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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by iampims on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:30AM (#14209175)
Why does every assistant has to have a woman's name?

Is it really that hard to come up with a name?

Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by berberous on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:39AM (#14209213)
Bixby, Siri, Cortana and "OK Google" are women's names? The only one with a woman's name that I can think of is Alexa. Granted they all have a woman's voice, but doesnt seem like that was your point.
Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by dagw on Thursday April 27, 2017 @03:02AM (#14209731)
Siri is absolutely a fairly common Nordic woman's name, I know several people with that name.
Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by aninhumer on Thursday April 27, 2017 @07:07AM (#14210605)
And Cortana was named after a female video game character.
Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by criddell on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:14AM (#14210866)
They voices are male in some other countries. In the UK, for example, Siri is voiced by Jon Briggs.
Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by phobius on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:58AM (#14209710)
in fairness, "Cortana" and "Siri" both sound pretty effeminate to me (and speakers of romance languages)
Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by reustle on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:48AM (#14209245)
A vast majority of personal assistants are female, that could be part of the reason