Major tech companies like Google and Amazon have received criticism for making their servile intelligent assistants
with female voices.
McAleer and his colleagues are now replicating their study
with female voices, and they plan to do so across other cultures.
But he wanted to start
with a female voice and with a local and more contemporary story.
Before you know it, you're being «tested» by a new AI
with a female voice and a slight sadistic streak.
«Breath of the Wild begins
with a female voice commanding Link to wake from his slumber — a sleep he has remained in for 100 years.
For sheer desperation, however, I prefer the cordoned - off recreation of Rhoades's LA living room,
with a female voice chanting about her glorious «black pussy.»
Inspired by the poetry and teachings of her close friend and mentor Salvatore Cambosu, and concerned in particular
with the female voice, Lai developed a rhythmic visual language that interpreted the domestic and social lives of these women.
A video posted online showed the Galaxy S8's much - hyped AI assistant
with a female voice rapping.
Not exact matches
I decided I would grow my account using self - deprecating shock humor
with a sexually - charged, unabashed
female voice.
The last thing they want is an edgy, scintillating discussion,
with the raucous laughter and powerful
voice of a singularly funny, smart
female host who, on a nightly basis, shapes one of the most significant conversations in contemporary culture.
Samsung reportedly considered have both male and
female voices,
with the latter named «Kestra,» but it's not clear what ended up happening.
Readers may recall a Medium post earlier this year by venture capitalist Hunter Walk, in which he described how interacting
with Amazon's virtual assistant device Echo, which responds in a
female voice to sharp commands addressed to the name «Alexa,» was teaching his young daughter bad manners.
I am a
female pastor in Seattle that publicly called Mark D out in 2006, met
with him then and
voiced concerns for the past 8 years.
I wonder if perhaps someone needed to see how this, too, is what it looks like to proclaim the Gospel: quite pregnant,
female, Bible open,
voice filled
with tears and laughter and passion, not from - away but rooted right here, imperfect.
With his superb eye for giving voice to female disciples, such as the Samaritan woman and Martha and Mary, the Fourth Evangelist tells the story of Mary Magdalene's encounter with Jesus outside the empty t
With his superb eye for giving
voice to
female disciples, such as the Samaritan woman and Martha and Mary, the Fourth Evangelist tells the story of Mary Magdalene's encounter
with Jesus outside the empty t
with Jesus outside the empty tomb.
The «priest» delivers a range of automated blessings in German, French, English, Spanish and Polish and can speak
with either a male or a
female voice.
Put up that screen again and from behind it let me hear a
voice,
female or male, awkwardly stumbling through a few sentences
with this «her / his,» «humankind,» «repairperson» business, and I can make a strong prediction as to the class of the individual speaking.
Well, it's been rebooted
with better animation, better
voices (sorry, Peter Cullen), better stories and a powerful princess / pilot, as well as a
female (or maybe trans - boy) scientist pilot.
With his appointment, the Village Board will be without a
female voice for the first time in 12 years.
Babies this age seem to respond best to the
female voice — the one historically associated
with comfort and food.
A former athletic apparel CEO
with experience in nonprofits, she looks to be a
voice for women in a state that doesn't currently have a
female in the House.
«Labour is still the
voice of women in parliament,» she said, pointing to the 80
female MPs in the party compared
with 45 in the Conservative party.
Perfect fare for a nation finally reckoning
with its own population of former slaves, as well as one of preliberated
females just beginning to find their own
voices.
(Because cashiers often need to be country and gender specific — a bank will not clean out an account belonging to a
female name in Texas if a male
voice with a Slavic accent is on the line — an odd economy in, say, «fml CA US UK cashout» cashiers has developed.)
Results showed that male listeners preferred
female voices with high pitch, breathy
voice and wide formant spacing that correlated
with a smaller body size, while
females preferred to hear low - pitched male
voices with low pitch and narrow formant spacing that suggested larger body size.
But surprisingly,
female listeners also preferred male
voices that are breathy, which presumably softened the aggressiveness associated
with a large body size.
I'll never forget the
voice of that
female doctor telling me
with such coldness that I was pregnant.
Reality is that
females should train
with heavy weights just like their male counterparts often do and no it won't make you «bulky» and deepen your
voice.
«If it's a toxic relationship and you've made multiple attempts to
voice your concerns... it's time to cut ties
with that toxic person,» says Nicole Zangara, LCSW and author of Surviving
Female Friendships: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Much of the film's emotional punch comes from the ever - optimistic Dug and his relationships
with three key supporting characters: caveman tribe chief Chief (Timothy Spall), who admits he's old for... 32, Goona, a
female football phenom who Dug digs (she's
voiced by Maisie Williams of «Game of Thrones») and Hognob, Dug's pig pal, who's much more than a pet (he's got a little Gromit in him).
Young farmer Eragon (Ed Speleers) finds a dragon's egg, and teams up
with the newborn dragon, Saphira (
voiced by Rachel Weisz), a former Dragon Rider (Jeremy Irons) and a
female Elf (Sienna Guillory) to tackle an evil king (John Malkovich) and his shady accomplice (Robert Carlyle).
