When iOS 15.4 lands in your iPhone in just a few weeks, there might be a load of recent options to sift by means of: Face ID with a Masks, Faucet to Pay, new emoji, and Common Management on the iPad. However there might be one smaller change that’s simply as significant: a brand new Siri voice.

Launched as a part of the fourth iOS 15.4 beta, the brand new voice is solely labeled America (Voice 5). However if you hearken to it, you’ll discover that it’s considerably androgenous and tough to pin down as explicitly male or feminine. As a part of its continued push for range, Apple instructed Axios that it employed “a member of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood” to report the brand new Siri voice. Right here’s how the brand new voice sounds:

It’s not clear whether or not the brand new American voice will come to the opposite language varieties as properly. Apple gives 5 American voices and simply two on than another language

“We’re excited to introduce a brand new Siri voice for English audio system, giving customers extra choices to decide on a voice that speaks to them,” Apple mentioned in an announcement. “Tens of millions of individuals all over the world depend on Siri day-after-day to assist get issues achieved, so we work to make the expertise really feel as personalised as potential.”

Apple final 12 months eliminated the default feminine voice in iOS 14.5 and added three new voices, together with two choices recorded by black actors. On the time, Apple mentioned the voice choices had been “a continuation of Apple’s long-standing dedication to range and inclusion, and services and products which might be designed to higher replicate the range of the world we reside in.”