topic Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot in Speakers and Displays

Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

SU-user — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:25:51 GMT

The pronunciation of Google Assistant on my Nest Mini suddenly changed two days ago for the worse.

It used to speak Swedish quite fluently but now it sounds like a robot, putting emphasis in the wrong place consistently.

It sounds very much like an 80s robot, really crappy!

Don't understand why the functions gets worse and worse instead of better!

Other things, like the list functions, lost 90 % of its functions when changing to Keep and I STILL have to tell it to add items to "New List" to make it add it to my shopping list.

Yes, I have reported the above as feedback (the list stuff a yeat ago and several times) but I could just as well talk to empty space.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

SU-user — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:30:28 GMT

And before anyone writes some useless reply about restarting and updating apps, I HAVE restarted everything, I HAVE the latest version of apps and I HAVE a super wifi network.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

AxelD — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:07:31 GMT

Hi SU-user,

Thanks for reaching out to the Community. I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing issues with Google Assistant because the voice has changed to a more robotic tone. I understand that this might be unsettling, and I appreciate you sharing your feedback. We'll check it out this issue and consider it for future updates.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Best regards,
Axel.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

AndreasRejbrand — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:17:52 GMT

This has happened to me too.

My Google Nest devices have been speaking nice Swedish for years, but last month they started to sound like robots, not having any proper "sentence rhythm" but pronouncing each word separately. It sounds a bit like a parody on a computerised voice.

(Actually, there are way too many bugs in the Google Assistant/Home system. I have had the assistant (1) ask me repeatedly for the wake up time in an infinite loop, (2) set the alarm on the wrong day (24 hours later than expected), (3) refusing to turn on lights (but still being able to turn them off or changing their colours), (4) not recognising my lights when I speak Swedish, but strangely when I speak English, even though the assistant is configured for Swedish only. And (5) deleting reminders have never worked properly, but always produces very strange behaviour and responses. I have no idea if I am the only one experiencing these issues. Maybe Google isn't supporting the Google Assistant any more? It feels like it. Too bad, because I do love the idea and have bought many Nest speakers and displays.)

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

moralesvicente — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:54:44 GMT

Hello AndreasRejbrand,

Thank you so much for posting in this community. I understand you're experiencing some difficulties with your Nest devices. No worries; I'm here to assist you.

To provide you with accurate troubleshooting steps, I would appreciate your assistance in answering the following questions:

What type of Nest devices are experiencing the troubles? If you don’t know the models, check out this article: Google Nest devices.
What kind of lights do you have?
What model of mobile device are you using?
Have you performed any troubleshooting steps? If so, could you tell me which?

In the meantime, you can try to change the voice of your Google Assistant and see if the same behavior happens with another voice assistant.

On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Home app. Google Home.
At the top right, tap your profile picture or initials, then Assistant settings, and then Assistant voice.
Choose a voice.

For your reference, you can get more information in this article: Choose the voice of your Google Assistant.

Keep me posted so I can provide you with further assistance.

Best regards,

Daniel

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

SU-user — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 04:17:26 GMT

The advice about changing the voice does not work, I tried that. I have tried every possible setting in Home but the voice quality changed by itself from one day to another.

Either it's a bug or Google decided to change to some new voice (cheaper?) voice platform.

It feels like Google always try to point to the user even for completely obvious bugs and poor quality.

I have the same experience as Andreas, quality is declining and I am very disappointed with the Nest and Google Assistant.

My friend has the same voice issue btw. We have Nest Minis, that have sounded okay until now.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

Maxxxxxxxxx — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:01:39 GMT

I have the same issue. All of a sudden the Swedish voice is so bad and annoying to listen to. I really want this to be fixed, or I’m changing to apple.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

SU-user — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 04:15:56 GMT

Hello google, any replies to this? Any explanation?

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

ByronP — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 16:21:45 GMT

Hi Su-user,

Thank you for posting in the community. I understand how frustrating this must be with voice response on your Nest Mini. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

We're always working to improve our products, and your feedback is invaluable so we can address it better in future updates.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Regards,

Byron

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

SU-user — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:25:18 GMT

Yes, I have the same question as before, what happened, why is the voice so bad nowadays? Why can't you just switch back to how it was before? It's so bad it's difficult to understand.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

SU-user — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:27:48 GMT

I have already given feedback via that link, on this and other problems (like that I have to add items to "New list" in Swedish for then to be added to the shopping list. If I say add to shopping list, it wants to create a new list, over a year old bug, also used to work before), but it doesn't make any difference.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

Jayfrog214 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 02:36:33 GMT

This has also happened to my Nest Pro. Up until a week or so ago my Google assistant sounded more "polished" now "she" sounds very I guess almost mechanical in her responses... Same voice but very impersonal and not as helpful sounding, if that makes any sense. "She" sounds more robot than assistant.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

babtor — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:13:32 GMT

I have the same issue on my gen 2 Nest Hub, Swedish voice has been gradually becoming more and more robot like, to the point where it is hard to understand what it is saying.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

wickens — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 09:36:43 GMT

Same issue with Swedish language, at least make it possible to change to the old voice in settings for google assistant..

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

WebMaximus — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:50:25 GMT

Same issue over here.

Not sure what you guys at Google did to decrease the quality of the Swedish voice like this but whatever you did, please undo it.

With the number of people reporting the same thing, it's quite evident the issue is on Google side.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

comand — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:32:51 GMT

Same here and it just happen

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

Mist — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:30:30 GMT

Yeah, sorry to whoever provided the voice samples but whether it was a person or AI it just ain't it. The pitch is now even more unstable in the speech and more robotic sounding than the previous update.

The worst part is that despite it sounding more unnatural than ever before it now triggers some kind of uncanny valley reaction that makes me unsettled and pissed of when asking it questions.

If you can't keep the old voices to choose from you can at least give us some kind of beep boop robot voice as a third choice.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

Lager — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:14:25 GMT

Same with the Google nest hub gen 2, has worked flawlessly since buying it, up until yesterday. Now every word is "chopped" in to a sentence, with no natural rhythm.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

babtor — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:25:02 GMT

Any updates regarding this? It has been broken for months at this point.

Re: Voice om Nest suddenly much more like a robot

Cheese7856 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:09:27 GMT

It happend to me the same day. I have norwegian voice, but now it sounds more robotic. It sounds less robotic when I turn on a male voice, so I think I am going to keep the male voice turned on until it's fixed.