The world's first genderless AI voice

The voice, called ‘Q’, was created by researchers from Copenhagen Pride, equality campaign organisation EqualAI and Virtue, a creative agency under Vice, to be gender neutral.

To do this, they recorded voices from participants who identify as non-binary, or neither exclusively female nor male.

Researchers then tested the voice on 4,600 people across Europe.

Testers were asked to grade the voice between one and five, with one meaning a male voice and five a female one.