My App updated Friday morning.. With this update the audio feature on my Iphone is now absolutly horrible because the voice on the audio has a extremely heavy Asian accent in English which makes it extremely hard to understand what its saying from time to time....

As a truck Driver in the US, I use the audio feature which enables me to listen to the novels i enjoy to pass the time day by day in entertainment while I am driving and doing my job.

I have talked to my friend JKSManga on discord and showed him what is sounded like on my end and he said it sounded nothing like what i was hearing on his Android... since I don't have an Android, I can't really determine if its just my app on IOS or something else... can I please get help in the situation because as of yesterday I have no longer been able to read/listen to my novels I been loving!

UPDATE:

I have checked the following things.... I installed WN on my iPad.. and the audio works fine.. its NOT great at all (never was but its been manageable even with the update a few months ago and now the audio has gotten slightly worse a few months ago with it now reading a few words and then pausing and then continuing )..

With this.. I clear my Cache... No Luck

Deleted and reinstalled the app on my IPhone... Logged in, redownloaded the audio packet... and I still get the heavy Asian Accent.. at this point I am concluding this is a Bug on IPHONES ONLY and Not the iPad I have a IPhone 12 Pro Max and have iOS 16.1 installed.

I have Webnovel 5.15.0 installed

    Same. I have an iPhone SE.

    Thanks for bringing this up. I had it switching from the ok English voices to the Chinese accented ones. Happened a few days ago) I’d tap on the male voice (the one I usually use to listen to) or switch to the female voice and it would change back to a more comprehensible accent. It was annoying but manageable.

    But today it seems like it’s refusing to go back to the English accents. If this goes on I won’t be spending much time on Webnovel. I’m also heavily dependent on the voice feature.

    Heirloom Yup.. I already mention that... And this NAILS it exactly the issue at hand.. it seem to start doing this at the same time when the reading got a little more choppy on HOW it reads this ON TOP of the heavy accent.. which more or less switches to when something happens on my internet connection.. Or it would do that at the beginning of each chapter in which I just reset the chapter

    Issue happening on my device since Mid October. Previously on the 5.14.0 version of WebNovel the audio issue was intermittent, and I could try killing the app or clearing cache to get it to work normally for a bit sometimes. But now after the 5.15.0 version update, it is happening 100% of the time and makes listening to audio unbearable.

    This needs to be resolved ASAP. I have already attempted to clear cache, sign out/in, and remove and reinstall the app. None of that fixed the issue.

    Current Phone/App Setup:

    • Webnovel App Version: 5.14.0(692)
    • Mobile phone model: iPhone 14 Pro Max
    • Operating System version: iOS 16.0.2 (20A380)

    I have the same annoying Asian German whatever accent. It has heavily impacted my usage because I drive a lot during work

    6 days later

    I have a problem were it suddenly reads something that isn’t written in the Webnovel, happens quite frequently with a lot of different books, it’s always the same thing being said: “extra station silicol auto explorary quinsetius inolics circulation sedation contamination senenarac friqment” super annoying. Anyone else got this happening to them?

      FlyingHippopotamus

      Yes.. most the time to fix this for me is to reset the audio on the book and it only happens to me when the heavy accent comes into play…

        Update:

        I updated to IOS 16.1.1 and still not fixed

          This is something that Webnovel has to fix because I understand that it goes to the Asian audio when there is internet interference ( which is better than the robotic ones) but the Asian version it is now on there 24/7 ……. I reached out to Webnovel and they like going to give feedback …. It’s so upsetting because I can understand some of what the Asian version is saying but then it starts saying crazy stuff

            Oh and it happens on my iPad IOS 15.6.1 and my iPhone 11 IOS 16.1.1 …. So it can’t be the software version either

              Jonna9799 just the fact that they have not said anything yet and the fact that it still works fine on Android but is terrible on IPhones is what got me concern and the fact that we are close to 2-3 weeks now with no app update tells me that they have this as a low low priority and not urgent to fix which upsets me greatly because my reading time has practically been halted

                Absolute_Qlipoth you be surprised…. Look at the other posts on this forums.. also look at the reviews on the IPhone App Store… many are upset

                  I am having the same problem but also audio start talking all the words are jumbled together and it is very annoying. I have tried re downloading the app but it didn’t change anything.

