V4 11-1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Rank the uses of voice assistants

Making phone calls

Setting alarms

Which song is playing

Reading emails

Making reservations

reminding about dates

1

2

3

4

5

6

Fill in the gaps using key words

shortcoming

predominantly

compliant

binary

inclusive

chatbot

sceptical

blush

impairment

abuse

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

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What was the aim of Mozilla's 2019 Common Voice project?

By what percentage is Google's speech recognition more accurate for men than it is for women?

Which organization is planning to launch a voice assistent called Beeb in 2020?

What is project Q?

How many people were involved in Project Q's voice sample?

By what percentage is Alexa's understanding of native accents greater than its understanding of non-native accents?

Read the text together

What is the general problem identified in the article?

1. predominantly male
2. don't understand non-English accents
3. need to be designed more inclusive

What is the main difference between how male and female voices are perceived?

1. sound superior and more intelligent
2. sound more helpful and compliant
3. are easier to understand

What does Google's Euphonia project do?

1. help understand regional accents
2. learns voice patterns of users with impairments
3. works with care service providers

What is the main problem with current voice technology?

1. it only offers two options
2. not programmed to respond to abuse
3. historically favoured white and chinese male voices

in a way that is bigger or smaller than it should be in relation to something else

change a situation in order to make things square and equal

increase people's understanding of a situation or issue

willing to do what other people want, like compliant

over a long period of time

mention something so that people know about it

make something larger in size or amount than it used to be

someone who uses a product, especially a computer or a piece of software

Match the verb with the nouns

attitudes

a promise

a request

the norm

a product

responsibility

launch

change

take

respond to

live up to

become

Datasets have _____ favoured white and Chines male voices. [HISTORY]

Voice technology often fails to respond _______ to abuse. [ADEQUATE]

Voice assistants ______ start out as female by default. [PREDOMINANT]

Male voices are used to telegraph ______ [SUPERIOR]

Ryan Sherman believes that tech companies should exercise responsibilty that is ______to the influence they have. [PROPORTION]

Some AI products have standard ______ features. [ACCES]

Voice assistants will soon be
part of everyone's lives.

Voice assistants just
make people lazy

Unless we are careful,
AI will take over