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

  • key@lemmy.keychat.org
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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      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.

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

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            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)