sphere wrote:
Funny you mentioned that, I saw a twitter post about the female assistant voice and itās been circling my cranium ever since.
At first I thought, hmm, never thought of it. It does seem to reaffirm the patriarchal workplace hierarchy, but I think Iāve landed on the truth that female voices are just generally more pleasing to the ear than male voices. At least, coming from my male perspective. But I think women find attractive women attractive more so than do men with attractive menāitās a comfort level on average thing more so than a harmful negative gender stereotype issue, in my view.
That said, if I could change my Google assistant voice to Joe Pesci or Jeff Goldblum Iād to it in a heartbeat.
And Siriās default voice triggers me. Should it really take four full seconds after being summoned to respond with a āā¦yeah?ā then have not a clue as to what your asking? Sheās like the hot girl of AI who always got by on looks and clearly in over her head.
Don't know about more pleasing to the ear (I think that depends much more on the individual than on the gender), but to my ear the higher pitch of female voices makes for clearer understanding in noisy(-ish) surroundings.
Some yeras ago the public transport authority in my town held a competition and let the customers vote on who should voice the automated announcements in the city busses. The majority voted for one of the male options. Deep voice, very pleasant to listen to, but sometimes you can really not make out what is being said over the sound of the motor, people chatting etc.