HadrienGardeur/web-speech-recommended-voices

Document new Siri voices

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HadrienGardeur commented

While testing the code implementation of this repo, I've noticed that Chrome Desktop seems to embed a number of new voices that are lower quality than what they had before but with offline support.

Here's the list so far:

  • French
    • Marie (France)
  • English
    • Aaron (US)
    • Catherine (Australia)
    • Gordon (Australia)
    • Arthur (UK)
    • Martha (UK)
  • German
    • Helena (Germany)
    • Martin (Germany)
HadrienGardeur commented

On macOS I've also tested for the presence of these voices in the following browsers:

  • Edge
  • Firefox
  • and Safari

Surprisingly, they're also available in Edge.

After some addition search, all of these names seem to be related to Siri. Could it be possible that with the latest beta release of macOS, more compact versions of Siri voices are becoming available through Chromium?

HadrienGardeur commented

I've found out that Nicky is also a Siri voice, but unlike these other voices I can see Nicky listed in macOS settings and install a higher quality variant.

I've listed all known preloaded Siri voices aside from Daniel (French) which I cannot find through the Web Speech API.

I hope that this foreshadows the addition of all Siri voices in the future, including the high quality ones 🤞🏻