[QUOTE][B]Sandy Springs, Georgia (CNN) --[/B] For the past two years, she's been a pocket and purse accessory to millions of Americans. She's starred alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel. She's provided weather forecasts and restaurant tips, been mocked as useless and answered absurd questions about what she's wearing.
She is Siri, Apple's voice-activated virtual "assistant" introduced to the masses with the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011.
Behind this groundbreaking technology there is a real woman. While the ever-secretive Apple has never identified her, all signs indicate that the original voice of Siri in the United States is a voiceover actor who laid down recordings for a client eight years ago. She had no idea she'd someday be speaking to more than 100 million people through a not-yet-invented phone.
Her name is [URL="http://www.susancbennett.com/"]Susan Bennett[/URL] and she lives in suburban Atlanta.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/04/tech/mobile/bennett-siri-iphone-voice/index.html?hpt=hp_t1"]Source.[/URL]
Listening to the demos, she sounds exactly like Siri. I can't imagine how much work she had to do though, there's probably thousands of individual lines.
[QUOTE=MasterFen006;42404395]Listening to the demos, she sounds exactly like Siri. I can't imagine how much work she had to do though, there's probably thousands of individual lines.[/QUOTE]
That or they managed to mimic her voice by using a table of basic pronunciation then mash it together.
[QUOTE=Reagy;42404418]That or they managed to mimic her voice by using a table of basic pronunciation then mash it together.[/QUOTE]
They must have done a good job on that if that was the case.
The Big Bang Theory really messed me up then because I thought that girl was Siri.
[QUOTE=IceWarrior98;42404488]The Big Bang Theory really messed me up then because I thought that girl was Siri.[/QUOTE]
People watch that!?
[QUOTE=1/4 Life;42404591]People watch that!?[/QUOTE]
well obviously otherwise it wouldn't even be on TV in the first place you DINGUS
/sarcasm BBT is awful
[QUOTE=IceWarrior98;42404488]The Big Bang Theory really messed me up then because I thought that girl was Siri.[/QUOTE]
that is not the only way in which watching big bang theory will mess you up
If I were her I would just mimic SIRI while with friends
"Turn Right"
"Shut your fucking mouth susan we're on a bridge"
My mom bought a GPS and the voice for it sounded like SIRI. Apple doesn't exclusively own the voice
[QUOTE=Kebab;42404632]well obviously otherwise it wouldn't even be on TV in the first place you DINGUS
/sarcasm BBT is awful[/QUOTE]
bazinga xD venezuela
[editline]4th October 2013[/editline]
sweet my 3000th post
[url]http://www.wimp.com/voicesiri/[/url]
Here's a whole video on how it's done.
lol thats cool
the comments in the article are literally people bitching about how not newsworthy this story is
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