Beeb: Listen to what the BBC’s new voice assistant sounds like

The BBC has chosen a northern male voice for its answer to Amazon’s Alexa, saying it would be problematic to have a female voice in a “subservient” role.

The “warm and friendly” northern accent was selected because the BBC wanted “to represent the diversity of the audience” and decided that received pronunciation (RP) would be the wrong thing.

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