Google Translate has the power to provide you with a lot of things related to translations. Google Translate translates to various languages around the world. Aside from this, it also provides voice feedback, translates web pages, translates text messages, and so much more.
Suppose you are in the middle of your translation-related tasks, and you suddenly want to change the voice of Google Translate to male. Is this possible? Read along because we got the answer to your question.
Can You Change Google Translate’s Voice To Male?
Unfortunately, generally speaking, the answer is no for the users of Google Translate. You cannot change its gender voice.
That means if your language in Google Translate carries a female voice by default, you will not be able to change it, such as to a male voice. The same applies when changing the default male voice in Google Translate to female.
However, this we tackle more later on, some languages in Google Translate have male voices by default, such as Italian, and you cannot also change the male voice to a female voice.
But Why? Why Doesn’t Google Translate Offer Changing The Gender Of Its Voice?
Google has not been very specific as to why it does not allow you to change the voice to either male or female. Still, if we are to guess, it is because the translator utilizes various program modules per language.
Such modules are only recorded in one language by either a male or a female in a professional studio, and this recording takes several hours. Recording the same module in both a male and female voice is not only super time-consuming but also makes little sense for the financial aspect of it all, if you know what we mean.
Therefore, sad to say, for those who want to try this option, Google Translate only offers translation in either male or female voice.
But there might be a possibility. Keep on reading as we find ways should this become possible.
Can Your Change The Accent In Google Translate?
According to the Google community, where users ask questions that other users can answer, you cannot change the way how the input text and translation are spoken, but you can change the settings within the Google Translate app.
To do this, go to settings. Then to Voice (Region), and choose the Region.
For instance, you can change or modify the accent for English in Australia, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Moreover, you can change the gender voice and accent-specific voices in Google Translate’s Android version on your phone’s OS and Google Assistant, which provides you with multiple accents to choose from. You can choose between male and female voices for any language as well.
Which Google Translate Languages Have A Male Voice By Default?
But if you really want to hear Google Translate as a male, you can just instead listen to certain languages that have the male voice by default and are available in male voices. These languages are Arabic, Bengali, Italian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, and English (Australia).
Want to find out which languages have a male voice in Google Translate? Follow these steps:
- Head over to translate.google.com.
- Then, enter the text or phrase you want to translate.
- Afterward, click on the drop-down arrow in the right field and select the language you want your text to be translated.
- On the box to the right of the screen that is the space for translated text, Google Translate will generate a translation automatically.
- Now, click on the speaker icon to hear the translation spoken.
- To listen to a different voice speaking in translation, you only have to change the language from the drop-down arrow and tap on the speaker icon again.
This way, you can know which languages are spoken in which gender by default on Google Translate.
Yes, You Can Change Google Translate’s Voice On Your Android Phone
You read that right. So, despite the general answer that you cannot change the voice of Google Translate to male, or female, you can use your Android phone to change Google Translate’s voice. Surprised?
Below are the steps to follow.
- Proceed to Settings.
- Click on Language & input.
- Then, tap on Text-to-speech output.
- Lastly, click on the Settings icon next to “Google text-to-speech engine.” Easy-peasy, right?
Then, install voice data and select whether you want a male or female voice from the options given.
Relevant Frequently Asked Questions
1. Why Is It That Some Google Translate Language Text-To-Speech Is Still So Bad?
Different tasks machines or software perform are based on codes and algorithms by which they perform their tasks. It may happen that a machine can overpower or beat a human being at chess, but it yet cannot do the same with language.
The Google Translate text-to-speech or TTS is an engineering project. And for the engineers, even if the tool works with 50 percent accuracy, it is a success, and they keep enhancing this technology to raise the accuracy rate higher for specific languages.
However, some bugs, deprecated functionality, and other issues still emerge, making some languages not as good to translate as others.
2. How Accurate Is Google Translate?
Google Translate’s accuracy rate might not be 100 percent perfect for all languages, but this is increasing. Furthermore, engineers and technicians are working to develop this further so Google Translate can be more successful, useful, and handy.
There is a 2019 study published in media outlets that found the results of Google Translate for Spanish were 90 percent accurate. However, for other languages like Korean, Tagalog, and Chinese, the accuracy rate was between 80 to 90 percent.
However, at the same time, there was also a drop in the accuracy rate for languages like Armenian and Farsi, in which the accuracy rate was 57 percent and 67 percent, respectively.
Therefore, it can be deduced that the accuracy depends on the language, too, apart from the algorithm and other mechanisms at play.
3. Can You Change Siri’s Voice To Make Or Female On An Apple Device?
Siri is a virtual assistant part of Apple Inc.’s iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS, and audioOS operating systems. In other words, Siri is working on almost all Apple devices. Before, Siri had a default female voice, which, interestingly, the United Nations criticized and asked to stop making digital assistants female by default (think about Cortana, too), and program assistants to discourage abusive or sexist language.
Siri now has both male and female voices with six various accents, such as American, Australian, British, Indian, Irish, or South American.
Here are the steps if you want to change Siri’s voice or accent.
- Head over to settings, then to Siri & Search.
- Afterwards, tap on Siri Voice.
- Select the accent you want.
- Finally, choose whether you want a female or male voice
It seems things about choosing male or female voices are more possible with Siri than with Google Translate.
