Voice over - female British

I used to be able to select British female accent for my iPhone 4. Is this not possible anymore?

Step One: Go to the settings page on your iPhone 4S.
Step Two: Tap on General to go to the General settings page. This is where you’ll find Siri.
Step Three: Tap on Siri to enter the settings for Siri. You’ll find some languages listed:
Step Four: Select “English (United Kingdom)” and you’re done.
The female Siri voice will magically (not quite) turn into male voice with the English accent.
Vice-versa!

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When I use voice over to read an epub in my Ibooks app, which is in Dutch, sometimes he start reading a book with an English Female voice and some books he reads with the Dutch male voice (which is good). All my epubs are Dutch books. Can i fix this probl

when I use voice over to read an epub in my Ibooks app, which is in Dutch, sometimes he start reading a book with an English Female voice and some books he reads with the Dutch male voice (which is good). All my epubs are Dutch books so the English voice sound terrible trying to pronounce Dutch. Can i fix this problem? Thanks, Tom

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I use Garageband 09 to record voice overs via podcasting, female narrator noisy, but keep getting an intermittent clicking sound. It's not the metronome. I have a good quality external USB mic plugged in. Any ideas?

I use GarageBand 09 to record voice overs via the Podcasting then Female Narrator Noisy utility. I have a good quality external mic plugged in. I keep getting an intermittent clicking sound on the audio track. It's not the metronome as that is turned off. I have to edit out the clicking after recording. I can see the spikes on the waveline. Any ideas how I can prevent this happening?

Hi again and thanks so much for replying.
The 'mic jack' on the old mic is both wide and large, measuring about an inch and a quarter from the base (where it comes out of the black encasing) to the edge of the tip (sort of cone shaped). As I can't plug this in directly to any port in the back of the Mac, I thought it might be possible to to buy some sort of adapter so that I could plug in the jack at one end, with a USB connector at the other end to go straight into the Mac. But I see from your comment that you are suggesting a smaller jack itself (i.e., large size jack to small size jack and then plug in to the small round port, instead of jack to USB port)?
At the Mac shop I bought a USB adapter to connect up a second monitor (screen). I've just dug out the package and it's called a mini display port to VGA adapter. But back to the mic issue, I don't want to use the old mic really, I'm just trying to eliminate whether or not my usual mic, or its USB cable, is at fault and causing the clicking.
I looked on Amazon for a suitable adapter but there was mention of these little gadgets having a sound card. As the Mac obviously has its own internal sound card, I couldn't see the point of another (exernal) one, unless it was actually required to convert the sound from input to output (playback) or something. One review said sound quality was lost but the person had a problem with his speakers, not a ticking sound while playing back recordings - which is obviously my problem.
I do have a headset that I used to use for Skype. It has a pink and a green jack. I could plug one into the "headphones symbol' port and try recording again with Garageband. At least the jack is the right size. Again, this is just for the purpose of eliminating whether my good mic on a stand with the anti-popping sheild is at fault.
While my Mac does have both inbuilt speakers (I don't need external ones) and an inbuilt microphone, the latter is not of a high enough quality for voice overs, hence buying an external mic etc. But whatever is causing the clicking or ticking is obviously affecting the quality of my recordings. As you can imagine, it is very time-consuming to edit out the ticking spikes and if the noise appears during speech, you can't edit it out at all.
Please keep the suggestions coming. I am determined to get to the bottom of this for my sake and everyone else who is suffering from the same problem!

Male Voice over not Female

I have a mac and also pc. I did have it synced to a pc then switched to MAC. Now I have a man's voice in voice over. I can't find how to change this back to woman's voice.
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If you change your language to something like French, it will speak with a womans voice. Whats more, it will speak the english words with a French accent.
You can also go to your system preferences and change the voice being used to a womans voice (you can also change the speed of speech, etc.). Here are the steps to get you going:
1- In iTunes, go to ipod summary page. Turn off voiceover and sync.
2- At same screen, check "Use system voice instead of built-in voice". Click sync and quit iTunes.
3- Click "System Preferences" in application bar
4- Click "Speech"
5- Make your adjustments. There are a few female voices to choose from.
6- Run iTunes. Turn on voiceover and click sync. Your new voice selections should now be what is loaded on your Nano for the voiceover feature.
i

Is it possible to change voice back to female in voice over in ios5?

