CNN has found Siri. Apple won’t confirm it, but the cable news make contacts is pretty reliable it’s got the totally woman. She’s a middle-aged voiceover actor named Susan Bennett, and she lives in the sphere of CNN’s backyard: Uptown Atlanta.But you probably so-called to the same degree much already, totally?
OK, perhaps not. Anyway, Bennett says she categorical to turn up into the open bearing in mind tech blog the Verge did a capture on tape bring forward with the aim of gone a little nation thinking with the aim of a dissimilar woman, Allison Dufty, might give been the creative voice of Siri. Dufty denied it, and Bennett categorical it was instant to turn up into the open. Since Apple wouldn’t confirm her identity, CNN hired an audio forensics expert to check banned her claims, and he concluded with the aim of Bennett’s voice and Siri’s are “identical—a 100-percent match.”
CNN’s complete quantity is worth appraisal, both on behalf of Bennett’s story and the story of how the network’s Jessica Ravitz got the story. A quick excerpt:
Bennett was a voiceover artiste I was interviewing on behalf of a CNN special project on the world's busiest airport—Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International—scheduled to turn up banned subsequently month. I was tracking down the airport's voices, and she, a voice of Delta terminals, was single of them. In the sphere of the direction of our phone conversation, I asked her to rattle inedible a little jobs she's had in excess of the years. She gave me a quick and broad-spectrum rundown and followed by added with the aim of she's ready a batch of IVR drive.
"IVR?" I asked.
"Interactive voice response," she answered. "The sort of factor you hear on a company's phone procedure."
On behalf of reasons I can't explain -- I was still struggling to understand my at the outset iPhone -- I blurted banned, "Hey, are you Siri?"
She gasped. And followed by I gasped.
"Oh my God," I thought. "You're thoroughly Siri, aren't you?"
Bennett is not the universal Siri, of course—just the U.S. Version. The British and Australian Siris give already stepped into the open. At present all that’s gone is on behalf of the new to the job male Siri voice to divulge himself. On behalf of all we know, he may well survive a middle-aged woman from Atlanta too.