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Choosing a voice

Pick a voice in Setup → Voice (or in Quick setup, step 3). Two kinds are offered:

  • System voice — the device’s built-in speech. Always available, always offline, zero download.
  • Neural voices — downloadable higher-quality voices that run on the device. Selecting one downloads it with a visible progress bar; after that it works fully offline, like everything else.

Voices are per-person: each person in People keeps their own choice.

The Setup dialog with the Voice section open: System voice selected, with the downloadable offline neural voices listed below it. Desktop, light theme. (The system-voice list varies by machine.)
Setup → Voice: the system voice plus downloadable neural voices.