I complained about this several months ago when Kate's voice began having phrases replaced by a MALE voice. The quantity of phrase replacement finally ended with all of English Kate being replaced by what sounds to me very much like a man. It's pronunciations are all wrong. "Spook Hill" is pronounced like in book. "Parsonage Road" is "Parsonarje" like the posher way of saying "garage". So many annoyances plus HE (you cannot tell me that's a woman's voice) has a horrid glottal stop and sometimes tells me to make a U-turn when it's a right turn at a roundabout! I've been complaining that lovely Kate has been trans-gendered into a man! Waze staff simply don't believe me and give no hoots. I was given instructions to reset the voice but it makes no difference. Uninstalled and re-installed and have tried this on three different Android phones now and all have the same male sounding voice for English Kate UK. I just can't listen to him/her/it anymore

Please, please, please, bring back the old Kate voice. The new voice is unpleasant and a bit unclear. She also can't pronounce certain words and highway names.

Waze, PLEASE listen and return the old Kate and Thomas. The new voices are atrocious and unlistenable

There have been umpteen updates since Kate changed and Waze are not taking any notice of the many complaints. The new voice is awful.

I can't stand the new, gruff Kate who can't pronounce Ts on some words. Why change from the pleasant, female Kate who spoke 'proper' English? Absolutely awful and I'll be trying Google Maps from now on

Sadly, it's clear that for whatever reason Waze chose to replace Kate (UK) with a rather unpleasant alternative, and however unhappy Waze users are about it, nothing is going to happen. I'm off to try out Apple Maps.

I have been using the new "Kate" for a couple of months or more and honestly, it really is poor. Poor pronunciation (it directed me to "Luffton" the other day - Loughton is pronounced "Lau-ton") and poor diction with attendant glottal stops - "Go Strai'on". Please bring back the old, English, female Kate. For those who like glottal stops etc., keep this new voice by all means, but please give us one just speaking plain English, and with a female tone as opposed to something so very androgynous.

Fully agree. The UK Kate voice is really unpleasant and at times not clear.
If you must insist to offer this voice could you also bring back the old one as a separate option?
I would also like to understand why the voice was changed in the first place, is there some information about the reasons, please?

The new Kate UK voice sounds like she's barking orders in a prison for wayward and disobedient badgers. Pease restore the delightfully relaxing old Kate so that my drive to work is peaceful. There was nothing wrong with the previous Kate, she was very easy to understand.

The new English (UK) (Kate) voice sounds like she’s been given a pair of *********. If I wanted a male sounding voice I can choose Thomas. Why butch up a user friendly female navigation voice?
There seems to be widespread dissatisfaction with the change, so until Waze/Google decide to listen to their users, I’ll use Apple Maps. It might lack some of the functionality of Waze, but their female voice makes for a far better journey experience.

I agree. The new UK Kate voice is terrible. She does not pronounce words correctly and misses the end off of words, like she is speaking in slang. It is awful. Please re-instate the old voices. The new ones are grating and difficult to drive with. PLEASE LISTEN!!!

The most recent versions of UK Kate and Thomas are abrupt, low pitch, really hard to be heard. I am very anxious whenever I need to navigate to new places. Regrettably I will need to switch to Google maps for navigation if Waze doesn’t make any changes.

Please can you restore the old gentler Kate voice? The new voice is jarring and not natural. You can keep it as another name maybe. Also, the other other U.K. voices don’t have street names. Please add those. Thank you

Please reinstate the voice of English UK Kate. If you want to introduce a new voice then that's fine, but give it a new name so users can decide which they prefer. Simply replacing a voice with the same name is unacceptable.

Bring back the old Kate... The mispronunciations are god awful. Please fix ASAP.

New Kate voice has an irritating accent. Please can we have the old Kate (UK) back

New English Kate voice is awful - unnatural low tone, stroppy delivery and loaded with MISPRONUNCIATIONS. Bring back the previous Kate version which was perfect. Why change things that don't need fixing?

The new UK voice Kate is simply awful. Her pronunciation is bad and she seems to be unable to say “straight” instead she says “Stray”.
Please restore the old voice, it was so much easier to listen to.

Or at least sort out the poor place name pronunciation. Aldermaston was incomprehensible when I drove near by 🤬. Then dropping the “t” on straight on is a deal breaker. At least the Thomas pronounces straight correctly.

Please reinstate Kate(UK)! The replacement voice is blunt and agressive