Siri sounds the same. What am I missing?

[KadMac]

Just updated to High Sierra on my White MacBook 2010. I know Siri was supposed to come with a better, more natural, voice like iOS 11 has. So far, every time I use Siri with High Sierra, she sounds the same old way she did before.

What am I missing?

 

[maverick808]

After installing High Sierra it still has to download the high quality voice for whatever country you are in. It will probably happen overnight so you should try again tomorrow.

 

[NewtonPippin]

Same here. Makes sense it might have to download the high quality voice, but no indication of progress in the preferences. Wtf apple?

 

[maverick808]

Well if you really want you can look in the /System/Library/Speech/Voices directory to see if your high quality voice has downloaded yet. The Siri ones are named in the format [Name]Siri.SpeechVoice. For example, I believe the US female one is NoraSiri.SpeechVoice and the UK female one is MarthaSiri.SpeechVoice.