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Sounds female, usually, but clearly wavers between male and female. Primarily though it sounds unpleasant to me. Not a fan.
by b_tterc_p 8y ago
Sounds female, usually, but clearly wavers between male and female. Primarily though it sounds unpleasant to me. Not a fan.
- Yver 8y agoThis is [uncanny valley][1] applied to voice. They intentionally made a voice that listeners can't quite identify, and it ends up feeling unnatural. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
- dmix 8y agoThis view of the future seems very bland and uninteresting. I thought the idea is to make gender a flexible thing, for example you can experiment with being a female or whatever gender profile, based on whatever you feel comfortable with. Not to reduce the worlds gender representations (in business, culture, etc) into a homogeneous middle ground? Expanding what's possible in terms of personal expression rather than (further) restricting it. So I'm very confused why this exists other than as an interesting technical project?
- daenz 8y agoI had the same experience. I hope this isn't going to spin off more academic work about why our brains are hard-wired to be sexist by continually and automatically trying to perceive the gender of speaker based on their speech.
- wccrawford 8y agoI agree. But most of the time it just sounded like the typical deep female computer voice that scifi has used for decades.