diff --git a/homeassistant/components/google_cloud/tts.py b/homeassistant/components/google_cloud/tts.py
index 4f0c2c20914..bc2246f7814 100644
--- a/homeassistant/components/google_cloud/tts.py
+++ b/homeassistant/components/google_cloud/tts.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ DEFAULT_GENDER = 'NEUTRAL'
 VOICE_REGEX = r'[a-z]{2}-[A-Z]{2}-(Standard|Wavenet)-[A-Z]|'
 DEFAULT_VOICE = ''
 
-DEFAULT_ENCODING = 'OGG_OPUS'
+DEFAULT_ENCODING = 'MP3'
 
 MIN_SPEED = 0.25
 MAX_SPEED = 4.0