How do I pick a foreign voice?

[SunnyRio]

I have an original Google Home speaker.  I live in the UK, although the speaker is the American version.  It has two voices, British male and British female.  How do I change it to another voice, say with an American accent?  Surely it must be able to do a voice it would do should I take it back to the USA?

[xanonxspiderx]

Google Home App>Settings>Google Assistant>All Assistant Settings .... Scroll down to Assistant Voice & Sounds.

Alternatively, if you don't have home app, can also go to:

Google App>Upper right corner profile>Settings>Google Assistant>Assistant Voice & Sounds. 

[SunnyRio]

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@xanonxspiderx wrote:

Google Home App>Settings>Google Assistant>All Assistant Settings .... Scroll down to Assistant Voice & Sounds.

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 Yes I've been there before.  It only has two, orange and red,  Orange is the male UK, red is the female UK.  there are no others.

[xanonxspiderx]

From what I've researched, UK only has the two available. Unfortunately, I haven't seen a way to incorporate the other voices that US currently has. 

[xanonxspiderx · Accepted solution]

I've been able to possibly come up with a solution as I was able to replicate the issue you're having.

Go into Google assistant settings and click on Languages (For speaking to your assistant) and choose English(US) as the language.

I did the reverse (choosing English(UK)) and only had to voice options. Switched back to US and all voices available. 

[xanonxspiderx]

Keep in mind this may or may not affect assistants ability to understand annunciation or deep accents. That I cannot test. 

[SunnyRio]

Thanks, this works, I can select all the accents now.  British has two, American has several, but the other international ones like English Thailand (which also have several voices) don't seem to have much of an accent.

I have zero accent so it understands me clearly in either language.

However I can put on accents.  I tried strong Yorkshire and Glaswegian and Australian, and it still understood me whether it was set to English British or English American.

[xanonxspiderx]

Good to hear you were able to access the other voices and resolve your issue. Glad I could help 🙂

[Muddi]

Hey SunnyRio,

I hope we were able to answer your question with the info provided by @xanonxspiderx. If you have additional questions, feel free to respond to this thread and we'd be happy to further assist you.

Cheers,

Muddi

[Muddi]

Hey SunnyRio,

I haven’t heard back, so I'll be locking this thread if we won't hear back from you again in 24 hours. Feel free to create a new one if you have more questions or have other concerns in the future.

Cheers,

Muddi