{"id":1372,"date":"2016-11-01T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:45","slug":"voice-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/01\/voice-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_604\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-604\" class=\"wp-image-604 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice-200x133.jpg\" alt=\"Close up of hand holding smartphone, text on screen: What can I help you with?\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/OM4Rmr\">iphonedigital\/flickr<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The growing high-tech field of conversational computing is popularized by intelligent virtual assistants like Apple\u2019s Siri, Microsoft\u2019s Cortana, Amazon\u2019s Alexa, and the Google Assistant. Interestingly, all of them use a young female voice. Because it has social and emotional dimensions not seen with keyboards and screens, conversational computing is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/10\/technology\/looking-for-a-choice-of-voices-in-ai-technology.html?_r=1\">holding a mirror to many of society\u2019s biggest preconceptions around race and gender<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s a kind of pressure to conform to the prejudices of the world,\u201d explains <strong>Jason Mars<\/strong>, professor of computer science whose tech start-up features an AI smartphone app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growing high-tech field of conversational computing is popularized by intelligent virtual assistants like Apple\u2019s Siri, Microsoft\u2019s Cortana, Amazon\u2019s Alexa, and the Google Assistant. Interestingly, all of them use a young female voice. Because it has social and emotional dimensions not seen with keyboards and screens, conversational computing is holding a mirror to many of society\u2019s biggest preconceptions\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/01\/voice-choice\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,188],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-ai","tag-people"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice.jpg",240,160,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice-150x100.jpg",150,100,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice.jpg",240,160,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice.jpg",240,160,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice.jpg",240,160,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice.jpg",240,160,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice.jpg",60,40,false],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice.jpg",240,160,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice.jpg",240,160,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-voice-choice.jpg",240,160,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The growing high-tech field of conversational computing is popularized by intelligent virtual assistants like Apple\u2019s Siri, Microsoft\u2019s Cortana, Amazon\u2019s Alexa, and the Google Assistant. 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Because it has social and emotional dimensions not seen with keyboards and screens, conversational computing is holding a mirror to many of&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}