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Siri defaulted to female in some countries, male in others. Now everyone gets to choose Jarvis or Friday!
— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) March 31, 2021
“Apple is adding two new voices to Siri’s English offerings, and eliminating the default ‘female voice’ selection in the latest beta version of iOS”https://t.co/g33eCO9x3a pic.twitter.com/U8dRqHxOY6
Apple adds two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female voice in the latest version of iOS, now in beta. This is huge and overdue for voice assistants. The new voices sound great too. https://t.co/1Oa7i2cqZL
— Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) March 31, 2021
“This means that every person setting up Siri will choose a voice for themselves and it will no longer default to the voice assistant being female, a topic that has come up quite a bit with regards to bias in voice interfaces over the past few years.” https://t.co/9PZc2YGmjv
— Cody Sigel Combs (@CodyCombsNEWS) March 31, 2021
I’m so excited about these changes!
— Connor Graham (@connor_g) March 31, 2021
- Siri no longer has a default female voice—users must pick a voice when they set up Siri
- Voices are no longer identified by gender at all
- The new voices sound awesome and represent people that aren’t represented by Siri’s existing voices https://t.co/jXGI026wmo
If you have not been using the Australian man voice as your digital servant I suggest fixing that right now https://t.co/j7uYl662z3
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) March 31, 2021
We’ve updated our story on the iOS 14.5 Siri changes with a quick video showing the new voices https://t.co/clraZkBhJm
— Chance Miller (@ChanceHMiller) March 31, 2021
You will now need to chose the Siri voice during setup. iOS 14.5: Siri no longer defaults to a female voice, two new choices added https://t.co/AVAetY7Oev via @ChanceHMiller
— Michael Kukielka ? (@DetroitBORG) March 31, 2021
The folks over at @9to5mac have a short video toggling between the new Siri voices arriving in iOS 14.5 for those of us not #BetaBrave enough.
— Basic Apple Guy (@BasicAppleGuy) March 31, 2021
I like Voice 3… he seems like someone a lot cooler than me, but who still likes hanging & helping me out.https://t.co/omQQAuNJZD