Voice assistant Siri's initial setting has been changed to a format that can be selected from 4 types, and conventional female voice can also be selected

Voice assistants such as Apple's Siri often have female voices as the default settings, but in iOS 14.5, the default settings have been removed with Siri, and it is now a format that you can choose from four types of voices. I found out that.

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

In a video posted by John Gruber on Twitter, Siri's voice choices have increased from 2 to 4, with Voice 1 being the existing male voice, Voice 2 being the new female voice, Voice 3 being the new male voice, and Voice 4 being. You can see that it is an existing female voice.

Until now, female voice was the initial selection in most countries and regions, and those who wanted to make male voice changed it later. If you want to use Siri's voice that you are familiar with, you can choose Voice 4 yourself.

It has been pointed out that the default voice of each company's voice assistant function is only female, as of 2017 when the assistant function was available. It is thought that female voice was selected because of the research result that 'female voice feels warmer', but robot voice researchers commented that 'it should be challenged to be neutral'. Was out.