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Overview

When an agent talks out loud, in a meeting or in Talk in the dashboard and Genesis Desktop, it speaks in one voice. Two per-agent settings decide which voice:
  • Gender picks the kind of voice: female, male or neutral.
  • Voice names one voice to use instead. Leave it on Automatic (by gender) to let the gender pick.
A change takes effect the next time that agent’s voice starts. A voice that is already running keeps its voice until it ends.

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Where to set them

  1. Open Agents and choose the agent.
  2. Open its LLM tab.
  3. Under Gender, choose Female, Male or Unspecified.
  4. Under Voice, choose Automatic (by gender) or one voice from the list. The voices are grouped Female, Male and Neutral. To hear the chosen voice, press Play beside the list. It plays a short recorded sample of that voice, in the voice’s own language; press Stop to end it early. Choose another voice and press Play again to compare. The samples are part of Genesis, so playing one costs nothing and works offline.
Each choice is saved as soon as you make it. Changing them needs the right to manage that agent: the manage_agents permission, or management rights on that agent. You can also ask an agent that can manage agents, such as Eve, to make the change: for example “make Gennie female” or “have Adam speak in willow”.

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How the voice is chosen

When the gender picks, each agent keeps the same voice for as long as its gender stays the same. Female and male follow OpenAI’s own description of each GPT-Live voice. OpenAI does not describe the neutral voices as female or male, so some of them may still sound female or male to you. If an agent should sound a particular way, choose its Voice directly. The Voice list also includes Genesis voices in other languages (Portuguese, German, French, Hindi, Japanese and Korean), and marin. The gender never picks those on its own; choose one under Voice to use it.

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Eve

Eve is Female by default and speaks in marin. Both are defaults, not fixed values: choose another gender or voice for Eve the same way as for any agent, and your choice is kept. Setting Eve’s Voice to Automatic (by gender) gives her a voice picked by her gender instead of marin. If Genesis cannot read an agent’s voice settings when its voice starts, it does not hold up the conversation: the agent speaks as if nothing were saved for that session (Eve in marin, any other agent in a neutral voice), and its saved gender or voice applies again the next time its voice starts with its settings readable. No other agent is given marin by its gender, so by default no other agent sounds like Eve.