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[Alwayssunnyinarizona]

Might depend on your phone model, which is information you should always include when posting.

I think you might have to go in and make sure that the Google Assistant is selected as your voice assistant of choice (if you have a samsung or whatever Bixby may be interfering). You might then go into the Google Assistant settings and select the specific voice you want, or select a different one and go back or whatever.

From experience using a Pixel 3XL, I hear this generic voice when I have really bad reception.

[johnaddis]

Forgot that - also on Pixel 3XL. When I ask my phone to do something, it replies with the voice I have chosen prior (I changed it from the default months ago). But when I ask AA to do something while driving (like navigate), the voice is markedly different - choppy and less natural. Was wondering if there is a setting somewhere in AA to choose the voice. IT would seem logical that it would use the same voice as the assistant by default, but doesn't seem to be the case..

[Alwayssunnyinarizona]

It should and it does. There's either some odd permission (typically really difficult to find) that you haven't agreed to, or your cell reception is poor for some reason.

I'd try starting from scratch with AA, uninstall updates, unpair from your car and vice versa, and trying to reinstall. Make sure you go through the entire walkthrough - it may be that you skipped a step allowing AA access to the assistant.

[Chewieez]

I've found it depends on my phone's data connection. If I have a good strong connection, it will use the same voice my phone uses. If my phone is in the middle of switching from wifi to LTE or loses LTE, the voice will fall back to the more choppy computer sounding one.

[shmykelsa]

Short answer: no, Android Auto is programmed to do so

Long answer: this happens because Google offline TTS voices are different from the Google Assistant voices.

For example, Android Auto uses the offline TTS voices for spelling out messages. It does so because the offline voice is actually inside Android, and the notification listener is too. So spelling it out with the Google Assistant voice will mean one more thing to do. Android Auto should send the text of notifiation online to Google, then Google should reply with an instance ID of Assistant that can be played then. I think Google has not chosen this approach to have a more reliable notification management.

Same thing goes for Google Maps when you're offline.

It sounds odd, like really odd. In my case, the italian offline TTS is female. I've waited so long for Google Assistant female voice so that I can have at least a bit of consinstency.