Voice of Q

The world’s first genderless AI voice: Researchers launch neutral-sounding ‘Q’ that’s neither male nor female to fight bias in smart assistants
They modulated the pitch to find a range of 145 to 175hz was gender neutral. Talk to Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa and you’ll notice a common trait: They both have female voices. While this can help make robotic assistants more relatable and natural to converse with, it has assigned a gender to a technology that’s otherwise genderless