TikTok has a new female text-to-voice voice in its app. The new voice comes after an actor sued TikTok's parent company, claiming her voice was being used without her permission. It's not clear if the ...
Last year, a study by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) argued that voice assistants like Google’s perpetuate “harmful gender bias” and suggests women should ...
Voice assistants have historically been female. From Siri and Alexa to Cortana and the Google Assistant, most computerized versions of administrative assistants launched with a female voice and, in ...
Artificial intelligence voice assistants with female voices reinforce existing gender biases, according to a new United Nations’ report. The new report from UNESCO, entitled “I’d Blush If I Could,” ...
A typical after-work scene at my house goes something like this. “Alexa,” I say. She chimes, then lights up. “Play the new Jenny Lewis album.” “Playing Jerry Lee Lewis Essentials from Apple Music.” ...
With the large number of women running for President this year, the word “shrill” is enjoying a resurgence in the national vocabulary, following its previous heyday, as an insult hurled at Hillary ...
One of the main benefits of Google Maps, Waze, Apple Maps, and the other navigation apps on Android and iPhone is that you can get turn-by-turn voice directions, meaning that they can assist you as ...
Why do most virtual assistants that are powered by artificial intelligence — like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa system — by default have female names, female voices and often a submissive or even ...