Is Siri sexist? UN cautions against biased voice assistants (barf alert)

Yahoo! Politics / AP ^ | 5/22/19 | AP

[Swordmaker]

Hahaha. These people are pathetic.

My girlfriend Kathy and I found there was lack in the 2014 update to the ICD-10 handbook of International diagnostic codes used by all doctors and insurance companies to bill for medical conditions. They missed some very important diagnoses. So we created this very important one for the next addenda. Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the next IDC-10 addenda:

321.0 SPLAT Progressive/Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (PLCD) or Progressive/Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (PLABA): The complete loss of rationality, cognition, and cerebration due to indiscriminately keeping one's mind so far open that the brain falls out. First and subsequent encounters.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There's nothing that bunch of gasbags won't chime in on.

My Mac has so many voices to choose from there's no way I can listen to them all:

English U.S. Female

• Agnes
• Allison
• Ava
• Kathy
• Princess
• Samantha
• Susan
• Vicki Victoria

English U.S. Male

• Alex
• Bruce
• Fred
• Junior
• Ralph
• Tom

English U.S. Novelty

• Albert
• Bad News
• Bahh
• Bells
• Boing
• Bubbles
• Cellos
• Deranged
• Good News
• Hysterical
• Pipe Organ
• Trinoids
• Whisper
• Zarvox

Then there are about another four dozen international voices. I wonder if "Ting-Ting" is a relative of Sum Ting Wong?

[novemberslady]

siri- alexa- cortana ... go fetch...

of course Samsung has a metrosexual button named bixby that a person can't change for something more useful...

[Richard Kimball]

I got the Siri Australian female voice. I was hoping it would sound like Sandy from Grease, but she’s older and I think she’s gained weight.

[big'ol_freeper]

RE: Siri is not a person. Siri is a simulation. If it were named Jack, and had a voice with a lower frequency, they would say it represented the patriarchy and male dominance.

Bingo

[Texas resident]

Ok. I don’t have a listening device, but thought it would be fun to pick a voice. Like Humphrey Bogart, Jerry Clower or Larry the Cable guy.

get er done!!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I wonder what Siri would say if I asked her to make me a sammich?

US out of UN! UN out of US!

DANG!

[roadcat]

Siri can do male voices also. Maybe they need to add more choices, like Greg Gutfeld of The Five. Imagine the responses when you try to insult Siri or ask for a joke.

[Chode]

what’s next, whining about female aircraft voice warning systems???

[SunkenCiv]

The prospects dim for continued residuals from US-produced re-runs.

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[martin_fierro]

Male- and Female-voiced SIRI are equally incompetent.

[RonnG]

if I want to know the time, all I need to do is say ‘What time is it’ I guess I just feel strange calling a bunch of plastic and other junk by name