I have never really thought about this whole topic of why computer voices are mostly female until read this actricle. And once I began to think about it, I wonder how I have never noticed this before? I can't even think of one piece of technology that has a male voice, but I don't have to use or hear thee technologies often.
The only piece of technology that I own that has a voice is a GPS and it is a female. Now hearning this female voice all the time, It's really starting to get annoying. I kind of wish I had male voice to switch things up a bit. It might be that the female voice in technology is more high pitched and stands out more. (referenced in te article)
It's not the fact that I'm just annoyed at the female voice in general, It's just that we all need a little variety sometime. And hearing the same robotic female voice every day has to get old. And these being designed to have a higher pitched voice to get attention is probably one of the factors of annoyance.
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