Why does Siri have different voices and accents?

I wish there were even more options, they all seem to sound snotty. The ones for the Google personal assistant on Android phones sounds even snottier to me.

I think they give the accent options so it will sound familiar to the user’s ear. English has such a range of dialects and accents that people from different English-speaking regions or nations might have a hard time understanding each other.

Siri, Cortana and Google Now all sound snotty and self righteous, in every setting they have. I guess it’s the phone’s way of telling us the robots are better than us.

My advice would be to ignore it. It would be nice if the digital assistant sounded like an assistant and not my mother, but that’s a complaint you have to take to Apple, Microsoft and Google.

How great would that be, Siri actually in your mothers voice.

I heard that when they first introduced “talking” cars, they switched from a female voice to a male voice because customers felt the female voice was snotty and nagging them to turn their lights off.

I don’t think the voices sound that bad at all. I do crack up when my phone mangles up a very simple to pronounce street name or city in its very proper voice, though.