The next time you need to take the next exit at the roundabout, you might notice something different: Google Maps’ iconic voice has changed in the route directions.
Nikki Garcia, the voice actress who has been accompanying us on all our Google Maps trips for years, announced on X that she has stopped being the voice of Google Maps, effective immediately. On your next itinerary A new voice awaits you, something more serious
Taking the next exit at the roundabout will never be the same again
Google has changed the voice of Google Maps, and this time, radically. It’s not Nikki Garcia’s synthesized voice anymorebut another completely different voice that we don’t know at the moment if it is synthesized from another voice actress or generated with AI.
Nikki Garcia’s voice has been with us on Google Maps for years, standing out f or having too expansive intonation for several years
NOW Google Maps’ classic voice changes and the directions on which exit to take from the roundabout or which way to go west will sound completely different and, in a way, somewhat robotic. The new voice is somewhat generic and doesn’t sound very natural in some directions.
The new voice is no longer that of Nikki García, who can continue to be heard on Renfe Cercanías, some of her other dubbing works or her first single in Spanish, available on Spotify.
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By | The Free Android
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