Susan Bennett, the actress who provided the voice of Apple's Siri assistant, says she "doesn't really" use Siri herself.
(Siri cost apple 200 million)
"It's too weird," she says in a new interview.
While she uses many
Apple products, "I'm used to hearing my voice on radio and TV
commercials and that sort of thing, but to hear my own voice coming out
of this little computer phone is too strange."
Bennett says she recorded every sound combination in the English
language one fateful July in 2005, working five days a week, four hours a
day, but didn't know it was for Siri until six years later, in 2011,
when another voice actor e-mailed,"Hey, we're playing around with this
new iPhone.
Isn't this you?" Bennett says she was "kind of horrified,
because I hadn't been told... On the other hand, I was extremely
flattered."
In the interview she also says she felt "dissed" when Siri answered one
of her first questions, "What are you doing," with a disgusted "I'm
talking to you..."
Although on her personal web site, Bennett shares a recording of herself being interviewed by Siri.
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