Roderick_Femm:
Recently, the voice that gives driving directions (at least the one on my phone) has changed. It seems to pronounce words slightly more distinctly than the previous voice, which is fine, but it is much less pleasing to listen to, and often shades into vocal fry.
I’ve griped about that here as well! I find that voice viscerally irritating. As far as I and AI can tell, there’s no way to change it without its losing the ability to vocalize street names.
I hate the new Google Maps voice. They gave it more vocal fry and more expressiveness to make it sound more human, but instead it just sounds more fake and more irritating. The only fix I’ve seen is to change the voice from Default (English) to English (US), but then it stops speaking the street names. The other option suggested is to change the voice on my Android phone, but the voice on my Android phone isn’t the same voice as the Google Maps.