When Google first launched the voice assistant, it was actually trying to use the voice of men, and choosing women was actually helpless.
Editor’s note: This article from the “love child norm”, the author: Lee extraordinary.
A few days ago, the Guardian revealed a Speech Assistant Siri’s internal file, which shows that Apple has developed a series of ethics for Siri to avoid Siri’s gender bias in answering questions.
For a long time, the voice assistants of technology companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft all defaulted to female voices, and the United Nations was at a report states that this is because these software designs are dominated by men, which in turn strengthens the spread of gender bias.
Brant Ward, Google’s recent product manager for Text-to-Speech (TTS), When interviewed, he gave a different answer. He said that when Google first launched the voice assistant, it actually wanted to use men. The voice, the choice of women is actually helpless.
Google originally wanted to introduce a voice assistant that supports both male and female voices, but the traditional TTS system is difficult to do because the training data received by the system is female and the female voice is better.
Why does Google’s TTS system use more women than men in training samples, and Brant Ward says that because of the better tone of the female voice, it’s easier to understand for the system at the time.