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Alt text: chrome extension documentation, which lists gender as a deprecated and ignored property since version 70

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

google gender abolitionist based???

[–] [email protected] 75 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ah it's a setting for Text To Speech functionality. Guess they replaced there being just a male and a female voice with there being a list of different voices each identified by a name.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Went down a rabbit hole with this, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's really interesting. Voices didnt need to be segmented by male or female anyways.

Especially since in a lot of animated shows, it's hard to tell anyways. Hell, one of the most popular anime MC is voiced by a woman.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

In non-Japanese cartoons as well. Jimmy Neutron is voiced by Debi Derryberry.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tons of young male characters are voiced by women. I'm curious which anime you're referring to though.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm guessing they are refering to Dragon Ball (Goku). Whose original voice actress (in Japanese) is Masako Nozawa.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

You're probably right, but my first thought was Luffy from One Piece, voiced by Mayumi Tanaka in Japanese and Colleen Clinkenbeard in English, both women.

(Also, I can't get over what a good name Clinkenbeard is for a VA who voices a pirate)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

also Naruto

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I know that feeling :(