This is light hearted but why has Avast replaced the rather sexy woman’s voice with a rather plummy voiced teenaged boy? :)Can I have the girl back please
What boy ???
If you are referring to the English version - it sure looks like a girl to me.
http://blog.avast.com/2013/12/20/avast-2014-brings-a-familiar-voice-to-british-users/
She’s a she not a he! ;D
And She sounds terrible.
I am not British, and not even American… well… from South America, but I like better the old American English girl than this new UK accent. No offence to our UK members.
LOL
I don’t know where I’ve been but I have not paid attention long enough to noticed a difference… :
It does sound pretty bad, at least I don’t have to listen to it here as it’s only for the UK users, mind you though the voices don’t even work at the moment so no one will have to listen to her
Voice and pop-ups work correctly for me but as I use headphones, and only when I have something specific to listen to, I had to go to the Blog announcement to hear her voice. It doesn’t sound very “English” to me.
None taken, as it really doesn’t sound like an English British accent and there are an enormous amount of different regional accents. To me it sounds so false almost like someone trying to copy what they consider an English British accent.
I’ve just seen the other post and the blog post on this but was just going on the sound. It does sound like a boy whose voice is about to break rather than a woman but whatever it is it is flat and charmless. Apparently the woman concerned is a radio host as well…
English is english and ive often found the term “american english and australian english” very amusing.
They are merely regional accents of the same root language.
Here in england we have several regional accents.
Geordie.
Scottish.
Brummie.
Scouse
etc…etc.
Also i find the term “english british accent” very puzzling and highly comical.
British accent can include every corner of the UK and is just a generalisation.
English accent would be a far more acceptable term as it would simply imply england as the speakers main country.
The english language has dramatically changed over the years and has unfortunately been torn apart also.