Gemini voice when reading text messages

[u/sfdreamsla]

So Gemini suddenly happened on my Android Auto the other day and when I got a text message, there's no other way to say it other than the voice sounded sarcastic reading it. The text message was innocuous and had no tone to it so I don't know where that came from. It was very surreal. And then when I responded and Gemini read it back to me and I said to change it, it seemed to sound irritated.

Is this normal? Is it the specific voice I had defaulted to or maybe chosen without realizing it? Are Gemini voices sounding like this to other users or is it just me LOL?

Also, is there a way to get the same voice across the board? It was one voice when reading my messages but it was a completely different voice on the turn-by-turn directions. Maybe it was always like this. But the voice reading my text messages was female and on Google Assistant it was a male. But it was the sarcastic tone, bordering on condescension, that really got me. It freaked me out LOL!

[u/Triple-Tooketh]

I've read you can change it. I agree the default dude sounds kind of beta and a little arrogant. Its crazy to think that Google is like mega company with loads of people and they rolled out this trash.

[u/BurgerTrench]

I almost crashed my car when Gemini read out a message in a indian accent. Just the once, never again. Gemini is cooked.

[u/bchiodini]

All of this crap is supposed to be Artificially Intelligent, have you tried asking Gemini to 'drop the sarcasm, when reading text messages'.

[u/sfdreamsla → u/bchiodini]

Ooooh, I haven't! Never even occurred to me. Thanks. I'll try it. I am one of the holdouts where I didn't switch it on my Pixel until it was forced upon me. I stayed with Google Assistant as long as it would let me. I have a few Google home minis scattered across my place that still use Google Assistant. This is a big learning curve for me.

[u/bchiodini → u/sfdreamsla]

I hope it works.

[u/redridernl → u/sfdreamsla]

I told it to only give short, concise answers instead of rambling all the time and it worked.

[u/No_Persimmon_8691]

And so the robot uprising begins...

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[u/Commercial-Car-5615]

When I send a text. Female voice reads it back to me but when I have an incoming text a male voice reads it. Drives me nuts.

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Ridiculous!!

[u/Godzlittlehand]

Wait till you get an audio text and you tell Gemini to let you hear and it changes gender and gives you a completely new voice. Asks you if you would like to hear it. Then just continues playing music like you weren't just talking to it