{"slug": "you-can-now-customize-siris-pace-and-expressivity-in-the-latest-ios-27-beta", "title": "You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta", "summary": "Apple's latest iOS 27 beta 3 enables Siri voice customization with adjustable pace and expressivity sliders, part of a broader generative AI overhaul to make the assistant more natural. Users can choose from various accents and fine-tune speech speed and emotional tone, though ChatGPT offers more extensive options like warmth and enthusiasm controls.", "body_md": "With the latest iOS 27 developer beta, Apple is giving testers an early look at one of the upcoming improvements to [its AI-powered Siri](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/apples-long-awaited-ai-siri-overhaul-is-finally-here/): the ability to adjust how quickly and expressively the AI assistant speaks. In iOS 27 beta 3, out today, Apple has enabled the voice controls for “Pace” and “Expressivity” that were previously labeled as “Coming soon” in the first developer beta releases.\n\nThe update is part of Apple’s broader effort to make Siri feel more natural and personal, as it rebuilds the assistant around generative AI. Like ChatGPT and others offering voice AI assistants, letting users customize how the AI sounds is an important aspect in helping connect people with the new technology.\n\nHowever, ChatGPT’s voice-customization options allow users to go even further, as the ability to adjust the AI’s warmth and enthusiasm was [rolled out in December 2025](https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/20/openai-allows-users-to-directly-adjust-chatgpts-warmth-and-enthusiasm/), alongside options to configure the base style and tone. The latter lets users adjust OpenAI’s assistant to be more friendly, professional, candid, or quirky, among other styles. This is reflected not only in how ChatGPT speaks, but also in how it presents information to the user.\n\nFirst introduced at [Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/wwdc-2026-everything-announced-on-siri-ai-os-27-apple-intelligence-and-more/) (WWDC 26) in June, Siri’s voice controls let users personalize their Siri experience beyond just choosing a male- or female-sounding assistant. Now beta testers will be able to switch between a range of voices with different accents, and then use sliders to change how slowly or quickly Siri speaks and how much human-like emotion its voice conveys.\n\nAs you make the adjustments, Siri will practice saying some common things, like “You have one new message,” so you can get a sense of how the different voices sound.\n\nThe AI version of Siri is deeply integrated across the updated version of iOS, where it will allow iPhone owners to start conversations by speaking, swiping down from the Dynamic Island at the top of the screen and typing, tapping on the phone’s side button, or even by using the brand-new stand-alone Siri app.\n\nOther, more minor updates are also rolling out with iOS 27 beta 3, including an [updated](https://x.com/modnareman0/status/2074193951871914423) Reminders app icon. (We should note some people on X are also reporting losing access to the new Siri after updating, or seeing their phone again begin indexing their data — typically, the first step in optimizing Siri AI for search.)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-now-customize-siris-pace-and-expressivity-in-the-latest-ios-27-beta", "canonical_source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/you-can-now-customize-siris-pace-and-expressivity-in-the-latest-ios-27-beta/", "published_at": "2026-07-06 19:01:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 01:45:49.973705+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "large-language-models", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Apple", "Siri", "iOS 27", "ChatGPT", "OpenAI", "WWDC 26"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-now-customize-siris-pace-and-expressivity-in-the-latest-ios-27-beta", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-now-customize-siris-pace-and-expressivity-in-the-latest-ios-27-beta.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-now-customize-siris-pace-and-expressivity-in-the-latest-ios-27-beta.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-now-customize-siris-pace-and-expressivity-in-the-latest-ios-27-beta.jsonld"}}