Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > comp.mobile.android > #144959

Re: Assistant voice

From micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: Assistant voice
Message-ID <s0c4lj9bomft330bvdphfd53p6l1cgljgn@4ax.com> (permalink)
References <lrdo9sFrjqmU2@mid.individual.net> <visr4s$rq5o$1@solani.org>
Organization Tweaknews
Date 2024-12-05 18:03 -0500

Show all headers | View raw


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. 

Back to comp.mobile.android | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

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

csiph-web