big corporate AIs tend female. why? alexa, siri, cortana. not sure if m has a gender, and google's doesn't try for humanness?
@joshu when I worked at http://robotic.media.mit.edu/ the voices were always female. Selection made on the basis of research showing ppl prefer
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@joshu listening to, also more amenable to accepting info from the female voices (paraphrase of research read long-ago) -
@joshu I think it was this http://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/crowelletal09iros.pdf … (and in particular, that men respond differently to diff gender voices)
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