Sorry, I tried to give this submission the benefit of the doubt on the issue of feminine voices as the default standard for voice assistants and the outright use of "sexy" as clickbait is egregious enough.

Seriously, the only "sexiness" there is to this is the individual preference with two lines of code:

>"She speaks smooth enough. Turning up a bit of the pitch will make her voice cuter"

Was that really worth being part of the title?

We already have outstanding issues of misogyny in machine learning, data science and computer science writ large.

The title implies some kind of golfing being done here as if API copypasta constitutes an achievement.

I'd be more forgiving but the fact that this made it to my front page with any idea of sexualizing existing content and technology when we are tirelessly trying to demonstrate gender equity in the field frustrates me altogether.

Pretty good article overall.

I predict that the 'sexy' will lead to more trouble than it was worth. It's only a small part of the actual article but will probably overshadow all discussions.

I couldn't figure out how to play a sample of the "sexy" voice, did I just miss it?