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  Assistant voice Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-12-05 13:31 +0000
    Re: Assistant voice "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-12-05 15:28 +0100
    Re: Assistant voice Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2024-12-05 09:35 -0800
    Re: Assistant voice Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-12-05 19:24 +0100
      Re: Assistant voice micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-12-05 18:03 -0500
        Re: Assistant voice Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-12-05 23:07 +0000
          Re: Assistant voice micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-12-06 00:01 -0500

#144940 — Assistant voice

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?

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#144942

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).

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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#144948

On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 13:31:39 +0000, 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?

I can't say whether there was a change, because today I used 
Assistant for the first time. But I did hear that flat male voice in 
response to a request for tomorrow's weather.

-- 
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA         https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...

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#144953

On 05.12.24 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?

My Google-Navigation-System in my EV was updated and showed the same
effect. The aural guidance is still this lovely girl's voice once the
trip started.

-- 
"Roma locuta, causa finita." (Augustinus)

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#144959

In comp.mobile.android, on Thu, 5 Dec 2024 19:24:28 +0100, Jörg Lorenz
<hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:

>On 05.12.24 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?
>
>My Google-Navigation-System in my EV was updated and showed the same
>effect. The aural guidance is still this lovely girl's voice once the
>trip started.

I have voice turned off in my phone's navigation, but yesterday, a voice
chimed in to say that there was a report of a cop at the place coming
up, and it let me tap yes or no that he was still there.   I haven't
heard a voice in years, even when I've gotten stuck in trafffic on the
xway.   

They have 6 or 8 examples of kinds of road delays.  I wonder if cops are
a special category, and in general, if anyone has complained about
google warning drivers about cops. After all, their preesence should be
a suprise. 

I didn't see a cop. 

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#144960

micky wrote:

> I have voice turned off in my phone's navigation, but yesterday, a voice
> chimed in to say that there was a report of a cop at the place coming
> up, and it let me tap yes or no that he was still there.

I have alerts like that set to silent, I also had a "police ahead" 
pop-up yesterday for the first time, I was travelling to the county 
police HQ at the time.

They do seem to be pushing Waze features across to Maps, the directions 
of which lane to be in at junctions is comically inaccurate though.

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#144972

In comp.mobile.android, on Thu, 5 Dec 2024 23:07:22 +0000, Andy Burns
<usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

>micky wrote:
>
>> I have voice turned off in my phone's navigation, but yesterday, a voice
>> chimed in to say that there was a report of a cop at the place coming
>> up, and it let me tap yes or no that he was still there.
>
>I have alerts like that set to silent, I also had a "police ahead" 
>pop-up yesterday for the first time, I was travelling to the county 
>police HQ at the time.
>
>They do seem to be pushing Waze features across to Maps, the directions 

That's right.  I forgot tha the cop information it said came from Waze. 

>of which lane to be in at junctions is comically inaccurate though.

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