Siri defaulted to female in some countries, male in others. Now everyone gets to choose Jarvis or Friday!

“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

— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) March 31, 2021

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!
- 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

— Connor Graham (@connor_g) March 31, 2021

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.

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

— Basic Apple Guy (@BasicAppleGuy) March 31, 2021