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So it masks gender by making everyone sound "like a dude" according to the videos. That's not masking gender. Make everyone sound like a robot and the blog post
by anon2016 10y ago
So it masks gender by making everyone sound "like a dude" according to the videos. That's not masking gender. Make everyone sound like a robot and the blog post title will be more accurate.
- StavrosK 10y agoYeah, I cringed when they said they thought of "giving all females a bane mask". How does that do anything? Anyone getting a person wearing a bane mask would automatically realize they were female.
- vonmoltke 10y agoThe point of the experiment was for the interviewer to think the interviewer was a particular gender to see if they as it based on that impression. Making everyone sound like a robot does not accomplish that goal, so I don't see how it makes the title more accurate.
- StavrosK 10y agoIt makes everyone sound the same. Changing only women's voices is a tell-tale sign. If you get a guy who sounds "computery", or "off", it's a girl.
- lotharbot 10y agoThey didn't only change women's voices. They also changed some men to sound like women. And they made some voices sound processed without pitch changes.
- sliverstorm 10y agoThat could be a fun thing to break out at a party. I wonder what me sounding like a woman, sounds like.
- dogma1138 10y agoDid you read the article? They changed both males and females, and had 2 control groups (one that was modulated without gender change, and 1 that was unmodulated). This is by far one of the best ways to do it.
- lotharbot 10y agoThe text of the article clarifies -- they made some women sound processed-male, some men sound processed-female, some sound processed without a gender shift, and some were unprocessed. So if you got a processed-sounding voice, you had no way to know the gender of the person you were talking to.