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Devon Delfino. You can change the Google Maps voice that gives you directions by changing its language. On an Android phone, you can change your Google Maps voice in the app or in your phone's text-to-speech settings. On an iPhone , you'll have to change your Google Maps voice by changing the language of your entire phone. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Devon Delfino is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist specializing in personal finance, culture, politics, and identity.
Follow her on Twitter at devondelfino. Insider Inc. From here, each language that you choose will automatically download the required language pack. They range from about 6MB up to 30MB each. We just learned that when changing language choices, the language pack automatically downloads and installs for you.
You may do this manually as well, which provides access to the available gender representations of each language. Sadly, not all languages have multiple genders represented. However, UK English comes in both flavors. If you would like to hear the difference, consider checking out the AA Podcast — Our man Nirave lives in the UK and the rest of us North American hosts are usually happy to poke fun at him for it.
Sorry, getting back to our topic, to change the gender of the voice on your device, head back in to those same settings, then, after hitting the gear icon, tap on Install voice data. Now, if your language choice has gender options you will see them here. Tap on your choice to download the voice pack. If you are not using a language , follow these same steps to go into each language and hit the trash can icon to delete language packs that you do not intend to use.
This is why I mentioned the other speech engines earlier, you may not find what you are looking for through Google today. Officially, voice speed is called Speech rate. Changing the Speech rate, as I have implied, simply changes the speed of the voice, it does not change pitch or any other sound factor. Of course, at higher speeds, it will sound as though bits of speech have been cut out, effectively changing the experience, just perhaps not in a good way.
Many options are presented, each step will change the speed of the voice playback fairly slightly with Very Slow and Fastest being your top and bottom options. Very Slow is quite slow, most of us will get annoyed by the pace. However, the hard of hearing and those learning a new language may truly appreciate this option. Fastest, on the other end, is really extremely fast. Go ahead, select it, then hit the Listen to an example button.
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