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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums'I'm the original voice of Siri'
By Jessica Ravitz, CNN
updated 11:22 AM EDT, Fri October 4, 2013
Sandy Springs, Georgia (CNN) -- For the past two years, she's been a pocket and purse accessory to millions of Americans. She's starred alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel. She's provided weather forecasts and restaurant tips, been mocked as useless and answered absurd questions about what she's wearing.
She is Siri, Apple's voice-activated virtual "assistant" introduced to the masses with the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011.
Behind this groundbreaking technology there is a real woman. While the ever-secretive Apple has never identified her, all signs indicate that the original voice of Siri in the United States is a voiceover actor who laid down recordings for a client eight years ago. She had no idea she'd someday be speaking to more than 100 million people through a not-yet-invented phone.
Her name is Susan Bennett and she lives in suburban Atlanta.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/04/tech/mobile/bennett-siri-iphone-voice/index.html
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(27,677 posts)Background: Rajesh "Raj" Koothrappali has selective mutism (social anxiety disorder), which does not allow him to talk to women unless he's under the influence of alcohol. But he discovers that he can talk to Siri on his phone so he decides to pay her a visit in person:
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(19,379 posts)That and two bucks gets a cup of coffee at Starbucks.