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recently upgraded ipad to iOS 5 from 4, my sister is blind and requires voice over to use ipad. but she can't stand the new voice so is it possible to change it back to the female from iOS 4 or downgrade to iOS4. Thanks

Mysterious voice over when no key pressed

Hi, randomly i am getting a voice over that says 'please type your message in the text box and ....". This is happening when i am browsing something on the internet. Following is the url that is open at that time in safari.
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-90280.html
1) Voice over is not enabled. 2) Voice over voice is Alex, while what i hear is a female voice.
I also heard this once previously but ignored it because i thought i was pressing some key combination. This time however, i was not touching keyboard.
I have Witch installed, which seems to require enabling assistive device support.
Is it something with the webpages that this happens? I am sure that all the times that this happened, i was browsing something.

oops, it seems there is an ad in the site that does that. i guess that happened previously too.

Audio not recording properly doing voice-overs CS5

I'm in Premiere Pro CS5, the Audio Mixer window.
I'm using an external Go Mic to record a voice-over audio track. It is hit or miss... one time it records audio properly ... then I clear that track and record again and the audio is blank. I notice in these instances that in the Project window the "speaker icon" isn't next to the audio track... instead there is a square white icon with "recycle arrows" instead.
Anyone encounter this? Suggestions?
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Hello,
I’m trying to have the artist hear the beat and
sing over it without hearing their own vocals while
recording.
Try muting the track that you are recording onto I think.
B. I also would like to setup headphone capabilities
for my artist and myself while doing live recording.
Does your sound card have a headphone output? If it does connect a female single to double jac adapter so you can attach 2 pairs of headphones.

Can Siri's gender be changed for voice over in I books?

I was able to change the gender in settings which is reflected in asking questions of Siri but the Ibooks voice over is still female. Can this be changed or is it not possible. Thanks

You can go to General, International , Voice Control. If you select English UK , it's make, Australia is female.

Voice over dvd movie

I played a movie on my laptop yesterday and it worked fine. Today i put in a brand new movie, and when the movie is playing, there's a female voice telling everything thats happenin in the movie. I went to my Narrator app and turned it on and back off, but there's still a voice over my dvd. I searched online and there was no question that was like my question. PLEASE help, its driving me insane.
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I went to play the movie on my laptop, and i went in the setup on the title screen of the movie, and i went to subtitles, and i clicked on English of the hearing impaired, and thn I went back out, then i went back in a nd turned that off. Well when i went to play the movie, my laptop froze, and i had to restart it. When the movie came back up, i played it from the beginning, and the voice over was gone! I was so relieved!!! I guess i ony needed to restart my laptop. Thank you so much for your help through this.

Any better voices for Voice Over?

Does anyone know if there are any other voices for the Voice Over utility? Does Apple offer any? How about free ones?

It's an interesting question, Your Majesty!
Apple offers no other voices at the moment, though there are some queued up for Leopard when it comes out in the spring.
I haven't found any free voices either, though there are some Unix ones that would need to be compiled and installed—not a process for the faint-hearted.
Voices from Cepstral are available in a number of languages, and are comparable in quality to the Apple voices. They cost $29.99 apiece, and integrate quite well with VoiceOver, although there are occasional stability problems.
Other voices are available from Acapela as part of their Infovox iVox package. They work best when integrated with the VisioVoice package from AssistiveWare. This costs $249, but there is a special deal at $185 until 31st December 2006. The voices alone are available through AssistiveWare at $199 for US English, with again a special offer price until 31st December of $149. This gives you 5 high-quality (HQ) voices, which are a great deal better than any of the Apple or Cepstral offerings, and 2 high-definition (HD) voices, that sound less lifelike but can cope with special characters, and distinguish between upper- and lower-case letters.
In particular, the British English voices (slightly more expensive, but can be added separately) are superb quality—the best text-to-speech on any platform anywhere. I can also confirm the quality of the French voices, but am not qualified to judge the others!
HTH
Archie
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Use of inline external mike for voice overs

Hand held microphones have insufficient volume for voice overs. Was told to buy the iMic. It does not help. Would a condenser mike, or a mixer give me amplification? The built in mike does not pick up female voices, etc.

The iMic should work OK ..it's essentially a USB input amplifier to let you plug in other audio input devices, such as any variety of mics.
Another mic on its own would not normally have sufficient power to give reasonable audio into your Mac, and a mixer would not be as efficient as an iMic (..or other USB input device). A condenser would generally be way too underpowered without an 'iMic' to boost it.
The early iVoice - similar to an iMic - didn't properly separate its own mic's audio from any other audio coming in through its little 3.5mm input socket, so I opened up mine and snipped the wire which connects them, so that it would use only its external mic socket ..and then plugged other mics into that. The more recent iVoice II works OK.
When you've attached one of these USB audio input devices, check your System Preferences>Sound, click on the 'Input' tab, and make sure that the USB device is selected and is working properly.

