Google Now's gender identity issues

[Teknologic]

For some bizarre reason between now and 2 days ago, my Google voice switched from being a female voice to a male one. It also sounds quite British now (not sure, only heard 2 words)?
But I haven't changed any settings, still on English (US).
Anyone else been experiencing Google Now being quite ambiguous in the gender department? I was a bit startled

 

[breadnatty08]

Hasn't changed for me. Well, perhaps it's a different woman's voice, slightly more natural.
Checked both my N7 and Gnex. Perhaps it's because you're abroad?

 

[Teknologic]

Well that's the thing, I've always been abroad
Nothing about my location has changed in the past days, there's really nothing I can think of to explain this little quirk :>
But that's all it is tho, a quirk. In fact I kind of like being surprised by Google. Although if they're gonna be changing voices around I'd welcome an option to select it myself.

 

[AntimonyER]

It sounds like your text to speech output was switched from the US to the British voice. You can check this by going to settings/language & input/text-to-speech output. Then next to the Google Text-to-speech engine, click the setting button, choose the language option, and choose the english (united states). That should get you the woman back.

 

[Teknologic]

Haha thanks! No idea why I didn't figure that out myself, I knew that setting was there. Guess I just never used it on any previous devices. Now that I have a choice, I'm not sure what to pick
The British accent is pretty fun but the voice sounds more mechanical than the US one.

 

[TobesEtc]

I was running Google Navigation recently and suddenly for one instruction only, it switched gender. Made me laugh.