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Not all. Siri is a gender-neutral name. It defaults to a female voice, but you could imagine a male named Siri as well.

• jdietrich 7y ago
  In the UK (and France, IIRC), Siri launched with a male voice only. The poor support for women's issues in many apps (rape crisis centres in virtual assistants, period tracking in Apple Health etc) do represent serious failures in product development, but I suspect that the voice gender issue is a bit of a double-bind. If a male voice was the default in the US, I expect we'd be seeing thinkpieces about how Siri was reinforcing patriarchal stereotypes about men being authoritative.
  • nfoz 7y ago
    Literally, a mansplaining bot. Nice!
  • sgt101 7y ago
    I know that Siri has a male voice in the UK now, but I remember when it launched it was female.
• nfoz 7y ago
  In many social contexts it would be seen as weird to have changed from the voice's default (perceived) gender. The default is the only thing that matters really.