So it masks gender by making everyone sound "like a dude" according to the videos. That's not masking gender. Make everyone sound like a robot and the blog post title will be more accurate.
The text of the article clarifies -- they made some women sound processed-male, some men sound processed-female, some sound processed without a gender shift, and some were unprocessed. So if you got a processed-sounding voice, you had no way to know the gender of the person you were talking to.
The point of the experiment was for the interviewer to think the interviewer was a particular gender to see if they as it based on that impression. Making everyone sound like a robot does not accomplish that goal, so I don't see how it makes the title more accurate.
It makes everyone sound the same. Changing only women's voices is a tell-tale sign. If you get a guy who sounds "computery", or "off", it's a girl.
They didn't only change women's voices. They also changed some men to sound like women. And they made some voices sound processed without pitch changes.
That could be a fun thing to break out at a party. I wonder what me sounding like a woman, sounds like.
Did you read the article? They changed both males and females, and had 2 control groups (one that was modulated without gender change, and 1 that was unmodulated).
This is by far one of the best ways to do it.
Yeah, I cringed when they said they thought of "giving all females a bane mask". How does that do anything? Anyone getting a person wearing a bane mask would automatically realize they were female.
Not if everyone wears the same "mask" regardless of gender.
They said "giving all females", not "giving everyone".