The voices of women in tech are still being erased | MIT Technology Review
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TikTok’s decision to use a woman’s voice without her permission is only one recent example of a problem that some mistakenly think we’ve moved past.
The voices of women in tech are still being erased | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content In the middle of the night on May 24, TikTok changed its voice . The ubiquitous woman’s voice that could read your video’s text out loud in a slightly stilted, robotic cadence was suddenly replaced by one with an almost smirky, upbeat tone. Many users started calling the new one the “Uncanny Valley Girl” to express their displeasure. Lil Nas X even made a TikTok about it. But what happened to the old voice? And who was the woman behind it? When we think of women in computing, we often think about how, bo
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