VoiceOver Eloquence Voices Disappeared After macOS Update

By Siddarth B Mahajan, 5 April, 2026

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Hello everyone,

I’m facing a strange issue on my MacBook Air (M1) after updating to the latest macOS version.

I’m no longer able to find the ETI Eloquence voices in VoiceOver. They don’t appear under the Speech settings in VoiceOver Utility at all. I’ve already tried restarting my Mac and checking the speech settings multiple times, but the voices are simply not there.

This is quite frustrating, as I rely heavily on Eloquence voices and I’m not comfortable using the other available voices.

Has anyone else experienced this after the recent update? Is this a known bug, or is there something I might be missing?

Any help or guidance would be really appreciated.

Thank you.

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By Singer Girl on Sunday, April 5, 2026 - 13:53

Did you try resetting the voiceover settings? Sometimes it clears up some weird issues. That is pretty strange though. Hopefully you can get those voices back. Or even maybe just a simple toggling a voiceover sometimes bring back things. Hope this helps.

By Cankut Değerli on Sunday, April 5, 2026 - 17:47

I have no problem on my end, maybe that's a glitch?

By JamesPotter on Monday, April 13, 2026 - 17:46

Hi. well, basically what the tittle says. I've updated yesterday and I'm currently facing the same issue, mac book m1 pro here.

By Siddarth B Mahajan on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 02:51

Yes. I did everything, including resetting the voiceover completely. no help.

By mr grieves on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 08:07

I don't use Eloquence much except I have an activity to witch to it and I noticed it was no longer chaning voice. And now I look in the voices list and eloquence isn't there at all either.

I don't really see how this can be a VO Settings issue because the voices are just missing altogether and can't be added.

I've also noticed a similar thing with some Siri voices - they get seemingly corrupted after a reboot (most of the time) except in that case they stay in the list even though they aren't usable unless you delete them.

Not sure if it's a regional thing maybe? I'm in the UK if it makes a difference.

By Zach M on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 21:30

Hello.
I had the same issue. the only way to fix it, and I do not recommend any of you doing this, but mac OS 26.5 beta fixes it, at least on my end. I too have an m1 macbook air. Perhaps that's an m1 macbook air specific issue? I'm not sure.