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 ...

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 ...

With "sound assistant" each company developing, mainly by Siri, you can operate it by talking to a smartphone, speakers, and so on. It is expected that operation of equipment by speech recognition ...

One of the main benefits of Google Maps, Waze, Apple Maps, and the other navigation apps on Android and iPhone is that you can get turn-by-turn voice directions, meaning that they can assist you as ...

For years, debate has raged online as to whether male or female voices are best for aviation voice warning systems, so pilots can respond quickly and accurately (archived): This post had gained 29,000 ...

Drivers in England who have a "female" sat nav voice have been warned. Satnavs that have a “sexy-sounding” female voice are a bad influence on male drivers, according to a new study, which has made ...