I noticed yesterday that our primary beta tester and Mah Jongg pro, Lorraine, could not set her voice to her voice. I found that the voice control does not work when the network option is set to “None”. This is what most people are using (default?). In this case, the primary player has my voice (called Male 1). Since most people playing Mah Jongg seem to be women, you probably don’t want my voice for your player. I will work on fixing this for the next update. As a workaround, you can change the network option to “direct” or “server” and then you should not have this problem. To change the network option from a game display, select “Lobby” from the menu button, then use the Option Button and Network setup page. To switch to a female primary voice, go to the sound options and change the voice assignment with your user ID to one of the female voice options (Female 1 to 4).

You might note that there are 4 female voice options, but only 3 different female voices. I would like 4 women to at least be able to play with 4 female voices, if not their own voices. I have not yet found the 4th standard female voice. If you would like to be immortalized as one of the JLMahJongg voices and have your voice build in as one of the voice choices, let me know. If you are the first to successfully produce the voice recordings before I find someone else to do it, I may use your voice. If you are using a Mac Desktop or MacBook (most users), you should be able to enter your voice as an option using the app in about 10 minutes or less. I can then tell you how to find the voice files and send them to me.

Recording custom voices is not enabled on iPads and iPhones (iOS) and the browser version.