Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74 (Published 2020)
As a researcher at AT&T, she helped lay the groundwork for modern digital assistants like Siri and Alexa.
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Why computer voices are mostly female | CNN Business
To most owners of the new iPhone, the voice-activated feature called Siri is more than a virtual "assistant."
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Read these very interesting stories. While we are witnessing how overwhelming the amount of female voice speech synthesis products (yes, I'm counting both speaking and singing ones, and produced professionally/commercially) and they are successful because we are just more attracted to female voice, it was the opposite for decades since the speech synthesis technology was discovered.