AI assistants are sexist and understand men better

Digital personal assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri, are sexist, according to one expert. They struggle to understand quiet and'breathy' voices of women compared with the deeper voices of men. The software is often developed with the help of male voice examples and so lacks a deeper understanding of female commands. The comment was made by Delip Rao, the CEO and co-founder of R7 Speech Sciences, a company that uses artificial intelligence to understand speech. Voice recognition software is built-in to most modern devices and has been around for years.