As of latest update to Ventura, only the Eloquence system voice options are showing in Clozemaster settings and not other Apple options like Siri / Juan (MX Enhanced) / Jorge (ES Enhanced) which are much higher quality and more realistic.
I do not have the same problem on IOS for iPad / iPhone both of which are showing all options.
Actions taken on MacOS:
- Downloaded multiple voices in accessibility.
- Set Jorge (ES) as default for Spanish.
- Restarted Mac & Safari.
- Went to settings in multiple choice game. → Voices not available.
Only options are Eloquence based options. & Closemaster voice (which seems to take about 2x time to start)
The problem has recently gotten stranger in MacOS 13.0.1. While using Spanish review with settings set to a specific system voice, I will get many sentences in a set using a very different voice with a very different sped setting (about 2x - vs. the setting of 1x that the voice setting is at).
So far I haven’t found a pattern in this and the change recently happened even though there were no recent setting changes.
This is appearing in MacOS / Safari 16.1 using the web interface.
Just chiming in to say this is also a problem for me. In After downloading enhanced voices in Accessibility and restarting Safari, I still only see the (completely unusable) default voices. This problem is exacerbated in custom collections since Cloze voice is also not an option, so you’re left with only the default eloquence voices.
Apple does not make the Siri voices available (see here).
I found a workaround for this problem. I downloaded the Clozemaster iPhone app via Mac App Store (here ‎Clozemaster: Expand Vocabulary on the App Store), which does support any enhanced voices you’ve downloaded via Accessibility settings. You’ll probably want to Zoom the window btw, otherwise font size is very small.
The best solution would be to allow “Clozemaster Voice” in custom collections, or support the enhanced voices in the web app, but this works okay for the time being.
edit: also, it’s only an issue with Safari. Tried Chrome and Arc and both show the enhanced voices I downloaded. So it’s just a safari bug not a bug for the web app generally.
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I understand that the workaround Apple wants us to use is to go to Settings/Accessibility/Spoken Content/Voices and then choose the specific voice models, speech rate and pitch we prefer.
I did that with all “Premium” level models (large but free) and have really good quality voices now.