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Title: Susan Bennett: The real voice of Siri
Post by: HCK on October 04, 2013, 07:01:21 pm
Susan Bennett: The real voice of Siri
      


         
         
      
Siri, that personal assistant in each and every iPhone (4S and above), is actually a real person, not some computer generated piece of code. The team at CNN did some digging out, and they discovered that the real Siri isn’t Allison Dufty, as The Verge reported last month, it’s actually a woman from the Atlanta area known as Susan Bennett. She did some voice work in 2005 for a company called GM Voices. GM Voices then worked with ScanSoft, who added Susan’s voice in their database, a database that Apple then used to generate Siri.
 
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