When AI recreates the female voice, it also rewrites who gets heard

Voice cloning technology platforms like ElevenLabs allow anyone to replicate a voice using just a few seconds of audio, for a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Synthetic Voices Shed Light on the Deep-Rooted Gender Biases Embedded in our Tech

At this point, there is no shortage of stories that have posed some form of the question, “Why are voice assistants always female?” GeorgePeters/Getty Images Imagine yourself in the cockpit of a ...
The New York Times

Has the Internet Changed How Women Sound?

Technology’s many automated female voices are nothing if not helpful. By Susan Dominus Artwork by Yehwan Song Susan Dominus is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the ...
Unite.AI

Modulate Introduces Ensemble Listening Models, Redefining How AI Understands Human Voice

Artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly, yet one area has remained consistently difficult: truly understanding human ...
TechSpot

New, very human-like AI voice model both excites and disturbs the internet

In context: Some of the implications of today's AI models are startling enough without adding a hyperrealistic human voice to them. We have seen several impressive examples over the last 10 years, but ...
National Geographic news

Why do so many virtual assistants have female voices?

Is your smartphone "sexist"? The rise of voice assistant technology—and longstanding gender disparities within the tech industry—means assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Cortana are under a microscope ...
The Conversation

When AI recreates the female voice, it also rewrites who gets heard

University of Westminster provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Voice cloning technology platforms like ElevenLabs allow anyone to replicate a voice using just a few seconds of audio, ...