Yes, Samantha is less noticeable. The other sounds on the Watch sound great with no distortion. It almost sounds like the other voices are at the lower quality but I have nothing to say this is true. They just don’t sound good on my particular Watch and Samantha sounds OK.
I agree that they did a nice job with the small audio on the Watch. Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com > On Jun 15, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi Jenine and Graham, > > Just by way of a counterpoint, I barely notice the distortion. I'm using > Samantha, so it may just be that it's less pronounced, but honestly, if > Jenine hadn't written her message, I wouldn't have even thought about it. > I'm betting that the distortion has more to do with the tiny speaker than > with a problem with the voice. I actually think Apple's done a good job of > pumping the sound out, and some distortion, IMO is inevitable under the > circumstances. The other thing I'd mention is that you're listening to the > voice for much shorter bits of language than you would on a Mac or an iPhone, > so something that might really grate on your nerves if you're say reading a > book, is less offensive if you are just checking the time or something like > that, at least for me. > > Just my $.02. > Cheers, > Donna >> On Jun 15, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Jenine Stanley <dragonwalke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Graham, Donna is corrrect. The one thing to keep in mind that I’ve found is >> that all of the voices tend to distort at the highest volume, even >> Samantha. The Karen and especially Daniel voices distort at around 75% >> volume versus the 95% at which Samantha starts to distort. >> >> The voices need work. Don’t blame you for hating the Daniel voice. Give me >> Oliver from the Mac. >> Jenine Stanley >> dragonwalke...@gmail.com >> >> >> >>> On Jun 15, 2015, at 4:03 PM, 'Graham' via MacVisionaries >>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Does anyone know if it is possible to change the voice on the apple watch? >>> In the uk we get that horrible daniel voice which i dispise. If it could be >>> changed to the karen voice i'd likely invest. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> >>> Graham >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
