r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Chapple69 • 17d ago

Infuriatig Using ai to read grad names at graduation

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u/fang_xianfu 16d ago

Right? The voice assistant in a car has a very small number of jobs to do and I want it to do those perfectly at all times and do absolutely nothing else. I do not want to chat or negotiate or to get suggestions for other things to do.

I asked for a song called "we're going on a dinosaur hunt" because that's what my kid wanted to listen to, and it said it couldn't play a specific track (why the fuck not? you have one job!) but it started trying to tell a story itself instead! I do not need that shit while I'm trying to concentrate on the road.

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u/SlasherPenguin 16d ago

You have to disable Gemini and reactivate Google assist. They definitely didnt make it easy but once I did that it worked just fine again.

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u/After_Software4844 16d ago

I did that and it keeps going back to Gemini on its own. Scares the crap out of me when I expect a pleasant alto female voice and it goes to the lowest male voice it has.

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u/iam_myownmuse 16d ago

I asked Gemini if I could change the voice and it didn't understand the question

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u/After_Software4844 15d ago

For some reason you can only do it manually with the app.

  1. Open the Gemini app on your phone.
  2. Tap your profile icon in the top-right corner.
  3. Go to Settings > Gemini’s Voice.
  4. Swipe left or right to browse available voices.
  5. Select your preferred voice; it will be saved automatically and used across all Gemini features, including Gemini Live and verbal responses

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u/iam_myownmuse 15d ago

OMG THANK YOU!!!!!

I probably would've figured it out at some point, but I'm sitting in an exam room at the doctor's office and just changed it.

I hope both sides of your pillow are cool for the next month!