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Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice by ihuman on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:48PM (#19506998)
> A computer assistant doesn't have a gender so why should it represent itself as male or female

A human has to be in the recording booth to create the vocal library. Also you can change the Siri voice to not only be Male, but also have a different accent.

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Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice by uryga on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:18PM (#19507256)
> A human has to be in the recording booth to create the vocal library.

do they? i mean, we're not great at synthesizing natural-sounding voices yet, but that's a technical challenge – not something inherent to the problem.

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Re:Meet Q, a Genderless Voice by int_19h on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:23PM (#19507302)
What would make it "natural-sounding", though? What if that happens to include gender stereotypes?

I don't think it's possible to assert that it's purely a technical challenge before we understand the goal clearly, beyond "I'll know it when I hear it".

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