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Podcast voices: an iPhone note on where the other voices live

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Safari hands web pages one voice per language, whatever the iPhone has
installed, so the picker cannot fix that on iOS. It now carries the way out
instead: Accessibility -> Spoken Content -> Voices -> your language, download
an Enhanced/Premium voice and make it preferred. The speaker button wears an
amber dot while the note is waiting, and the voice-less banner appends the
same guidance. Detection covers iPadOS too (maxTouchPoints, since it reports
as a Mac).

The suite fakes an iPhone user agent, a single Daniel voice and pins the dot
and the note's actual steps (37 checks). Version 0.7.5, SW v97.
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Martin Dvořák 2026-10-16 13:51:12 +00:00
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@ -229,3 +229,16 @@ export function onlyRoboticVoices(locale: string, voices?: SpeechSynthesisVoice[
}
export const MALE_VOICE_HINTS = MALE_NAMES;
/**
* iPhone/iPad (all iOS browsers are WebKit): Safari hands web pages a single
* voice per language — the system's preferred one — no matter how many are
* installed, so the picker needs to say where to get a better one.
*/
export function isAppleMobile(): boolean {
if (typeof navigator === "undefined") return false;
const ua = navigator.userAgent;
if (/iPhone|iPod/.test(ua)) return true;
/* iPadOS 13+ reports as a Mac; the touch points give it away. */
return /iPad/.test(ua) || (/Macintosh/.test(ua) && navigator.maxTouchPoints > 1);
}