Dear fellow humans with naturally soft voices, I would like to start off with a story. I was standing on my metal chair. My fingers dug into the paper grocery bag that covered my health textbook. I ...

Technology’s many automated female voices are nothing if not helpful. By Susan Dominus Artwork by Yehwan Song Susan Dominus is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the ...

At this point, there is no shortage of stories that have posed some form of the question, “Why are voice assistants always female?” GeorgePeters/Getty Images Imagine yourself in the cockpit of a ...