In May, the United Nations released a troubling report, arguing that female-sounding voices for AI assistants such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa perpetuate gender biases and encourage users to be ...

Voice assistants have historically been female. From Siri and Alexa to Cortana and the Google Assistant, most computerized versions of administrative assistants launched with a female voice and, in ...

Alexa, Siri, Cortana: Tech voice assistants are undoubtedly now parts of our everyday life - and that’s nothing new. Powered by artificial intelligence, we say their names countless times a day ...