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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 small fee. These technologies are reshaping cultural and artistic ...
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 ...
The Verge

Apple won’t give Siri a female-sounding voice by default anymore

iPhone and iPad owners will now pick a voice when setting up their device iPhone and iPad owners will now pick a voice when setting up their device is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge ...
ZDNet

OpenAI's Voice Engine can clone a voice from a 15-second clip. Listen for yourself

Since releasing ChatGPT and ushering in the generative AI era, OpenAI has stayed ahead of the curve with cutting-edge AI technology such as Sora, its impressive text-to-video generator. On Friday, the ...
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 ...