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Comment by Yver

6 years ago

This is [uncanny valley][1] applied to voice. They intentionally made a voice that listeners can't quite identify, and it ends up feeling unnatural.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

This view of the future seems very bland and uninteresting.

I thought the idea is to make gender a flexible thing, for example you can experiment with being a female or whatever gender profile, based on whatever you feel comfortable with.

Not to reduce the worlds gender representations (in business, culture, etc) into a homogeneous middle ground? Expanding what's possible in terms of personal expression rather than (further) restricting it. So I'm very confused why this exists other than as an interesting technical project?