Blayne Sucks

I found this article amusing and thought I would share it. I’m not sure I really think men should start using this as an excuse though.

Actually, one of the interesting things about it in my opinion is that it could have some implications in artificial intelligence and robotics. For example, if the Japanese created female android wants to create a voice that indistinguishable from a human female’s voice, that might be harder than simply creating a male voice.

Of course, that assumes vocal reproductions run into the same issues that graphic reproductions run into. There’s a discontinuity at some point where the closer to realistic graphics of humans look the more odd and inhuman they look. Perhaps voices wouldn’t run into issues quite like that, but I suspect they would. I haven’t really done a lot of research in that area though.