This new voice shouldn't exist with the UK Thomas name. Just make a new one that no one will use with this new awful voice and bring the original back. It is the best voice on any map app.

This new voice shouldn't exist with the UK Thomas name. Just make a new one that no one will use with this new awful voice and bring the original back. It is the best voice on any map app.

I have sent a message to your customer service about this, but the new UK Thomas sounds awful. Please bring back the old UK voice. The new one sounds like a complete jerk and pronounces "pot hole" as "po hole". So annoying.

Strongly agree, the new UK Thomas and UK Kate voices are jarring compared to the older versions. They also pronounce some street names wrong, this was not the case with the old versions. They are not pleasing to use.

I hate the new Thomas voice!!!!!

Is this some AI voice to avoid having to pay royalties to the former voice actor?? I can't think of any other reason why they would replace an extremely functional existing product with a new worse once. Shame on Waze if so, pay talent and give us back Thomas.

Bring back old calming UK Kate voice

I fail to understand why waze decided to change thomas' voice to this rushed, short, ubruped voice? Who is responsible for this??

Bring back the old UK Thomas!!!! We miss him.

All the "charm" of the Thomas UK voice is gone. The new one slurs words, is extremely curt and grates on my ear. For the first time in years, I've switched to Italian (not my native language) and this happened only after one short ride of hearing the "new guy".

The new voice comes across angry and impatient.

It speaks too quickly so is difficult to hear the full instructions.

Please change to a better, more pleasant voice

I agree. Thomas now speaks too rapidly and is curt & annoying.

Agreed... the new voices for UK Kate and Thomas are rubbish.
I might delete Waze from my iphone and find another GPS/ SatNav... others are available on the App Store

Both UK Kate & UK Thomas are really grating on the ear now. Please change back

The new voices are as if they had taken MDMA pills: the voices are speedy, dry... Very far from the sweet, melodious voices that guided us not long ago.

Please bring back the old Thomas without the dreadful regional accent.

I get a little startled every time I hear the new voice—the tone is too harsh and the words are spoken too quickly. It sounds kind of like a nervous backseat driver who's just a little too worried about everything and who doesn't trust me. I much prefer the old voice, which was calmer and slower, and I didn't find its announcements anxiety-inducing.

The new voice is problematic enough for me that I will probably try to find alternatives for navigation unless and until this issue can be resolved.

There was NOTHING wrong with the ‘old’ Thomas. Please can we have him back? The ‘new’ Thomas is just not as good

I can't bear to use Waze with these new voices, they have a completely inappropriate tone for giving instructions. Please restore the old ones! These new ones also pronounce things incorrectly and don't enunciate well.

Yes, please Waze, bring back the original Thomas and Kate (my personal preference) UK voices.

Unlike the originals, which were calm, friendly, polite and generally very well pronounced, the replacements are curt, quite aggressive, stress inducing and littered with mispronunciations.

Having been a long time Waze user (10 years plus) and advocate, I’m afraid I’m now using Google or Apple Maps for most of my journeys. Such is my dislike of the new, “improved” Kate and Thomas voices.

A classic case of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it!”

Please at least allow us the option of downgrading back to the originals?