Accessibility > Spoken Content > Speak Screen with Speech Controller suddenly pronouncing everything wrong
Is anyone else suddenly having issues with pronunciation in Spoken Content in iOS 16.6?
I use Accessibility > Spoken Content > Speak Screen (with Speech Controller on) every day to read a number of things on my iphone 14pro - like ebooks via the Kindle app and web articles or newsletters in Chrome browser. Last week my iPhone began completely mispronouncing words ALL THE TIME, like, with astounding frequency.
A word in almost every sentence is now wrong, common words like “the” or “my” and many others. Usually it’s not too bad, with maybe one word every 2-5 pages might be mispronounced, usually names or less common words.
More examples: pronouncing “my” as “me” or “my” randomly, sometimes if a word is at the end of a line it totally forgets to say anything after the first letter so “me” is just a grunted “m”. It’s pronouncing “the” as “thee” or “the” in the wrong context, saying “he’s alive” like “hess-aliv” or “medicine” as “medeeceen” or “know” as “k-nau” or “you” as “y-ow”. It’s like they’ve completely broken it.
Nothing is fixing it. I’ve tried:
- turning spoken content and the speech controller off in settings > closing all apps > then turning them back on again (this sometimes fixes it when it gets buggy and won’t play or stops speaking randomly)
- changing voices / re-downloaded the voice - I use Jamie Premium UK voice which I find best and have used for ages, but I tried Australian ones too and they are the same
- tried a force restart
- I even completely wiped my phone settings
- I did a bug report last week too
I changed nothing to cause it, in fact it was reading an ebook, I paused it and came back to it 30 mins later and it was suddenly horrible.
*I’m using an iphone 14 pro on iOS 16.6 in Australia with all my apps up to date.
iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 16
