The new voice is apparently a different actress. And this new one actually has a bit of a flattered flutter in her voice when you do this exchange:
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Atlanta Voice Actress Susan Bennett Comes Forward as Original U.S. Voice of Siri
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It's pretty cool to see the face behind the voice, and it always pleases me to see people doing something they seem to enjoy (I have no idea - maybe she actually hates voice acting). I never hear the Siri voice, because I don't have any use for it. It always seems like more hassle than its worth to hold down the button, speak slowly and clearly and then have Siri not give you any useful assistance. In the time it takes me to type the thing in I'm looking for, Siri is still trying to direct me to a WolframAlpha page.
For anyone wondering about the UK Siri voice, it's the voice of Jon Briggs.
"Statistically, Siri is the strongest link..."
"Statistically, Siri is the strongest link..."
Yikes!
My wife is a voiceover artist. It would be weird to hear the phone going "don't forget to pick up milk on the way home" in her voice.
My wife is a voiceover artist. It would be weird to hear the phone going "don't forget to pick up milk on the way home" in her voice.
You think? That must be why Apple used that voice for Siri.
[edit: Thanks for the spellcheck, bedifferent!]
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ha! That's cute. What about the male voice? North America (I believe Canada has the male voice option?) seems to be the only region with the option between a male and female Siri. While I was in the UK, I tried the British version, it seemed a bad American stereotype and horrid on the ears. No wonder my friends in the UK prefer the US Siri
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I misread her name (on purpose?) as Vicki Bennett and thought how odd it was for People Like Us to voice Siri. It's actually Susan Bennett. How disappointing.
Just be careful what you wish for. TomTom used to sell additional voices (probably still does), and most of them just get on your nerves after a very short time.
And if you piss him off so much, he would go on: Shut up... Meg
(should call you Meg whatever your name is)
Until now I actually thought it was a fully synthesized voice (I don't have Siri on my phone, so haven't heard much of 'her') and not just merging recordings of individual phonemes. So yeah, I did think robots had their own voices..
I don't know what Apple does exactly in iOS, but on MacOS X each high quality voice is about 200-400 Megabyte. That's many many hours of voice recording. A lot of the recordings are complete words. I'd probably record and use multiple variants of the most common 100 words, depending on position within a sentence, emphasis and so on, to make it more life like.
