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regarding "should have called it Bezos", I think there's some subconscious sexism in home assistants that they're all female voices. We like thinking of our Goo
by PascLeRasc 8y ago
regarding "should have called it Bezos", I think there's some subconscious sexism in home assistants that they're all female voices. We like thinking of our Google Home or Alexa as a secretary/homemaker, which have traditionally been female roles.
- belorn 8y agoIt is sexist that in apple, microsoft and googles user tests, both women and men prefer the female voice over the male voice. There is also a lot of sexis found by the Stanford University study which revealed that preferences for male or female voices depend on the subject matter. Both men and women prefer a woman voice when talking about people and how things relate to each other, but prefer a male voice for bare facts about objects. Additional there is also some racism in there as some nationalities go against this preference in user tests, leading to apple to have male as the default home assistants if you are British, French, Dutch or Arabic.