The other day, Apple rolled out the beta version of iOS 14.5.6, in which users noticed one interesting
What is known
The developers have removed the female voice of Siridefault. Apple's voice assistant will now be gender-neutral. Users will be able to choose their own voice for the assistant when they first activate the device. There will be four voice options to choose from. Now there are two of them.
Here's a recording of Siri's new lineup of American voices in iOS 14.5. Voices 1 and 4 are the existing ones, voices 2 and 3 are the new ones. pic.twitter.com/6emei4B3Z9
- John Gruber (@gruber) April 1, 2021
By the way, according to a recent UN study, voice assistants with female voices by default reinforce gender stereotypes and contribute to biased attitudes towards women in society.
Let's remember iOS 14.5 will be the biggest update for iPhone since the release of iOS 14. The firmware will add the function of unlocking the phone using Face ID in a mask and will return picture-in-picture mode for YouTube. In addition, the system will have the ability to set YouTube Music and Spotify as the default music player for Siri and much more.
Source: MacRumors
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