Institute of Reading Development

Creating Inclusive Voices for the 21st Century: A Non-Binary Text-to-Speech for Conversational Assistants

As voice assistant usage continues to grow, their homogeneity becomes even more problematic with the UNESCO report, “I’d Blush if I could” showing that designing only feminine voice assistants encourages negative behavior, both with virtual assistants and with real people [3]. While masculine text-to-speech (TTS)…