And in October 2021, Hinge added a voice prompts feature, allowing users to answer questions about themselves by recording 30-second audio messages. “There was one person who had this super whiny voice and I just couldn’t do it,” he says. “We’re quite good at assessing people’s ages from a voice alone and their physical size and race,” Monahan explains. “They don’t realize how much tension they have in their voice,” explains Thompson. I think ‘that first one was good, but let me see if I could do it better.’ And then 28 times later … ,” Thompson explains.

Source: thestar November 15, 2021 00:01 UTC