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22 May 19, 02:40 PM |
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Perhaps if you could choose a Disney character voice, everyone would be happy 😂
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22 May 19, 02:43 PM |
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Kids turned mine into Pikachu, that was annoying. They also turned on a sarcastic version. Oh, how I laughed, not.
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22 May 19, 02:46 PM |
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22 May 19, 04:23 PM |
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Also, why do they have to change the name? It could still be called Alexa but have a man's voice (or Pikachu or whatever). Seems a bit presumptuous assuming that only women can be called Alexa.
Some of the news reports about this are a bit eye-opening... "Beyond engaging and sometimes even thanking users for sexual harassment..." People are sexually harassing their devices? How does that work? What next? People being accused of sexually harassing their cars when they shout "F*** me!" if it won't start in the morning? Or when running their hands across the bonnet?
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22 May 19, 06:15 PM |
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“Right, I’m going to give you a damn good thrashing!”
“Thank you Mr Fawlty, I rather enjoyed that.” Interestingly Siri in the UK is male by default.
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22 May 19, 06:22 PM |
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Yes it is, it sounds odd on films when Siri is female
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22 May 19, 07:03 PM |
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Varies here. Currently female and Aussie. Really doesn't matter.
I'd change it to Scooby Doo, if that was an option. ...But the novelty would probably wear off quickly! P.S. Making an issue of Alexa/Siri in this way detracts from and undermines genuine issues of bias/stereotyping, doesn't it?!
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23 May 19, 11:19 AM |
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You can change the wake up word to somthing other than Alexa so that this doesn't happen
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23 May 19, 11:55 AM |
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23 May 19, 12:01 PM |
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Actually there is a genderless/gender fluid AI voice out there. One day all our AI products will likely use it.
wired/story/the-gend...eds-right-now/
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