Voice of Google Maps Poland

Jaroslaw Juszkiewicz, long-time Polish Radio journalist ,for some 15 years has been guiding Polish drivers through the meanders of roads and winding paths both at home and abroad on a popular navigation app . The recent decision to replace his  voice with AI has caused a nationwide uproar in Poland.

This is the second attempt to replace Juszkiewicz’s voice with one generated by a speech synthesiser. In 2020, when Google briefly replaced Juszkiewicz , but the nationawide protest in Poland  prompted the company to reinstate the familiar voice after a week. Now however the decision is irreversible says Juszkiewicz...