\tGoogle launched new voices for its virtual assistant in nine countries, bolstering effort to expand users\u2019 choices and bring more diversity to its service.<\/p>\n
The option to choose between different voices is rolling out this week in German, French, Dutch, Norwegian, Italian, Korean, Japanese, English in the UK and English in India.<\/p>\n
Google explained in a statement that the voices are displayed by colour instead of gender, as it believes \u201cit\u2019s important to present these voices without any labels\u201d.<\/p>\n
The internet giant has another interesting approach to the new voices for the Assistant app, randomly assigning a voice when a user first sets up their Google Assistant.<\/p>\n
This will give them a 50\/50 chance of getting one of two voices \u2013 the \u201cred\u201d voice or the \u201corange\u201d voice.<\/p>\n
Google added that all the new voices were built with DeepMind\u2019s WaveNet technology \u201cwhich make them sound natural, with great pitch and pacing\u201d.<\/p>\n
The variety of Google Assistant voices is larger in the US, with 11 available English voices in total.<\/p>\n
Assistant is available in more than 30 languages to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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