BUG: Logos/Verbum does not honor the user-selected Spoken content voice

I have set the system voice in iPadOS (my iPad) to 'David', but the Verbum app continues to use 'Samantha'. Does it not respect the iPadOS choice, or is there something I need to do?

I have tried hard restarts of the iPad, and to restart the app,

Ensure the voice is downloaded and selected here: Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Voices

AND selected here: Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Speech > Default Dialect.

I verified in using 'Speak' in Safari on my iPad, that the voice is properly selected/set up.

I read somewhere that Logos does not honor the user-selected “Spoken Content” voice. Instead, it calls Apple’s AVSpeechSynthesizer directly, and for English it defaults to the built-in compact female voice (“Samantha” in most cases). True? Samantha is clearly what I hear in Bibles that do not have the built in speaker like RSVCE.

Is this a bug that can be fixed? Samantha sounds awful doing the narration, no offense to her lol.

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BUG: Logos/Verbum does not honor the user-selected Spoken content voice
I have set the system voice in iPadOS (my iPad) to 'David', but the Verbum app continues to use 'Samantha'. Does it not respect the iPadOS choice, or is there something I need to do? I have tried hard restarts of the iPad, and to restart the app, Ensure the voice is downloaded and selected here: Settings > Accessibility >…