The woman behind Siri, Apple's friendly voice-activated virtual 'assistant,' has finally been revealed.
Susan Bennett, a voice-over actor from suburban Atlanta, Georgia, laid down hours of nonsensical recordings for an unknown client eight years ago; little did she know, she would soon be speaking to more than 100million people once Siri was introduced with the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011.
For four hours a day during the entire month of July 2005, Mrs Bennett, 64, read hundreds of phrases and sentences that enabled Apple to pull out vowels, consonants, syllables and diphthongs; before playing with her pitch and speed.
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