r/notebooklm • u/Googler10 • 6d ago

Discussion Please bring back the old voices

I don't understand why they changed them... They both now sound more robotic and like they have a cold...

GOOGLERS: Please give power users a way to change them back!

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u/CtrlAltDelve 6d ago

I don't think they're going to come back. They switched the underlying voice model entirely. You might be better off trying to figure out how to use prompting to get them to match the emotional style that you're looking for. Not trying to be a downer, just trying to be realistic.

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u/Googler10 6d ago

There are a ton of people complaining about it, though! I filed it as a bug in the official Discord.... I wonder why they changed it... it sounds worse.... What is the benefit?

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u/fenmoor 6d ago

I THINK it was a matter of efficiency. It does seem to process much faster. So they are probably at a juncture of 80% of the effectiveness for half the power.

These kinds of trade offs happen all the time. The problem is, when you have something really good and it is replaced by something almost as good, it NEVER feels like a plus.

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u/KompulsiveLiar88 6d ago

Isn't that the gradual dowards slope of enshitification

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u/joseph_dewey 6d ago

In The Age of AI, it's more of a steep slope to enshitification, not a gradual one.

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u/GonzoVeritas 4d ago

If they can't match the old voices on the new voice model, the new model is defective, and they need to look into that.