iOS 26 Beta Personal Voice bug affecting AVSpeechSynthesizer

I have sent in a feedback report (FB18222398) but I have no idea if anyone has looked at it. I know from past experiences that Apple devs do look at these forums.

This applies to each of the betas, 1, 2 and 3. I have created a new Personal Voice with each beta. I create a personal voice in English. When it's done processing, I tap Preview and it says in English what is expected. But after some time, an hour or a day, the language of the voice file changes languages and no longer works properly. If I press Preview it is no longer intelligible. I have a text to speech app and initially the created voice works but then when the language of the file changes, it no longer works. I have run an app on my iphone through Xcode that prints to the console the voices installed on the device with the language. Currently this is the voice file:

Voice Identifier: com.apple.speech.personalvoice.AAA9C6F2-9125-475F-BA2F-22C63274991D Language: es-MX

and on a second device the same personal voice is in a different language:

Voice Identifier: com.apple.speech.personalvoice.AAA9C6F2-9125-475F-BA2F-22C63274991D Language: zh-CN

Although, a previous personal voice file that listed as Spanish-Mexican played in English with a Spanish accent or when playing Spanish text, it sounded almost perfect. This current personal voice doesn't do that, and is unintelligible. Previous attempts have converted to Chinese.

I hope someone can look into this.

with beta 4 out, i deleted the personal voice created with beta 3, restarted my iphone and updated to ios 26 beta 4. created a new personal voice in english. when i press preview in the settings app it doesn't say anything. in my text to speech app it doesn't use the personal voice created. it uses an asian sounding voice for english. i ran the voices app i created in xcode and got the following results for the personal voice created: Voice Identifier: com.apple.speech.personalvoice.B3D041B5-D3F1-49F5-8466-0284FE9AC342 Language: zh-CN

issue persists. i'm updating feedback submission.

iOS 26 Beta Personal Voice bug affecting AVSpeechSynthesizer
 
 
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