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Female Computer Voices
"One answer may lie in biology. Scientific studies have shown that people generally find women's voices more pleasing than men's. 'It's much easier to find a female voice that everyone likes than a male voice that everyone likes,' said Stanford University Professor Clifford Nass, author of 'The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships. 'It's a well-established phenomenon that the human brain is developed to like female voices.'
One notable exception has been Germany, where BMW was forced to recall a female-voiced navigation system on its 5 Series cars in the late 1990s after being flooded with calls from German men saying they refused to take directions from a woman. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on why the company gave Siri a female voice in the U.S. Nor would she say why Siri speaks like a man in the UK, where iPhone 4S owners have swarmed online forums to request a female voice instead." |
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10-23-2011, 12:27 PM
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Just heard this story yesterday:
It's A Girl! The New iPhone Speaks : NPR
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An elevator at the Pittsburgh Children's Hospital, is female, she announces the floor then the direction......................3, going down.............yeah I like that elevator.
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10-23-2011, 01:53 PM
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The voice for my GPS is female but it is not really a computer voice. It is a human that spent a lot of time in a recording studio.
I call her bichen Betty.
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10-23-2011, 02:14 PM
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I put my GPS on a french female. I have no idea where I'm going but get a chubby driving & don't care.
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10-23-2011, 04:22 PM
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Reminds me of the movie Andromeda Strain from the 70's, where Dr. Hall thinks the automated voice is sexy and is told:
"The voice belongs to Miss Gladys Stevens who is 63 years old. She lives in Omaha and makes her living taping messages for voice-reminder systems."
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We dubbed her "Black Lung Betty." angela
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from what I have seen of German women it is no wonder that German men would like one area of their lives they don't have to take orders from...
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 A friend calls his the same thing!Won't leave home without her, ah, er...it. Les
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10-24-2011, 02:20 AM
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A buddy of mine bought a brand new Datsun 280Zx. It had a female voice to say "your door is ajar" and a few other things. His wife was was so jealous he had to take it to the dealer to have a man's voice replace the female voice.
He still has that car. Under 20,000 miles and looks like it rolled off the dealer lot last week.
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I have downloaded a female voice with a French accent (not the language itself) for my GPS - that is so awesome!
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Our elevator here at work has a female voice. I tried setting my GPS to a female voice but found the male voice more understandable. GPS has since been absconded by wife and step daughter... good riddance... I hate the thing!
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I did the female Aussie accent download. Always a happy ending when I use my GPS!
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funny thing is the female voice on my GPS still gets lost all the time.
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10-24-2011, 09:19 AM
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These days how does one tell if a voice is male or female? Wouldn't that be profiling?
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