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TL;DR
- Some Google Home users say Gemini’s voice options sound unusual, with most appearing to have non-native English accents.
- One Reddit user shared a screen recording of them cycling through the available Gemini voices on Google Home.
- Google says the issue is fixed in Google Home app version 4.11, rolling out to users by Wednesday.
Google is still working through the transition from Google Assistant to Gemini across its smart home devices, and the shift hasn’t been entirely smooth. The latest hiccup has left some Google Home users puzzled after noticing that many of Gemini’s voice options don’t sound quite the way they expected.
According to a post on the r/googlehome subreddit, a handful of users say several of the available Gemini voices in the Google Home app have accents that feel unusual for English-language assistant voices. Some commenters said most of the options sound like non-native English speakers, with only one or two voices sounding closer to the accents they anticipated.
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