Google introduces three new Voices of Gemini on the Nest Mini and Nest Audio speakers

Google continues to push on the accelerator in the race toartificial intelligenceand this time it does so by focusing on the voice ofAssistant on their smart speakers thanks to an increasingly close integration with Gemininow pillar of the Big G. ecosystem

In the past few hours the Mountain View company has introduced Three new Gemini voices for devices Nest Mini And Nest Audiobringing to ten the total of the “natural” vocal options available.

The novelty marks another step in the evolution of the user experience and in the transition to the Gemini models in the Google assistant who is preparing to pass the witness to the chatbot Ia of the Mountain View giant.

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The assistant welcomes three new Voices of Gemini: Yarrow, Croton and Pilea

The new voices introduced by Google are baptized, as tradition, with names of plants and are the following:

• Yarrow: described as hot and with a deeper stamp
• Croton: defined as “smoth”, also with a lower shade.
• Pilea: On the contrary, it looks like lively and with a higher register.

These new options are added to the seven already introduced last December, completing a range of possibilities capable of adapting to the needs of users.

The voices available today include:

• Aloe: calm, with a medium stamp.
• Oxalis: bright, always on an average register.
• Fern: brilliant, with a more acute stamp.
• Verbena: calm, but deeper.
• Ivy: with British accent, medium tone.
• Jade: engaging, always on an average register.
• Eucalyptus: Australian accent, tall tone.

The result desired by Google is that of a increasingly natural assistant e conversationaldirection that has undergone an acceleration with the advent of the AI ​​and the Large Language Models, which can adapt its tone and style of speech based on the tastes of the user.

The 9to5Google colleagues managed to activate the three new voices and shared a video thanks to which to listen to the aforementioned vocal options.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1hvz5Owwwwi

How to activate new items

To experience these news, you need to participate in the program of Public preview Of Google Home; If you are registered, make sure the option “Experimental to the features“Let it be enabled: just press the beuta -shaped icon in the upper right corner of the app Google Home To check.

Once the experimental mode is activated, you can proceed to change the item going in Settings> Google Assistant> Voce and sounds of the assistant. On iOS, however, an extra step may be necessary and switch from “Manage all the assistant settings”To find the correct section.

These new voices are part of a wider project: the integration of the Gemini models within the Google ecosystem.

Yet another piece in the transition from Google Assistant to Gemini

Since last December, Google has started to test a Google Assistant powered by Gemini On Nest Mini and Audio devices. The goal has always been to create a vocal assistant capable of “Respond to a wider range of questions and provide more in -depth answers, based on artificial intelligence, on general culture topics.“As stated by Big G.

Another interesting aspect concerns the future of the brand itself, although the fate of assistant has already been marked for months.

With the progressive arrival of Gemini in the various devices, Google could decide to completely abandon the “Google Assistant” brandjust as already happened on Google TV and how it would be happening also on Wear OS in which the app dedicated to the assistant would be leaving the place of the one dedicated to Gemini.

The three new Gemini voices introduced by Google for Nest Mini and Audio are not only a technical update but represent a fundamental piece of the evolution strategy of the assistant and his Transition to Gemini This is thus also preparing to populate the smart speakers of the giant; As part of a Google ecosystem focused on the boundless potential of its chatbot and its linguistic models.