I'm tired of ordering Alexa and Siri around — we need male virtual assistants

The_Greatest_Failure · 2018-05-27T21:21:39+00:00

They're designed that way because in focus tests they found people prefer female voices.

DigitalisEdible · 2018-05-28T01:03:28+00:00

You just know that if virtual assistants were all male voices they’d be complaining about lack of female representation.

2018-05-27T23:42:41+00:00

I remember having the option to give Siri a male voice.

User-31f64a4e · 2018-05-28T03:59:05+00:00

If it was male, too many soy-boys would become intimidated and afraid of their phones.
More importantly,

feminists would say that the mansplaining from a virtual assistant conditions people to think men have all the answers.

oshout · 2018-05-28T00:56:19+00:00

Google has several voices and inflections, including men. As does Siri, which also includes accents.

thrway_1000 · 2018-05-28T01:44:03+00:00

Are these people stupid? Oh wait, yes, yes they are.

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Luke050715 · 2018-05-28T02:12:17+00:00

I don't know about Alexa, but Siri has genders and accents as an option.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2018-05-28T13:26:04+00:00

Replace with male voices and cue the women living alone claiming it makes them feel unsafe.

Sasha_ · 2018-05-28T01:30:02+00:00

I've got Alexa and a female voice really suits here because she gets about 40% of everything wrong.

Insanity_Pills · 2018-05-27T23:27:20+00:00

This is a silly topic and kinda draws away from the real issues that face men, I'm of the opinion that its almost impossible for a company or product to be ideological truly, they simply wanna make money and I guess that female virtual assistants make more money. Sexist products exist sure, but the motive behind them is generally to make money. And this one is fairly harmless as well.

fengpi · 2018-05-28T04:33:51+00:00

So she wants a cringing, cowering, groveling kind of lickspittle male character to order around.

boringcarpets · 2018-05-28T09:58:26+00:00

Years ago, before smart phones, sat navs had male voices by default but could be changed, later on Google was the same, market research found that people preferred female voices now they're default. There is no conspiracy. But feminists will never be happy

Title	I'm tired of ordering Alexa and Siri around — we need male virtual assistants
Author	furchfur
Upvotes	2
Comments	21
Date	May 27, 2018 9:20 PM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/8mkuf2/im_tired_of_ordering_alexa_and_siri_around_we/
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feminists would say that the mansplaining from a virtual assistant conditions people to think men have all the answers.