Samsung scraps calling female assistant 'chipper,' male 'confident'

Samsung's Bixby used descriptions male and female voices that users considered sexist. Samsung hastily scrubbed the descriptions of male and female voices for its newly launched Bixby voice assistant Wednesday after users pointed out describing a woman's voice as "chipper" and "cheerful" and a male voice as "assertive" "confident" played into well-worn gender stereotypes. "We are constantly learning from customer feedback. We have removed the hashtag descriptions from the Bixby service," Samsung said in a statement to USA Today. Bixby no longer has descriptions of voice options.