Finally: Siri is Getting a "Gender Neutral" Voice Option

Clownworld.

It's not just that we now need our robots to be "trans" too.

It's also that we can't have our robots having female voices, because that's... sexist. That teaches our stupid sexist brains that women are servants and like playing music for us and scheduling our workouts for us.

Apple's virtual assistant Siri is getting a new voice that sounds more gender-neutral, according to a report.

The new Siri voice, which is being tested as part of the beta version of iOS 15.4 released on Tuesday, was recorded "by a member of the LGBTQ+ community," Apple told told Axios.

The new voice -- referred to simply as "Voice 5" in the iOS beta -- sounds less explicitly male or female than previous English-speaking options, according to videos posted online.

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The move came after a report from a United Nations agency argued that defaulting to female-sounding virtual assistants "carries a risk of spreading problematic gender stereotypes and regularizing one-sided, command-based verbal exchanges with women."

Below, this... fellow claims he found a clip of Siri's new "trans" voice.

It sound terrible.

Apple just launched a new gender neutral voice option for siri pic.twitter.com/L96BtRAPiv

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 24, 2022

Ryan Long and Danny Polushuk discussed this UN Report on the crushing need for gender parity in Robot Voices in a Boyscast.

The report was like most feminists' complaints: Stupid, frivolous, and with a childlike detachment from anything resembling the mathematical, the logical, or the real.

No offense!

posted by Ace at 05:45 PM

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