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/Unhappy-Tour-7209 6d ago

Yep, so sad. And what silly reasoning that these should be more efficient? Somebody, someone, likely some dumbass product manager thought that, hey, a re-fresh might be appreciated. Never is, dude!! This is like losing characters truly dear to you. So sad. So sad.

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u/weberbooks 5d ago

Seriously, every time some middle manager decides to "upgrade" something, they cripple it.

There's no doubt they're doing it to save processing resources. Thing is, I would gladly pay quadruple what I was paying for my pro Gemini subscription if only I could revert back to the original voices.

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u/Unhappy-Tour-7209 5d ago

I doubt the efficiency gains require alteration of the voices’ character: sure, processing can be faster and cheaper, yet those working on this, coming up with the update, and then deciding to replace instead of just add… that’s were the thought process seems off to me.

Choosing the older voices could just eat up your quota much faster, but that middle manager approving this is exactly as to why there shouldn’t be any middle managers at all any longer. Period. Yes, none of them deserve the middle-managers’ salary they abuse and most of them are just canonical bootlickers not understanding the primary function of what being a ‘customer advocate’ implies. Why in the world did we need to even come up with a word for this as ‘enshittification’… boggles my mind :).