In Apple’s iOS 17 beta, two new “British” Siri voices have been discovered that can be selected from the Settings app by going to Siri & Search and then selecting Siri Voice. The new voices are the third and fourth options, joining the two original “British” voices for Siri.
The two new “British” voices, which sound more natural than the existing two, are the only voices that have been added to iOS 17 so far. It’s not clear if they were added in the third beta or if they were included in earlier betas, but they were discovered before the most recent updated third beta by MacRumors member of the MegaBlue forum.
In iOS 17, other updates to Siri include an option to remove “Hey” from the “Hey Siri” invocation, the ability to have Siri read web articles aloud to you, and the ability to interrupt Siri and make back-to-back requests without waking.
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