{"id":45724,"date":"2017-10-04T09:54:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=45724"},"modified":"2017-10-04T09:54:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:54:45","slug":"google-assistant-gets-a-male-voice-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/google-assistant-gets-a-male-voice-option.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Assistant gets a male voice option"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Google Assistant gets a male voice option<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Google Assistant gets a male voice option:- You can now make your Google Assistant a dude. Google just added an ambiguously named &#8220;Voice II&#8221; option under the Assistant Voice settings menu in the Google Assistant preferences (first spotted by Android Police). Selecting it gives you a huskier AI assistant across all your devices; be it the iOS app, a Pixel phone, or the Google Home speaker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Here, have a listen to Voice I and Voice II side-by-side:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Often you&#8217;ll hear people use the pronouns &#8220;her&#8221; or &#8220;she&#8221; to refer to their digital assistants even though the formless slab of consumer electronics they\u2019re referencing is so obviously genderless. Not surprising really, when Apple&#8217;s Siri defaults to a voice labeled &#8220;female,&#8221; Microsoft&#8217;s Cortana default voice was recorded by Jen Taylor, and Amazon&#8217;s assistant is named Alexa. Now your Google Assistant can be a \u201che\u201d or \u201chim\u201d as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/10\/4\/16417558\/google-assistant-voice-ii-male<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/google-assistant-gets-a-male-voice-option.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Assistant gets a male voice option Google Assistant gets a male voice option:- You can now make your Google Assistant a dude. Google just added an ambiguously named &#8220;Voice II&#8221; option under the Assistant Voice settings menu in the Google Assistant preferences (first spotted by Android Police). Selecting it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[699,69473,13030,14826],"class_list":["post-45724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-breaking-news","tag-google-assistant-gets-a-male-voice-option","tag-latest-news-online","tag-latest-technology-news-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}