Speech Synthesis: I’ve Downloaded My Preferred Voiceover and Purchased Voice Dream VOICES into My New iPhone 12 mini!

My NEW Apple iPhone 12 mini is now 3 days old, yet was released in the Philippines 1.15 years ago. It was freshly-updated to iOS 15.3.1 1 days ago. It originally had iOS 14.1, yet I had it updated to iOS 15.3 3 days ago, prior to restoring from iCloud 2 days ago. My iPhone 12 mini replaces my iPhone 6S Plus. ☺️

Hello World! As a totally BLIND iOS End User of my new Apple iPhone 12 mini smartphone, I decided to download my preferred Voiceover screenreader voices and the voices I’ve previously purchased within the Voice Dream Reader iOS app, previously using my old iPhone 6S Plus. I figured today is a good day, as I did mostly administrative duties yesterday.

After realizing my iPhone 12 mini has plenty of space, compared to my old iPhone 6S Plus, I decided to download ALL US & UK voices, mostly because, here in The Philippines, the internet frequently & randomly vanishes without any prior warning. These Voiceover screenreader voices are the voices I hear when manipulating my iPhone. I’ve realized many Voiceover voices have improved performance, compared to my old iPhone 6S Plus. Whereas all Voiceover voices now sound GREAT in my BOSE QuietComfort 35 II headphones, the sound quality is not always as great with the iPhone 12 mini’s on-board speakers. Having the Voiceover voices pre-downloaded allows me to quickly change voices without waiting for downloading to complete. ☺️

Next, I opened my purchased Voice Dream Reader iOS app, and downloaded all the voices I had previously purchased using my old iPhone 6S Plus, mostly because my new iPhone 12 mini has plenty of memory to contain all of my voice purchases. This allows me to make any eBook, document or web page into an audiobook with the voice I choose, unlike a prerecorded file with a voice I cannot change. The pause button of my BOSE QuietComfort 35 II accurately toggles the play/pause function of Voice Dream Reader, allowing me to hear my eBooks the same way I listen to music.

And then, I have a better sounding device! ☺️

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Happily-Married, comfortably poor, permanently disabled and totally BLIND. A Terrorism SURVIVOR that's still SURVIVING Terrorism + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Scientist since 1977, Acoustician since 1979, Computer Scientist/Programmer since 1982, Seismologist since 1988, Criminologist (Behavioral Scientist) since 1992, and many more! Also, had worked in two civilian and one military virology labs in the USA between 1993 and 2003. A Generation X, Filipino-American US expat, living in The Philippines, whom was naturally-born in Boston, grew up mostly in Seattle, some in Chicago, and have lived in Anchorage & San Francisco. Became permanently-disabled in 2003 due to health-related illness, ending my moonlighting career as an independent private investigator in the USA. RETIRED independent developer of computing & electronics technologies after 35 wonderful years, including 20 wonderful years in GNU/Linux development & 8 wonderful years as an independent embedded systems developer of digital electronics. Former speech synthesis systems developer of 30 wonderful years, specializing in foreign language phoneme-to-speech synthesis. Also was a beta tester of third-party software-based speech synthesizers. Former FCC-licensed amateur radio operator of 20 wonderful years, beginning with 2m packet-radio & AmSat communications between Anchorage & Manila. Former member of Anchorage Amateur Radio Club and Mike & Key ARC in Seattle. Learned 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing on a manual typewriter in 1980 at a US-based elementary school. Mastered 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing without looking at the keyboard in 1986. Now have osteoarthritis in both of my hands from all that touch-typing! My primary computer programming language is C, which I learned in 1990. My secondary programming language is B.A.S.I.C., which I self-learned in 1982. Prior to my sight-loss, I used to program in LISP/CLISP and Prolog for my early development of artificial intelligence & machine learning programs. Daily, to compensate/facilitate my sight-loss, I am actively using Apple iOS VoiceOver, Google Android TalkBack and Amazon Fire OS VoiceView screen-readers, in addition to my external Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and sometimes, my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard, as HOBBIES.

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