Has the Google maps...
 

[Closed] Has the Google maps lady gone on holiday?

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And left a softly spoken gentleman to cover for her?

The voice changed last night, can’t find anywhere to change it back? 🤷🏻‍♂️


 
Posted : 06/08/2020 11:16 pm
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I noticed this yesterday but it was only part of the time and kept switching between him and her


 
Posted : 06/08/2020 11:18 pm
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Same voice here and she also pointed me to this how to, to change the voice.😁

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-change-google-maps-voice


 
Posted : 06/08/2020 11:19 pm
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Seems to be a random switching between the two. Very annoying.


 
Posted : 06/08/2020 11:33 pm
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I have the usual French lady whose efforts in Germany and Poland have me thinking "Où ça ?". I'll have to visit the UK to find out how she does with Leicester, Machynlleth, Leominster... .


 
Posted : 06/08/2020 11:40 pm
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switching between him and her

Given Google's corporate standpoint on gender/sex/reassignment etc they probably don't assign a gender pronoun to the clearly male and female voices.


 
Posted : 06/08/2020 11:41 pm
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Ok, so it changes between they and they, or as they're AI is it changing between it and it??


 
Posted : 06/08/2020 11:49 pm
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They do it by a range of colours in Google Home, I only have UK voice options and I think one is yellow and the other is red.


 
Posted : 06/08/2020 11:50 pm
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It changes between they with a tone I like to they with an annoying distracting tone I'm not used to.


 
Posted : 06/08/2020 11:56 pm
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[i]It changes between they with a tone I like to they with an annoying distracting tone I’m not used to.[/i]

MrsWCA does that too


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 11:14 am
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The Garmin lady doesn't like "Villingen-Schwenningen" or Kirkcudbright


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 11:50 am
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Well she’s back this morning!

Although somewhat slightly confused, maybe she thinks she’s still abroad, most of the time she was working in miles, with the occasional kilometres to keep me on my toes.

I changed my phone to US English and it did seem to change the voice, but I set it straight back to UK.


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 12:05 pm
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The TomTom female voice on my phone has a very soft, beguiling Irish accent, although I had to change the imperial setting to miles and yards from miles and feet, for some bizarre reason.
Lovely accent, though.


 
Posted : 08/08/2020 1:48 am
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It changes between they with a tone I like to they with an annoying distracting tone I’m not used to.

There does seem to be a different tone when it needs to speak fast.

Last year for a couple of weeks it had a great passive aggressive approach when rerouting. Went "okay" in a lovely "you bleeping idiot" tone but sadly that didnt last.


 
Posted : 08/08/2020 12:02 pm