Voice in text to speech

[Ozhatch]

My new Samsung Galaxy S4 has a 'mechanical' voice when reading text-to-speech. I would like to change that to match the voice that my old S2 had, which was female, with an English accent.

I downloaded the "Speech Synthesis Data Installer" and set text-to-speech options accordingly. Then I played an example, which sounds perfect. However, when I use speech guidance with, say, Maps, or in the briefing with my alarm, the voice reverts to the 'mechanical' female.

Can someone please suggest a fix?

 

[johnny_w]

Reading comprehension>Me
Sorry

 

[Ozhatch]

Reading comprehension>Me
Sorry

I'm not sure I understand what you are telling me. Please elucidate.

Thanks.

 

[johnny_w]

I posted an answer that you already covered in your post. Sorry, it's shorthand from another discussion forum I frequent. It means reading comprehension is greater than me or I failed at reading comprehension.
I did some poking around in hopes of being able to edit that with useful information and failed miserably. I even tried some suggestions I found and nothing worked.
Sorry

 

[Ozhatch]

I had an email reply:

"Dear Ozhatch,

johnny_w has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - General Voice in text to speech - in the Samsung Galaxy S4 forum of Android Forums.

This thread is located at:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s4/875695-voice-in-text-speech-new-post.html

Here is the message that has just been posted:
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Have you tried going to settings> My Device> Accessibility>Text-to-speech options and see what's selected? I use Google text-to-speech engine but perhaps the one you downloaded/installed will be listed."
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Done all that, and downloaded the Samsung TTS update. Still no change, except that the 'mechanical' voice is somewhat lower than the earlier version.

 

[johnny_w]

Yup, that's where I asked you to do something you had already tried. I'm not sure how I missed it, but I did. On the plus side I now have a snazzy British voice on my phone. I'm not sure when I'll ever hear it, but it's there. I also learned I can change the voice on Waze.
Sorry for wasting your time.

 

[electricpete]

maybe try to disable svoice. It may be interfering.