No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє @lemmy.sdf.org 11 mo. ago

Does anyone use a non-default voice for the Google Assistant? (Same for Siri, Alexa etc.)

Granted I'm not someone who uses AI assistants a lot, but I've never seen anyone use any other voices than the default one (Red). There are 10 voices for Google Assistant, apparently. Do you or someone you know use them?

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I switched my Android assistant to a man's voice. A woman serving as my digital assistant has always felt mildly sexist to me.
- That's fair, I guess. In popular media, and also IRL, assistants are almost always women. There's some sort of ingrained sexism in it.
  
  "There are an overwhelming number of studies that suggest humans prefer the sound of a female voice, and some even theorize our preference for female voices begins when we are fetuses, as these sounds would soothe and calm us in the womb."

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