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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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[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 74 points 3 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.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 29 points 3 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.

[-] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Nikko882@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

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

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 6 points 3 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)