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How to train your Mac to talk in your voice

With macOS Sonoma, you can create a Personal Voice, which is a voice that your Mac uses that sounds like you. The Mac’s text-to-speech capabilities can be used to recite in a voice similar to yours anything typed using the Live Speech feature.

According to Apple, the voice that is created uses the Mac’s machine learning, and since everything is kept on the Mac, the user’s voice information is kept private and secure. So you don’t have to worry about your recording being used for nefarious reasons by Apple or anyone else.

The Personal Voice isn’t perfect. It sounds robotic, lacking inflection and emotion, but it’s more personal than the artificial voices that come with the Mac. To hear what it sounds like, I created samples. The first recording is me speaking (), and the second is My Personal

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