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TL;DR Gemini lets you choose from your pick of voice models for its output, but doesn’t currently allow you to customize them further.
That may soon change, with new parameters that can be independently tweaked to your preference.
Options are set to include Speed, Energy, Warmth, and Formality.
Google Gemini is already an incredibly versatile tool, and that versatility doesn’t just extend to the questions it’s capable of answering, nor the tasks in can accomplish. We’re also talking about just how many options Google gives you for how you’d like to interact with the AI agent, letting you choose between some very distinct voice models: Orbit, Pegasus, Ursa, and more. And while that’s already very nice, it looks like Google’s currently working to give us a whole lot more fine-grained control over just how these voices sound.
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Right now, Gemini’s voices are largely all-or-nothing affairs: You choose one, and you just get to use it as-is. But checking out the changes present in version 17.41.12.sa.arm64 of the Google app for Android, we’ve identified work on a system that should eventually let you dial in a number of new parameters for further customizing Gemini’s voices.
Rather than using the voices as Google has already configured them, Gemini is getting ready to let us tweak four output options: Speed, Energy, Warmth, and Formality.
Once these are live, you’ll find them as adjustable sliders within Gemini voice settings:
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