Apple’s decision to make Siri’s voice female by default in the US and many other countries reinforces gender bias, claims a new United Nations report. The same complaint is levelled at Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana.
The problem with this, says the report, is that it ‘reflects and reinforces’ the idea that assistants – acting in a support role – are female …
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