{"id":8845,"date":"2012-03-13T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=8845"},"modified":"2012-03-12T13:31:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T17:31:34","slug":"siri-by-gender-and-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/03\/13\/siri-by-gender-and-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Siri by Gender and Language"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post<\/a>, I wrote about the intersections of gender, technology, and economy using Apple’s “personal assistant” Siri as an example. With the recent release of the Japanese version of Siri, I thought I would provide an update on the available languages and their use of a default masculine or feminine voice.
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*Interestingly, German navigation devices that used female voices were recalled because men did not want to take directions from a woman. I guess they are fine with giving directions to a woman...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In an earlier post, I wrote about the intersections of gender, technology, and economy using Apple’s “personal assistant” Siri as an example. With the recent release of the Japanese version of Siri, I thought I would provide an update on the available languages and their use of a default masculine or feminine voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9967,513,14006],"tags":[3914,15,131,55,134,339,120,12620,12,15961],"class_list":["post-8845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-data","category-photos","tag-apple","tag-culture","tag-economy","tag-gender","tag-geography","tag-language","tag-sex","tag-siri","tag-technology","tag-voice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8845"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8883,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845\/revisions\/8883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}