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iOS 14.5 Adds New Siri Voices, No Longer Defaults to Female
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There’s a lot of transphobic people in these comments
What is a white sounding voice versus another race’s voice?
Good job Apple you have fetishized different accents!
Should had just stuck with robosexual voices
Should had just stuck with robosexual voices
If I asked a simple question, and instead of Siri telling me "I can't connect on the server" or "Here's what I found on the web," it was Steve Jobs' voice yelling at Siri for being ****, I think that's all the improvement to Siri I'd need.
not at all, the only critique i've ever had about siri voices is that i never felt like they were casual and expressive like competitors options, so i do like that there's a little more expressiveness to a couple of the voices. do i care if they're labeled by gender in the settings panel i will look at once and never go back to except on rare occasion? no. but apparently some of you are pretty worked up about it.
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Jesus. Apple is losing it. I can’t believe they removed the genders.
While I respect apple for their products and privacy, whomever is running social justice initiatives at apple has lost there minds. And I thought the squirt gun emoji was comical.
Is there something wrong with social justice?
Because a minority of a minority are messed up. Therefore, we all need to be messed up to please them.
I’m not transphobic. I couldn’t care less about what someone wants to transition to. Good for them.
What I dislike is the pathetic actually ill minded view of the tiny population that gets offended when they see a male or female gender listed. If you have a logical mind, you will see that the vast vast majority of the human race has to give up (little bit by little bit) their title of male or female so as not to offend someone. It’s incredibly hypocritical.
Good UI design and actually being open to equality, would list masculine voices, feminine voices, neutral voices (which none of the current ones are, as they fall into one of the above two categories). And the novelty voices e.g. robotic, fictional characters, sci-fi etc.
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I know... It's some sort of creole language . I was just trying to be funny... ?
These crybaby snowflakes in this thread who are acting like their lives have been ruined because it now says 'voice' instead of male or female are making me laugh so much. Imagine how empty your life must to be so upset about something so unimportant 😂
The irony is it’s the “snowflakes” that are pushing this crap to begin with. You do realise that right? If it’s so unimportant then why are Apple making these changes? Derpy derp.
You can say exactly the same about the converse point. Imagine being so triggered by something saying male and female that the creator has to change it to something ambiguous. "Imagine how empty your life must to be so upset about something so unimportant 😂"
This isn't social justice. You as a person can identify however you'd like but that doesn't mean that the people (robots?) speaking to you have to do the same.
"Remove the white sounding voices" sounds like a pretty bigoted thing to say. Do all white people sound the same because they're white? Do all black people sound the same because they're black? Of course not. It depends on their heritage, where they live, what they've been exposed to, etc.
Ridiculous.
I didn't ask if this is social justice. The commenter claimed it was and I asked if there was anything wrong with social justice.
Question though: are you saying robots should be assigned a specific male/female gender? Not really sure I understand your take here.
This is literally not true. Sounds like hysteria to me.
Until today there were male and female Siri voices. People understood what that meant when they selected one or the other. Just because the person selecting the option may identify as non-binary doesn’t mean that the list they select from can’t be male and female. You can’t paper over reality because it might make someone upset to face it.
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Until one very particular day women couldn't vote, black people couldn't sit at the front of the bus, email didn't exist, you didn't exist. This is not an argument for thins staying the way they were and it is not papering over reality to say that you were born and should continue to live in this world.
You know what? I give up, you are right. I AM offended that male, female, mom, dad, his, hers, he, she can no longer be used because some folks decide those words should no longer be used and are somehow offended by them. Get over yourselves folks. There I said it.
(OK so really I don't care what Apple does but I do think its stupid as F***.)
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