App Profile: CerePlay

Blacklight11

Rating: 4/5

This app has a great deal of potential. I give it four stars in its current iteration. The loss of the final star comes from issues. I have been having attempting to use these voices with voiceover. My phone is extremely laggy when attempting to use these voices for this purpose. I am running this app on an iPhone 12 Pro Max. The other issue I note is that some voices do not appear to install properly. I have noted it with the Welsh, English, Rodri voice and the UK, English William voice. Even with the voices installed and selected my phone reads using the default Daniel British English voice. Please check the integrity of all installations and make sure the install properly. Well, these voices do not work well with voiceover I am pleased to note they work well with the Voice Dream app. However, selecting the show switch in the app does not appear to place them in the voices list of the app as expected. I am not sure if this is due to the way, Voice Dream reader works or if it may be something having to do with the CerePlay app. if it is possible to switch between the two different types of voices, seer wave to standard, and back again, the method of achieving this goal is exceedingly unclear. May I suggest placing instructions in the app description, as well as making it evident within the app settings? Thank you. Keep up the good work!

Levi 2015 blanket

Rating: 4/5

This app seems really cool, and the voices are quite natural. I am noticing a few problems with using these voices with Voiceover. They take a while to respond after navigating through the system. On mac, there is a bug with the sampling rate. This could be a voiceover thing but don't know. The 16kHZ version was high pitched even though the pitch was at the default, and the standard 48kHZ was lower pitched, while the 24kHZ was slightly lower, which suggests that voiceover uses a sample rate of 22.05kHZ for its 3rd party voices. The Siri voices work fine with voiceover, and they have a higher sample rate. This seems like Voiceover doesn't recognize the sample rate of the voice. The voices pitch is fine on iPhone. The voices are very sluggish in general. If these issues could be fixed, I don't see why I wouldn't purchase a few voices for my devices.