Re:The use of disembodied female-sounding voices in service ...
by toyg on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:17AM
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> British Siri was always a male voice.
Does it? I've had it set to a female voice since, uhm, forever...?
I am absolutely guilty of sexism towards my AI assistants, but it's in a congratulatory way. On Google Home, I have an issue whereby it often thinks I'm speaking Italian when I'm not, hence doing the wrong thing. I set the Italian responder to be male (like I am), and the English one to female; so when I hear a male response I think "stupid man is stupid", repeat the command more clearly, and get a "competent female" voice who will do the right thing.
Siri does not have this sort of granularity, you have to switch languages manually - which makes it less flexible but, I guess, slightly more precise (although it's still just Bad pretty often).
Does it? I've had it set to a female voice since, uhm, forever...?
I am absolutely guilty of sexism towards my AI assistants, but it's in a congratulatory way. On Google Home, I have an issue whereby it often thinks I'm speaking Italian when I'm not, hence doing the wrong thing. I set the Italian responder to be male (like I am), and the English one to female; so when I hear a male response I think "stupid man is stupid", repeat the command more clearly, and get a "competent female" voice who will do the right thing.
Siri does not have this sort of granularity, you have to switch languages manually - which makes it less flexible but, I guess, slightly more precise (although it's still just Bad pretty often).