Google Gemini tries out a second voice
Why, Gemini, you suddenly sound so much more compassionate.
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- Previously male, Gemini is now speaking in a female voice.
- Right now, there’s no way to toggle between the two voices.
- We previously saw work towards adding a new voice option in the Google app’s settings.
How important to you is how your phone sounds? No, we don’t mean the audio quality from its speakers (although that can be pretty important), but “who” you’re talking to when you’re interacting with your phone’s virtual assistant. Google Assistant lets you choose from between a dozen different voice profiles, with two new ones introduced just last year. But so far, with Google’s new Gemini AI, you’ve only had a single voice to talk to. Now that situation is finally changing.
We first caught wind of development heading in this direction about a month ago, when we discovered Google working on a new settings option for its Android app. While it wasn’t functional at the time, it appeared that Google was planning to give users the ability to choose between two voices — and notably, this was all distinct from Assistant voice settings. Although this new addition being related to Gemini wasn’t a slam dunk, it certainly seemed like one of the best theories we had at the time.
