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Susan Alice Bennett (née Cameron, born July 31, 1949) is an American voice actress and a former backup singer for Roy Orbison and Burt Bacharach. [3] She is best known as the female American voice of Apple's Siri personal assistant, since the service was introduced on the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011.
The original British male voice was provided by Jon Briggs, a former technology journalist and for 12 years narrated for the hit BBC quiz show The Weakest Link. [18] After discovering he was Siri's voice by watching television, he first spoke about the role in November 2011.
On 4 July 2000, she relocated to New York City, [5] [6] [7] writing and recording songs, and has since released ten albums on her independent label Kurly Queen. [8] [9]Her songs have been on soundtracks for Dawson's Creek [10] and the NBC show Passions, [11] and she has shared the stage with Christopher Cross, Neil Sedaka, Norah Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Spyro Gyra, Deborah Cox, Jars of Clay, Three ...
Google launches the Voice Search app for the iPhone, bringing speech recognition technology to mobile devices. [11] 2011: October 4: Invention: Apple announces Siri, a digital personal assistant. In addition to being able to recognize speech, Siri is able to understand the meaning of what it is told and take appropriate action. [12] 2014: April ...
Under its current iOS 15.3, a female voice for Siri insists she’s “genderless. Like cacti and certain species of fish.” “Animals and French nouns have gender.
Apple is introducing a new Apple Music plan — available exclusively through Siri — which will be half the price of its regular individual plan, aimed at driving up sales of Siri-enabled devices.
Siri Daly shares sweet tribute (with throwback pics of Carson and kids) to Blake Shelton as he leaves ‘The Voice’
In 2007, Briggs recorded his voice for text-to-speech software developed by ScanSoft, [4] later acquired by Nuance Communications. In 2011, Nuance's software was used by Apple Inc. for their British Male version of Siri, the personal assistant application for Apple devices. [5] Briggs's voice is renamed "Daniel" for these purposes.