                    Sevokevo low low priority because not many are effected just iPhone users using the audio function.

                      ann_reynolds nothing works I’ve done it all can only hope this issue gets fixed by Webnovel themselves.

                        FlyingHippopotamus dude it’s crazy I thought I was the only one. It inserts these words and for the longest I’d freak out and have to look at the text to see of I missed anything

                          Oneshotsg0ne I just hope the more we speak out on this.. the more they look to see the severity of the issue… I want to get this fixed ASAP because I am getting so far behind on MVS, and still have a lot of work to do to catch up to Death and Me… I am missing these so badly

                            FlyingHippopotamus for me it’s even weirder audio “oreofer going instruction ntun never are you koing okalayla immediately is the bulletin loawski incoming” and there’s more too like wtf I had to make up words to even describe it I also have it audio recorded.

                              Sevokevo fax and I’ve tried the audio feature of the iPhone but it can’t go to the next chapter and stops after reaching the end.

                                I stopped listening for a bit but when I got back, it was the new accent that I can’t understand. I work in a warehouse and whether I’m working or resting, it’s nice to listen to some works that I’m interested in. However, with this horrible accent, I can’t understand half of it, words seem like they are being skipped or only one letter sounded out if anything. I tried the online help and they said it was my phone’s audio dictation and tried to give me instructions to fix it in the accessibility setting page. Nothing worked and half of the suggestions would imply that I’d have to manually start the reader for each sentence or line or even word, which literally destroys the convenience of the audio reader.

                                I’ve put up with some weird stuff over the years Webnovel, but this one takes the cake. It’d be nice to know that someone is at least trying to work on this rather than finding random posts of others having the same problem.

                                Problem… key word.

                                  ChrisMit They saying its not their side... and yet...... All the Iphones and now Ipads are doing this.. and yet Android is working just fine.

                                  Can’t believe this still hasn’t gotten fixed it’s awful can’t even use the best feature. Terrible service

                                    Kyle_Monahan Thanks to Void.. I was able to get in contact with Customer Support.. and they had me create a video of the issue and send it to there Dev team and gave me the email address to them... My Video (which is Private on Youtube) has 2 views on it now.. so there is hope.

                                      5.17.0 has been released… issue has been fixed and now it’s much better as it now using Siri… awesome thanks for the fixed..

                                      However there is a new bug to where I can’t change Siris voice.

                                        Just updated and found it working with Siri. Much relief.

                                          ChrisMit The only bug we have now is the fact that you can't change it from the OLD OLD Samantha voice that makes it alot more robotic then what Siri sounds like now..... no matter how much you change the settings it won't change the voice... even if you switch it to the Samantha (Enhanced) version of the voice... she still sounds the same.

                                            Sevokevo my audio has problems too. It pauses once every three seconds even though there's no punctuation. Really goofy bug, which makes listening impossible.

                                              It honestly frustrating, that they had it working fine a month ago. How do you screw the audio up that much? They should really fix this issue, this shouldn’t even be a problem in the first place.

                                                _MCkekskuchen_ SOO I email them and they replied back to me the issue had been submited.. so hopefully it will be fixed soon

                                                  UrCaterpillar I have not had a issue where it stopped every 3 seconds after the update Tuesday.,.. Make sure your updated on the 5.17.0 version on the App store... Only issue now is you can't change Siris Voice.

                                                    UnknownWriter4Fun Not going to Lie.. the current version where it uses Siri is MUCH MUCH better.. but again only issue now is you can't change the voice... Once that is fixed you can change the voice to Enhanced or Premium version of the voice which should make listening to the novels will be much much better than it use to be.

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