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If you have a smartphone, you also have your very own digital personal assistant. There’s the iPhone’s Siri (now added to Apple TV), of course, but don’t forget Cortana on the Windows Phone or the S voice on the Samsung Galaxy. All of these virtual voices have one thing in common: They all sound female. 倘若你有一部智能手机，那你一定也会有自己的私人专属数码助手。苹果手机上装有Siri语音助手（现今苹果电视上也装有此功能），当然，类似的语音功能软件还有微软手机上的“Cortana”（微软小娜）以及三星“盖乐世”系列手机上的S voice语音助手功能。但所有的这些虚拟语音功能都有一个共同的特点：均为女性发音。 This, as you might’ve guessed, is no coincidence. Writing for Wired this week, Jessi Hempel explores some of the social-science research on the way people perceive male voices versus female voices. Take, for example, research conducted by Karl MacDorman, an Indiana University professor who studies human-computer interaction: 你可能已经猜到，这些巧合并非偶然。杰西·亨普尔本周在美国《连线》杂志发表了一篇文章，文章写到他对一些社会科学方面的研究进行了调研，比如人们对男性和女性声音的感知方式差异。举个例子，印第安纳大学的一位主要研究人机交互的教授卡尔·麦克道曼曾经进行过这样一个研究： | 
