Hear Q, the world’s first genderless voice for AI systems

If you use an AI-enabled voice assistant, chances are it is in a female voice. Though there is always a way to change it to a male voice, the core technology has been designed in such a way that it is either of the two ‘socially accepted’ genders.

In a bid to do away with the gender norms, a project by creative studio Virtue Nordic and the human rights festival Copenhagen Pride, in conjunction with social scientist Julie Carpenter, has given birth to what is called as the world’s first genderless AI voice, called Q.