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Stop Giving Digital Assistants Female Voices

• 27182818284 10y ago
  A friend of mine is a nanny. One day when Siri didn't know the answer to something, one of the little boys said, "Use the guy Siri he is smarter." I think there is also very much the case to not use the male voice.
  • qbrass 10y ago
    It's the British accent.
• greyhound40 10y ago
  This may be the dumbest thing I have read all day and I purposely went through my spam folder today looking for a lost email. I don't know anyone that associates an AI assistants female voice with subservience. To be honest I keep Siri using a female voice because I find it more calming when interacting with my phone.
• stephenr 10y ago
  I have never used any of the options but Siri, so I can't comment about those, but just like the text-to-speech engine in macOS since at least System 7, the voice of Siri is configurable. Of the things to fucking worry about, this should be just above "I think Siri is stalking me"