Re: Assistant voice

On 2024-12-05 14:31, Andy Burns wrote:

OK, a Fuchsia question rather than Android, but it's all Google ecosystem.
 I have several Chromecast and Nest devices, including a 1st Gen Nest Hub with screen as my "alarm clock"
 A couple of days ago, the voice that it uses changed from a very synthetic sounding female voice to a quite natural (though rather flat) sounding male voice, the firmware date is 2024-08-05 so not /that/ recent.
 Anyone else notice a similar change?  Is it Gemini/AI?

In Spain, the voice of the alarm clock changed, from that of a voice actress, Nikki García, to another voice that sounds more serious and flat. We don't know who is the new voice yet, or if its artificial. The map voice changed earlier, September I think (I don't use it, so I did not notice).
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Cheers, Carlos.