They include an alternate opening of Carol doing an
voice exercise
with an annoyingly -
voiced woman interviewing her in a bookstore, more of and on Dani and Moe's rocky marriage, a scene featuring an accomplished
female voiceover artist (played by Melissa Disney), and a number of additional clips from the convincing fake reality dating TV show woven throughout the film,
During this 1 - on - 1 phone interview
with Collider, actress and filmmaker Heather Graham talked about wanting to make a movie celebrating women and friendship, the biggest challenges in getting this film going, having her
voice heard, as a
female filmmaker, what she most enjoyed about playing Honey, putting together this cast, funny moments on set, what she enjoyed about the experience of directing, her hope to do it again, juggling three different writing projects, and doing the British TV series Bliss, from David Cross.
He's now dusting himself off and now
voicing interest in returning to directing Marvel films while speaking
with The Wrap, specifically a darker
female - driven one.
Ford Prefect (Mos Def) is black, and decidedly odder than the original; Zaphod Beeblebrox now conceals his second head beneath the first, and is played
with hyperkinetic gusto by Sam Rockwell as a President of the Universe whose patent idiocy recalls one or two Presidents much closer to home; Marvin the eeyore - like Android (
voiced by Alan Rickman) has a cute appearance comically incongruous
with his deeply depressive nature; and Trillian (Zooey Deschanel), the well - nigh disposable token
female of the original radio show, has been elevated up to a genuine love - interest for dressing - gowned hero Arthur Dent (Martin «The Office» Freeman capably taking over from Simon Jones — although Jones turns up briefly as a «ghostly image»).
We are given two women left to portray the entire spectrum of
female presence in society; Marianne, the ageing rock star
with no
voice or conceivable role in society other than to be adored, and Penelope, the youthful beauty who must use her body to get ahead, and has no concept of consequence.
Female leads Kim Min - hee and Kim Tae - ri are both standouts, conveying the complexity of the film's multi-layered con games
with subtle changes of facial expression and tone of
voice.
Xavier Giannoli, who directs and co-wrote «Marguerite,» is well qualified having directed «The Singer,» known by the French title as Quand j' étais chanteur, which deals
with one Alain Moreau, the idol of a
female audience, who is aware that
with his advancing years the audience and his
voice are diminishing.
One of the films that didn't blow us away at Sundance, but offered a solid film full of jokes made just for cinephiles, was In a World... The film directed by actress Lake Bell follows a young
female voice coach (Bell) as she joins the all - male race to land the white - hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and
with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase «In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary
voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talent.
Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated
with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations
with his pet hamster,
voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism
with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between
female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.
Ashley Judd called for intersectionality in storytelling, followed by a powerful montage of diverse filmmakers explaining the necessity for minority
voices; writer and star of The Big Sick, Kumail Nanjiani, remarked that if he was able to watch and be affected by films narrating straight white men all his life, then white men have no reason to feel out of place
with BAME and
female - led stories.
In Goodbye Sarah Jane Smith, Sarah Jane seems to be showing signs of Alzheimer's just as another, ruder,
female defender of Earth, Ruby White [Julie Graham] appears — complete
with her own extraterrestrial computer, a handheld model called Mr. White [
voiced by Eddie Marsan].
With a haunting theme that's often accompanied by
female voice, Del Mar's flowing orchestral melody captures a lyricism that's worthy of Debussy's «La Mer» in communicating the literally transformative effect of nature on man, his lovely themes for aching violin capturing despair and acceptance, playful pizzicatos embodying a renewed sense of hope (as well as endearingly comic crabs) and exotic percussion hearing the mystery of an island and its outlying sea.
Whether the books are truly feminist is certainly debatable; however, it indisputably imbued its
female protagonist
with sexual agency, leading her to discover her
voice and power.
Directed
with zany aplomb by
female Israeli director Tayla Lavie, this chaptered saga of woman in uniform vs. ennui is characterized by a soaring sense of
voice and sees stars Dana Ivgy and Nelly Tagar face down the clock as they Minesweep their way through their deafeningly dull military assignment — paperwork.
While these stalwarts regularly do often pass their Bechdel Test
with honours, thankfully, there are, along
with Maren Ade's inclusion, two other «femme cinéastes» in competition, who will bring bona fide
female voices to the 2,500 - seat Theatre Lumiere; and both bring
with them a reputation for bringing heft and uncompromomising originality to their art.
Run over by animals that are driving a car, a cranky, elderly
female tourist (
voice by Elisa Gabrielli) also exchanges brutal punches and martial arts moves
with Alex on several occasions.
But as a filmmaker, Bell again makes her case for consideration as one of our finest, funniest
female voices with I Do... Until I Don't (R), an ensemble comedy of matrimonial errors.
With a fresh female voice in a male - dominated industry, Carol is determined to break barriers even if she is in direct competition with her fat
With a fresh
female voice in a male - dominated industry, Carol is determined to break barriers even if she is in direct competition
with her fat
with her father.
Along
with Toni Erdmann, whose director Maren Ade also produced Western, it seems the recent upsurge recently putting German cinema back on the map has been entirely reliant on the
voices of
female visions, and the results of which have been encouraging.