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

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    711 month 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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      291 month 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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        3230 days ago

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

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          2230 days ago

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

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            629 days 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)

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        229 days ago

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