When iOS 15.4 lands in your iPhone in a couple of weeks, there will likely be a load of latest options to sift by: Face ID with a Masks, Faucet to Pay, new emoji, and Common Management on the iPad. However there will likely be one smaller change that’s simply as significant: a brand new Siri voice.

Launched as a part of the fourth iOS 15.4 beta, the brand new voice is just labeled America (Voice 5). However while you take heed to it, you’ll discover that it’s considerably androgenous and tough to pin down as explicitly male or feminine. As a part of its continued push for variety, Apple advised Axios that it employed “a member of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood” to file the brand new Siri voice. Right here’s how the brand new voice sounds:

It’s not clear whether or not the brand new American voice will come to the opposite language varieties as nicely. Apple affords 5 American voices and simply two on than another language

“We’re excited to introduce a brand new Siri voice for English audio system, giving customers extra choices to decide on a voice that speaks to them,” Apple mentioned in a press release. “Hundreds of thousands of individuals world wide depend on Siri day by day to assist get issues finished, so we work to make the expertise really feel as personalised as potential.”

Apple final 12 months eliminated the default feminine voice in iOS 14.5 and added three new voices, together with two choices recorded by black actors. On the time, Apple mentioned the voice choices had been “a continuation of Apple’s long-standing dedication to variety and inclusion, and services which might be designed to raised mirror the variety of the world we dwell in.”

To vary the voice you hear when Siri responds to a question, head over to the Settings app, then Siri & Search>Siri Voice and choose the one you need.