I met Steve Wozniak at a tech conference last year, and his acknowledgement of me as the voice of Siri was very special. S: The only contact I’ve had with Apple was sort of second hand. K: In my best Siri voice: “I’m sorry, I am not authorised to answer that question.” Jon: The original system was recorded for a US company called Scansoft, who were then bought by Nuance. This job is mine!” I went to the audition and got the job on the spot! I read the brief and thought: “This is me. The process is called concatenation, and the reason the original Siri was so iconic is because she was the first concatenated voice to actually sound human. I recorded four hours a day, five days a week for a month.
Susan: All of the original Siri voices worldwide came from a bank of digital voices that were recorded in 2005.
How does one become the voice of Siri? Apple are a simply brilliant technology company – but they’re not so brilliant with people Jon Briggs We find out what it’s like to be in the pockets of millions – and what it’s like to answer the world’s questions. And Karen Jacobsen is famous in Australia as the “GPS girl” – but her son still finds it strange to talk to a version of her that is trapped in a phone. Susan Bennett is familiar as the American female Siri – as well as the the voice of Delta Airlines. Jon Briggs, who is also the voice of The Weakest Link, was the first British male voice for Siri. There are both male and female variations of Siri, and different versions the world over – but who are the real people behind the voices?
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