MacOS – Use Siri’s voice as the system voice

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I notice that on Sierra, Siri's voice is much superior to the selection of system voices you can select in System Preferences β†’ Accessibility β†’ Speech. In fact, I suspect they use a different system entirely as the command say -v ? doesn't seem to list any voices which are used with Siri.

I have a key command set up to speak the select text. Is there no way I can get it to use Siri's voice to do it?

Edit: To be specific, I'm after the Siri voice: 'British (Male)'

Best Answer

I believe Daniel is the British Siri from the -v list