Ironically, it would be the same year that Apple stopped using her voice. It would be CNN who would reveal her identity as the voice of Siri in 2013. She was an anonymous household name.Įventually, her husband and son convinced her to go public. Initially, Bennett felt it was quite creepy that millions of people around the world were conversing with her voice. However, she felt too afraid to reveal her identity. Swiftly, Apple bought Siri and incorporated the technology into every iPhone they developed from the 4S onward.Īs soon as Apple made Siri widely available in October 2011, a fellow voice-over actor recognized Bennett’s voice and contacted her to ask if it was her. However, Apple realized that the Siri technology that ScanSoft had developed matched the vision for the Knowledge Navigator that they had been dreaming of since 1987. Initially, Siri started as a 3rd party app, on the iPhone’s app store. Kittlous explained that he chose the name Siri as in Norwegian it means “ beautiful woman who guides you to victory.” What would become Siri’s voice and personality, was reconstructed from Bennett’s deconstructed phrases and sentences. Kittlous employed a team of programmers and technicians from both ScanSoft, and later Nuance. Together they used computers to extract individual sounds and intonations from Bennett’s recordings. So far, she was unaware of how these strange phrases, such as “ say the shroding again, say the shreding again, say the shridding again, say the shrading again, say the shrudding again” would eventually propel her to global stardom.ĭag Kittlous and his team from ScanSoft took Bennett’s voice recordings and used them to create the world’s first concatenated speech. Upon conclusion, she turned down a permanent contract. ScanSoft had different plans for her voice and asked her to record nonsensical sentences and phrases for four hours a day, five days a week, in her home recording booth. Mostly, Bennett’s voice over work involved pre-recording set phrases and sentences, more often than not in character. However, during July 2005, a Norwegian tech company called ScanSoft decided to employ Bennett to do some rather unusual voice-over work. Delta Airlines used her voice to announce flight departures and arrivals.
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Little did Bennett know that only decades later she would make another world first with her voiceĭuring most of the 80s and 90s, Bennett’s anonymous voice was heard in TV advertising for companies like Coca Cola, McDonald’s and even in GPS systems. The American public was nervous about dealing with machines for banking transactions, and Tillie became the first ATM that the public came to trust. First National Bank of Atlanta asked Bennett to create a voice for the first talking ATM called Tillie the All-Time Teller. This first job would inadvertently be her first historical contribution to the humanization of computer interface. However, the fame that would come to become associated with her beautiful voice would take her down an alternative and historical path.Ħ8-year-old Bennett began doing voice overs in 1974. During the 60s and early 70s, she felt destined for a musical career and even toured as a backup singer for the likes of Roy Orbison and Burt Bacharach. Susan Bennett has had an incredibly long career using her voice. OMG! Susan Bennett Revealed as the Original Voice of Siri! Most people don’t know that they have heard the voice of Susan Bennett in airports, automated phone systems, TV ads and, of course, as the original voice of Siri
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