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.
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).
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.
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.
