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The trend of the large assistants (Google Home, Alexa, Cortana) to all be female-voiced by default is pretty awful. Recently I tried to change the settings on a
by joppy 8y ago
The trend of the large assistants (Google Home, Alexa, Cortana) to all be female-voiced by default is pretty awful. Recently I tried to change the settings on an Alexa to try to get it to answer in a male voice, but I don't think it's possible.
- mkl 8y agoI think the explanation is more practical and less nefarious than you are implying: female voices are often easier to hear and understand, especially with background noise. Maybe it's different for other people, but that's certainly the case for me, in movies, lectures, radio, and synthesised voices.