How to change the gender of Siri voice on Mac

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From macOS Sierra, the virtual assistant of the Cupertino, Siri, is available in the toolbar of all compatible Macs. If you usually use it, it will surely make using your Mac much simpler and more productive, and if you are one of those who do not use it as much, surely if you have tried it on any occasion it has made you laugh with its witty responses.

Whether you use it or not, maybe you should know that Siri's voice can be changed to a male or female, depending on your preferences, in order to make you feel as comfortable as possible, as in iOS, and that is why here we are going to try to show how to change the gender of the Siri voice in a simple way in macOS .

Change the gender of Siri's voice on your Mac like this

As we mentioned, with the latest versions of macOS, in a multitude of languages, among which, fortunately, is Spanish, you can choose the gender of the person speaking. In languages ​​like ours, you can only choose between a male and a female voice, although with some languages ​​there is more variety to choose from within each gender.

Anyway, if you want to change the voice of Siri on your Mac, you just have to go to System preferences, choose the option called Crab and, once inside the options, what you should do is use the dropdown called "Siri Voice" to select the voice you want.

Choose the gender of Siri voice on Mac

Once you have done this, your Mac will start downloading the voice you have chosen in the background in high quality, in order to give you the best possible answers. That is why, in some cases, it may be that if you try it at the moment it will not respond with the voice you have configured, but it is likely that it will do so with the classic voice, but do not worry since it is normal and it will be solved as soon as the download in question is finished.


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