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Google's getting some new voices on your phone (Updated: Rolling out)
May 27, 2025
- A few months ago, Google introduced four new voices for AI Mode for Search in a Google app beta.
- Those voices are rolling out now and are no longer limited to AI Mode.
- You can now hear those same voices when you perform a voice search through the mic icon.
Update: May 27, 2025 (11:15 PM ET): It looks like Google has started rolling out the new space-inspired voices for voice search that we mentioned in the APK teardown below. Some of our team members are already seeing them in the voice settings, so you might want to check if they’re available on your device too.
Original article: May 27, 2025 (11:50 AM ET): Gemini Live offers a wide range of AI voices to choose from, allowing you to find the one that’s most pleasing to your ear. Google also recently added voice options for Search’s AI Mode. Now there’s another area where you’ll be able to customize your AI voice preferences.
An APK teardown helps predict features that may arrive on a service in the future based on work-in-progress code. However, it is possible that such predicted features may not make it to a public release.
When we discovered earlier this year that Google was planning to add voice search capabilities to AI Mode for Search, we found that users would have four different voices to choose from. At the time, the voice settings page listed these options as Jungle, Lime, Royal, and Sapphire. However, we later found that the names were changed to something more space-related: Cosmo, Neso, Terra, and Cassini. Although these voice options were initially only available for AI Mode, it looks like these voices won’t be limited to just that feature anymore.
In our latest APK teardown of the Google app (version 16.20.48.sa.arm64 beta), we have learned that you’ll also hear these same four voices when you perform a voice search through the mic icon. This is the case for the Pixel launcher/widget and for the Google app’s homescreen. Previously, this feature only used a single female voice. In the video below, you can hear the Neso voice in action.
AI Mode for Search just recently rolled out broadly for users in the US. If you haven’t tried it yet, see what we thought of the feature in our hands-on.