Change Siri Voice for HomePod in the Home app. The Siri voice chosen on your iPhone syncs automatically to your Apple Watch, if paired. According to the default settings, Siri's has a female voice in the US and a male voice in the UK. Siri voice options are visible when you download the additional voices on your iPhone or iPad.
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Whether you are from the UK or anywhere in the world, you can choose to use the British male and female voices in the Siri settings. How to Choose Between a Male and Female Siri Voice for HomePod. It won’t make Siri smarter, but it does make it sound nicer. The male voice received similar enhancements. It’s hard to put into words exactly what changed, but the new British female voice sounds sharper with a clearer accent and better intonation of syllables. (Australian readers are also writing in to say that they have noticed changes to Siri’s Australian accent in recent weeks, so it’s possible Apple is revamping all of the international voices). It is likely that Apple is using new machine-learning driven techniques, behind the scenes, to improve the sound synthesis. The new British voices certainly sound like the same ‘person’, just a higher-quality less-robotic version. Unlike when Apple upgraded the US female voice in iOS 11, the raw human voice talent does not seem to have changed. The change can be heard on iPhone and iPad as well as the HomePod. Last month, some readers commented that the British male voice had been upgraded and we can confirm that the British female voice has also been updated as of this week. Seemingly through a server-side change, Apple is quietly updating some of the international Siri text-to-speech synthesizers.