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Meet The Real-Life Woman Behind Siri’s Voice
By ERIC ABENT
It wasn't until nearly a decade later that we met the person behind the voice of Siri. Susan Bennett revealed her role as Siri's voice actor in a 2013 interview with CNN.
Bennett explained that the original gig took place in July 2005, when she spent four hours, five days a week for an entire month recording voiceovers.
These voiceovers were for a speech recognition system. Eventually, that system was used by SRI International in the development of Siri.
Three years later, Siri was acquired by Apple in a deal orchestrated by Steve Jobs, just two months after it launched as a standalone app on the iOS App Store.
After her reveal in 2013, CNN reached out to an audio-forensics expert who determined with "100%" certainty that Bennett's voice and Siri's voice are the same. Apple wont confirm.