voices -k Siri) and report back?

[GoodKey]

I am only using the switcher tool, so I seem to not be able to run the voices command from terminal. I am also very inexperienced with terminal, so I think I won't be of much help unfortunately.

[mvaneijgen]

Any news on this? After some digging I've found that the Siri voice (US/female) is called NoraSiri and can be found in /System/Library/Speech/Voices/NoraSiri.SpeechVoice

I've installed your application and my default voice is Siri Female US within the Accessibly > Speech and running the command

voices -k"banana"
WARNING: 'Nora Siri' is not an installed voice.

Also tried

voices -k "Siri Female"
WARNING: 'Siri Female' is not an installed voice.

voices -k "Siri Female (United States)"
WARNING: 'Siri Female (United States)' is not an installed voice.

[mklement0]

Sorry it took me so long to look into this; unfortunately, as of macOS 10.15.4, this appears not to be possible, due to lack of system API support - see this Stack Overflow question.