Dear fellow humans with naturally soft voices, I would like to start off with a story. I was standing on my metal chair. My fingers dug into the paper grocery bag that covered my health textbook. I ...

Technology’s many automated female voices are nothing if not helpful. By Susan Dominus Artwork by Yehwan Song Susan Dominus is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the ...

Voice cloning technology platforms like ElevenLabs allow anyone to replicate a voice using just a few seconds of audio, for a small fee. These technologies are reshaping cultural and artistic ...

At this point, there is no shortage of stories that have posed some form of the question, “Why are voice assistants always female?” GeorgePeters/Getty Images Imagine yourself in the cockpit of a ...

Is your smartphone "sexist"? The rise of voice assistant technology—and longstanding gender disparities within the tech industry—means assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Cortana are under a microscope ...

As a researcher at AT&T, she helped lay the groundwork for modern digital assistants like Siri and Alexa. By Cade Metz Ann Syrdal, a psychologist and computer science researcher who helped develop ...