Desiree Kabis
Desiree Kabis
Desiree Kabis
Desiree Kabis

Hello. Nice to meet you.
My name is More.

I am here to break the norm of having to choose between ‘male’ or ‘female’ on your phone, computer, or digital assistant.

Technology is genderless.

Gender is not necessary.
Gender roles don’t have to exist.

I am here to show that there are
more than two genders.

I am More.

My gender-neutral voice is the combination of two separate voices.

Voices, just as gender, bodies and personalities cannot be put into categories.

 

MORE – gender-neutral voice

2019

Gender-neutral text-to-speech voice
Experimental video work

in collaboration with Mai Bauvald, Timothée Charon, Rebecca Zink, Moritz Schottmüller
advisor: James Langdon

More is an experimental gender-neutral text-to-speech voice combined of two separate voices. Spoken by two unique individuals chosen as they do not have a typically male and female voice. A voice coach trained the two for this task, practicing instructions that are commonly used for training individuals who are transgender, trying to adapt the typical speech patterns of a man or a woman.