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Female Australian Polly Voice (en-AU)
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- Kotlin
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Description
I've now received a bunch of upset emails because the female Australian voice is now a male voice. I know it's silly, but apparently it's important to some people. The en-IN, en-US, and en-GB voices are all the same as they were before. Does anyone know why this has happened or how to change it back?
I had previously filed an issue (#1935) to see if I could change the gender and it didn't seem possible. Well, the gender has definitely changed. Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated. Ideally, selecting gender is the best option. Switching it back to a female voice would also be nice.
**Mapbox Navigation SDK version:**
0.42.6 (I will update this soon...I know it's an old version)
### Steps to reproduce
1. Set Locale to "en-AU"
2. Start navigation.
3. Voice is now male.
### Expected behavior
It's been a female voice for the last year and a half...basically since I created the app.
### Actual behavior
Voice is now male.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the en-AU voice behavior with Mapbox Navigation SDK 0.42.6 using the listed steps, then inspect how the SDK selects the voice for that locale. Compare the result with the en-IN, en-US, and en-GB locales. Done means the en-AU voice is female again or gender selection is supported.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- kotlin
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100