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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by selkin on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @05:44PM (#45120715)
That you consider it sex (rather than gender), is exactly why there’s a preference for female coded voices. Consider where we do hear male recorded voices used as default.
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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by recursive on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @05:57PM (#45120820)
Overloaded term. It was a reference to the parent's reference.

> satisfying the sexual desires of

So, "sex" as a reference to "sexual desires". In English, it just so happens that "sex" has other meanings, but those weren't in play at the time.

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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by pylotlight on Thursday September 04, 2025 @01:00AM (#45123747)
woosh
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Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speec... by akimbostrawman on Thursday September 04, 2025 @02:54AM (#45124345)
How the hell would you determine someone's self assigned social gender based on there voice which is a result of there physical sex.
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