Create a Personal Voice on your iPhone, iPad

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Apple’s Personal Voice enables users to create a synthesised voice that sounds like your own to communicate with family and friends and this Personal Voice can be used within the Twinkl Symbols for AAC app to truly personalise communication for the user. 

 

Personal Voice is designed with privacy and security in mind. Personal Voice is encrypted and stored securely on device, so only you can access it with Face ID, Touch ID or your device passcode or password. When you share your Personal Voice across devices, iCloud will store your Personal Voice using end-to-end encryption. Additionally, the third-party apps you grant to access can’t capture speech from Personal Voice.

System requirements

  • iOS 17, iPadOS 17 or macOS Sonoma or later
  • One of these devices:
    • iPhone 12 or later
    • iPad Air (5th generation)
    • iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) or later
    • iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation) or later
  • Face ID, Touch ID or a device passcode or password

Create a Personal Voice

To create a Personal Voice, read a series of randomly chosen text prompts to record 15 minutes of audio. Your speech will be processed securely on device overnight while your device is charging and connected to Wi-Fi.

 

You can create multiple voices on each device.

  1. Open the Settings app. Tap Accessibility, then tap Personal Voice.
  2. Tap Create a Personal Voice.
  3. Follow the onscreen instructions to record your voice.

To pause your recording session, tap Done or close the Settings app. Your progress will be saved.

To resume a recording session:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Personal Voice.
  2. Tap the Personal Voice you want to continue creating.
  3. Tap Continue Recording, then follow the onscreen instructions.

Delete a Personal Voice

After you’ve deleted a Personal Voice, you won’t be able to recover it.

  1. Open the Settings app. Tap Accessibility, then tap Personal Voice.
  2. Tap the Personal Voice you want to delete.
  3. Authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID, or enter your passcode.
  4. Tap Delete Voice, then tap Delete Voice And Recordings to confirm.

Use your Personal Voice on other devices

You can sync your Personal Voice to other devices that have been signed in to iCloud with your Apple ID.

  1. Open the Settings app. Tap Accessibility, then tap Personal Voice.
  2. Turn on Share Across Devices.