iOS 11 will bring for users iPhone and iPad a new voice for the personal assistant Siri, the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), announcing this during June. We are talking here about a new female voice for Siri, iOS 11 already having everything ready so that users can enjoy a much more natural interaction with Apple's personal assistant, which is the goal of the Americans.
iOS 11 will have a new voice for Siri chosen from hundreds of candidates tested by the Apple company to change the personality of the personal assistant. The engineers of the Appel company claim that this change in iOS 11 for Siri is intended to improve the naturalness, personality and expressiveness of the personal assistant, so to generate the impression that we are talking to a person, not a program.
iOS 11 – Apple explains Siri's new voice
iOS 11 already has this voice available to beta testers of the operating system, so some Apple fans had the opportunity to experience the change. Those from Apple have recorded no less than 20 hours of conversations with the woman whose voice will "give life" to the Siri personal assistant starting this fall, so everything is ready to be launched by Apple.
iOS 11 will be released in September by the Apple company, and this means that from then on we will be able to experience everything that it brings. The voice should be one that differentiates Siri from the competitors on the Android platform, and with iOS 11, Apple will bring other major changes for iPhone and iPad users, which we have talked about repeatedly.
"For iOS 11, we chose a new female voice talent with the goal of improving the naturalness, personality, and expressiveness of Siri's voice. We evaluated hundreds of candidates before choosing the best one. Then, we recorded over 20 hours of speech and built a new TTS voice using the new deep learning based TTS technology. As a result, the new US English Siri voice sounds better than ever. Table 1 contains a few examples of the Siri deep learning-based voices in iOS 11 and 10 compared to a traditional unit selection voice in iOS 9."
