"One squall stoop man, One leper mannequin"
Posted on June 19, 2002 @ 12:22 in Research
Here's an older (1999) but hilarious report of how a voice recognition package kept misunderstanding the tester. Turns out the software could not fit the male tester's tenor voice in the voice recognition patterns associated with male speakers. Setting the software to expect a 15 year old girl did the trick though, and suddenly the software and the tester were on speaking terms again.
Another small example of how gender not only structures social interaction, but how it, in often rather implicit ways, influences the design of our everyday artifacts.
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