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Apple makes a big change to new iPhones – 7NEWS.com.au
It comes after warnings women could be perceived as ‘obliging, docile and eager-to-please helpers, available at the touch of a button’.
Apples Siri will soon stop defaulting to a female-sounding voice.
The company said on Wednesday that its mobile devices will ask users to pick from a range of voices when they set up the virtual assistant.
Apple currently allows users to pick between a male and female voice as well as six different accents including American, British, Indian and Irish, but defaults to a female voice for US devices. (In some countries, such as the UK, Siri defaults to a male voice.)
Apple also said it will add two…
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