Unable to capture audio from BlackMagic HD Extreme via Voice Over tool

Hi !
I'm trying to capture audio via my BlackMagic HD Extrem card using the Voice Over tool in FCP6, but I can't, no audio is incoming.
I can ingest audio with video using log and capture, then I know my card and my cables are working.
I tried to set the BM card as audio input in my Audio's System Prefereces Pane, but it isn't working either.
I've been looking on the BM website, but I found nothing.
Can you help me ?
Thx

Thanks for the reply.
Looking at system preferences I found that audio input was set microphone. Don't know how it happened. I switched it to DeckLink and now FCP displays 16 input channels in Log and Capture dialog. I didn't try to capture yet but I think it solved the problem, because before I had only two channels displyed.

I created a slide show in imovie for my daughters 21st with voice overs from friends and family which was all working fine but now the voice recordings are not playing at all. Obviously some setting has changed but I can't find which one.

I created a slide show in imovie for my daughters 21st with voice overs from friends and family which was all working fine but now the voice recordings are not playing at all. Obviously some setting has changed but I can't find which one.

I created a slide show in imovie for my daughters 21st with voice overs from friends and family which was all working fine but now the voice recordings are not playing at all. Obviously some setting has changed but I can't find which one.

Problem with Decklink card during voice over

Hi,
i have PMG5 2.5 GHz with FCS & Blackmagic Decklink extreme card.
all these days i had a great time working on FCP . till i faced a peculiar problem
when i am capturing video from Beta or DV 50 , i am able to select video Only or Audio only , or Video & Audio .
but when iam trying to capture Audio Only option through the the Mic which is connected to the mixer, i am not able to capture audio.
even i have noticed one more strange thing, i have tried Voice Over tool in FCP 5.04 with Decklinik card and i am not able to grab any audio through the Decklink card.
but i can use built in audio for my voiceover.
has anybody come across this kind of problem,
can somebody help me .

Hi Rajendra,
your questions is marked as solved, but I haven't seen your question answered, so I might be wasting time. Anyway.
I bumped into the same problem not long ago. I'm using a Multibridge, but the problem and solution are the same. Here's the reply I got from Kristian Lam over at Blackmagic:
In order to get vo tool in Final Cut Pro HD to work, these are the
steps to follow:
1) Video Input in Blackmagic DeckLink preferences is set to match the audio input type. For example, if you're recording via the XLR connectors of your card, then then 'Inputs' under 'DeckLink Video Connections' must set to analog. It doesn't matter if it's component or composite analog video.
2) In the View menu of Final Cut Pro HD, set External Video to “Off”. When finished with the Voice Over tool, set External Video to “All Frames” to use the broadcast monitor.
3) You must have a stable video signal going into the card when using the vo tool or Final Cut Pro HD will not see the audio. (or use a Blackburst generator)
4) Use the Displays menu to set the DeckLink desktop to the same format as the video source, eg. NTSC 720 x 486.
Well, then select your Decklink Card in the Voiceover Input selection. Even after I had done all that, I couldn't see any audio coming into FCP. The solution to that was to raise the Trim at the top of the mixer. I got a nice signal into the Mackie and voilà also sound into FCP.
Hope this helps,
Colin

FCP, Decklink Ext. & Voice Over

I´m having trouble using the voice over tool. The problem is that no audio is coming in to the fcp. It plays back video/audio to the audio booth but nothing is coming from the booth. I´m using embeded A/V on Decklink Extreme. Do I have too use analog audio to make this work??? Can FCP not use audio from the decklink when doing voice over??
Hope anyone can help me.
M9592LL/A Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Ok. I contacted Blackmagic-design and It is not possible to use the voiceover tool like i want too. I have to add another audio card for this . and I quote
"The DeckLink cards either record or playback but doesn't do both simultaneously. In order to use the VO Tool in FCP, you have to:
1) View > External Video is set to "Off"
2) There is a valid video signal being sent to the card that matches your timeline.
3) Your DeckLink Video Desktop is set to the same resolution as your timeline.
4) In the VO Tool dialog, input is set to "DeckLink Audio"
Unfortunately, this means that your sound booth will not have video preview." un quote
But you do not need the voice over tool if you can’t send video from the FCP!. That is the whole idea.
If there is anyone out there that is using this like this please tell me how you are doing it
Are the Kona cards better?
Thanks
M9592LL/A Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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