susan bennett did the voice of siri for apple.
susan bennett did the voice of siri for apple.
who does the voice of siri for apple?
susan bennett
the original american voice of siri was provided in july 2005 by susan bennett, unaware that it would eventually be used for the voice assistant. a report from "the verge" in september 2013 about voice actors, their work, and machine learning developments, made hints that allison dufty was the voice behind siri, though this was disproven when dufty wrote on her website that she was "absolutely, positively "not" the voice of siri." citing growing pressure, bennett revealed her role as siri in october, and her claim was proven by ed primeau, an american audio forensics expert. apple has never confirmed the information.
siri
siri was originally released as a stand-alone application for the ios operating system in february 2010, and at the time, the developers were also intending to release siri for android and blackberry devices. two months later, apple acquired siri. on october 4, 2011, apple introduced the iphone 4s with a beta version of siri. after the announcement, apple removed the existing standalone siri app from app store. "techcrunch" wrote that, despite the siri app's support for iphone 4, its removal from app store might also have had a financial aspect for the company, in providing an incentive for customers to upgrade devices. third-party developer steven troughton-smith, however, managed to port siri to iphone 4, though without being able to communicate with apple's servers. a few days later, troughton-smith, working with an anonymous person nicknamed "chpwn", managed to fully hack siri, enabling its full functionalities on iphone 4 and ipod touch devices. additionally, developers were also able to successfully create and distribute legal ports of siri to any device capable of running ios 5, though a proxy server was required for apple server interaction.
siri