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 ...
Forbes

Fixing AI’s Gender Bias Isn’t Just Ethical—It’s Good Business

AI systems like ChatGPT amplify gender biases. Studies show LLMs use stereotypical adjectives for men and women, reflecting biases in training data. Female-default voices for digital assistants ...
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 ...
Cosmopolitan

"AI voice assistants are often women: Here's why it's a problem"

Alexa, Siri, Cortana: Tech voice assistants are undoubtedly now parts of our everyday life - and that’s nothing new. Powered by artificial intelligence, we say their names countless times a day ...
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 ...