Change Reading Voice on Your Device
Instructions: Quick steps to change your device’s reading voice on iPhone, Android, Mac, or Windows.
iPhone / iPad
Open Settings
Tap Accessibility
Tap Read & Speak or Spoken Content
Tap Voices
Select your preferred voice
If available, choose Enhanced Quality and let it download over Wi-Fi
Official Apple help:
Hear iPhone speak the screen, selected text, and typing feedback
Adjust voice and speed for VoiceOver and Speak Screen on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Android
Open Settings
Tap Accessibility
Tap Text-to-speech output
Choose your preferred speech engine
Select your language, speech rate, and pitch
If you need more voices, tap Install voice data
Download and select your preferred voice or language
Official Google help:
Text-to-speech output
MacBook / Mac
Open System Settings
Click Accessibility
Click Read & Speak
Under System Voice, select your preferred voice
For more choices, click the Info button next to System Voice
Download the voice you want, then select it once the download is complete
Adjust the voice settings if needed
Official Apple help:
Change the voice your Mac uses to speak text
Change Read & Speak settings for accessibility on Mac
Windows PC
Open Settings
Go to Accessibility
Open Narrator
Under Narrator’s voice or Personalize Narrator’s voice, choose your preferred voice
To get more options, select Add more voices
If available, use Add to install a natural voice
You can also select Add legacy voices to open Speech settings
Download and select your preferred voice after installation finishes
Official Microsoft help:
Chapter 7: Customizing Narrator
Appendix A: Supported languages and voices
Still not hearing the new voice?
Refresh the blog article, or close and reopen it
Restart your browser or reading app
Make sure the new voice has finished downloading
Official help:
Appendix A: Supported languages and voices
Text-to-speech output
