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- Title
Gender Ambiguity in Voice-Based Assistants: Gender Perception and Influences of Context.
- Authors
Mooshammer, Sandra; Etzrodt, Katrin
- Abstract
Recently emerging synthetic acoustically gender-ambiguous voices could contribute to dissolving the still prevailing genderism. Yet, are we indeed perceiving these voices as "unassignable"? Or are we trying to assimilate them into existing genders? To investigate the perceived ambiguity, we conducted an explorative 3 (male, female, ambiguous voice) × 3 (male, female, ambiguous topic) experiment (N = 343). We found that, although participants perceived the gender-ambiguous voice as ambiguous, they used a profoundly wide range of the scale, indicating tendencies toward a gender. We uncovered a mild dissolve of gender roles. Neither the listener's gender nor the personal gender stereotypes impacted the perception. However, the perceived topic gender indicated the perceived voice gender, and younger people tended to perceive a more male-like gender.
- Subjects
GENDERISM; GENDER stereotypes; HAIRSTYLES; HUMAN behavior; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Human-Machine Communication, 2022, Vol 5, p49
- ISSN
2638-602X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.30658/hmc.5.2