Siri Gets New Voice Options in visionOS 27 Beta 5

Siri has a new app icon

The new icon uses the same silver orb you see when Siri is open, placed inside a white circle in Home View.

The Siri orb looks more alive

Siri looks more responsive when active, with a brighter center and soft blue, pink, and green color moving inside the orb.

When Siri is inactive and pinned to a desk, the orb has a clearer, less frosted glass look. A small amount of color still floats inside.

New voice options on M5 Vision Pro

The new voice controls work in two ways. Pace changes how fast Siri speaks. Expressivity changes how much feeling comes through.

The American voice picker includes seven voices, while the British picker has four. Every voice gets a pace slider and an expressivity slider, letting you make Siri sound slower, faster, calmer, or more animated.

Apple showed these controls on its visionOS 27 preview page and limits them to the M5 Vision Pro.

The software is still in testing. Apple says the finished visionOS 27 update is coming this fall, while Siri AI is coming in English later this year.

My pick

I landed on American voice 6 with both pace and expressivity toward the higher end. Siri sounds quicker, more animated, and honestly awesome without becoming hard to follow.