2025/05/05

Susan Dominus Sounds off on Technology’s Gendered Voice

“The voice of novel technological communication has been, almost from the beginning, a female voice, which is to say the voice of a helper, a perfect helper, pleasant, unflappable, immune to insults, come-ons and bossiness.”
– Journalist Susan Dominus, underscoring the prominence of female voices in AI assistants and apps—from Siri and Alexa to Jessie, a text-to-speech model used widely on TikTok.
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