An interesting question came up Saturday at the MIT Tech Conference on artificial intelligence: "Why are most 'serving' machines given female voices?"

在周六的MIT科技會(huì)議關(guān)于人工智能的討論中，冒出了一個(gè)有趣的問題：“為什么大多數(shù)‘服務(wù)’類設(shè)備輸出的都是女性的聲音?”

Dennis Mortensen, CEO and founder of X.AI, was quick to bat down the implication of sexism.

X.AI的創(chuàng)立者兼CEO Dennis Mortensen迅速化解了這帶有性別歧視意味的問題。

"There's been studies, and I don't have to defend it because I did Andrew, but in all fairness, there's been proper studies about how you best direct people ... if that voice is a female, you increase the probability of success," Mortensen said.

Mortensen說：“這是有研究證明的，我也不必要去包庇什么，因?yàn)槲以?jīng)嘗試過用Andrew(男性的聲音)，但公平來說，的確是有一些關(guān)于如何有效對(duì)人們發(fā)出指令的研究……如果那個(gè)聲音是女性的，你就能提高成功對(duì)用戶進(jìn)行指令的概率。”

Scientific studies have shown that people generally find women's voices more pleasing than men's.

科學(xué)研究證明人們普遍感覺女性到聲音比男性的聽起來更讓人愉悅。

A more recent study about radio advertising concluded, that "the effectiveness of female voices is greater than male ones when the advertising aims to have an emotional link on a brand and the ad and when the advertiser's desired response is to modify or trigger a particular behavior."

有一個(gè)最新的關(guān)于廣播廣告的研究總結(jié)出，“當(dāng)廣告的目的是為了和品牌建立一種情感聯(lián)系，或者當(dāng)投放人渴望的用戶反饋是改變其行為或激起某種特定行為時(shí)，女性的聲音比男性的聲音更有效。”