It should come with different voices I'd expect, it has a female one in the promotional ads in the US, whereas when BBC correspondents were trying it out it definitely had a British male voice.
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Will Siri get alternative voices?
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Maybe Kit form Knight Rider....dating myself
That would be awesome! "Hello Michael. Shall I plot a course for Starbucks?" The only problem is my name isn't Michael.
That was one of the things I was wondering, and while there's nothing definitive either way (that I can find) I am assuming no because it seems like the sort of thing they would have demoed at the event (let's face it, while I like the 4S and bought 2 of them, the event didn't have much to it and they ended up spending most of the time rehashing iOS5 features).
There was an article on the voices saying that the female will be the ONLY one avail at launch, there will be others but they will be updated post release.
GPS systems that offer celebrity voices have a limited number of responses: "turn left here," "turn right here," etc. That's why they can hire celebrities to record the voices. Siri has an unlimited number of responses, so you're stuck with a computer generated voice. They can vary certain aspects of the voice to make it sound male, female, different accents, etc, but you can't have celebrity voices.
I was replying to a comment about turn by turn directions. Some of the product demos are using a male voice, though. Maybe it's region specific, as the male voice was Brittish as I recall.