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Meet the Voice Behind Siri
An anonymous reader writes in with a story about an actress who claims to be the voice behind Siri. "Own an iPhone or iPad? Since Siri was released on the iPhone 4S in 2011, I bet you, like me, have been wondering who the real voice behind Apple Virtual voice assistant Siri is. She has provided weather forecast, restaurants tips and has power announcements at airport around the world. Well, the real voice behind Siri has been revealed, and she is Atlanta-based Actress Susan Bennett. While her name might not ring a bell to you, her friends , those who have worked with her, her family and even forensics expert recognized her voice, and says she is the real Siri."
...when you need hem?
Does no work for you? Why the fuck would anyone care who did the voice for some app....
Unless you're just some shallow shutin whos only 'human' contact is your phone.... oh wait... Now i see why you care who did the voice.
Well, that's just sad.
She's still not going to sleep with you. No matter how many preverted questions of yours you made her answer on your phone...
Still really sad tho.
That's incredibly fascinating. What's for lunch?
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Hahahahahahahahahaa!
whoopdeeeffingdoo
did you forget to take your meds?
MUCH better looking.
Fix your crappy mobile site (and the new exciting alpha desktop version, come to that), and spend less time on this nonsense. Thanks!
This is up there with the Jane Barbie and Pat Fleet stories.
Time Bomber the Book coming soon.
I knew it wouldn't turn out to be some fat cow with a nice voice, because Apple was involved and they knew that she would step forward eventually.
And CNN is 48 hours behind facebook.
Which means that anything I see on Facebook is reported by Slashdot a week late. Holy fracking catfish, it's time to stop coming to this website.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
I'm french .. Siri's voice is undoubtly male. are you sure about this Susan being siri's voice ?
Why would we want to know this?
I don't know, how many of you are there?
Ezekiel 23:20
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Hmmm it's text to speech. It's a computer generated voice so that an unlimited number of phrases can be spoken rather than a pre-recorded list of English words (and other languages).
So, does Susan really mean that her voice was picked apart and her phonemes were sampled and are being used for Siri's American English female voice? Phonemes are the basic building blocks of human speech (e.g. ah, eh, oh, ffff, etc)
Almost all Australian media incorrectly reported the name too. We use a different voice in Australia. This article was a fail on more than one level. News for Nerds being another
Finally, a face to my best friend and who I always ask to marry me.
So is she like that voice actor for that video game who was all upset and making a stink for not being as rich as a movie star?
Sorry for the lack of details. I can't be bothered by looking up specifics.
If Apple related news are of no interest, why do they generate tons of posts claiming no one is interested in them? My suggestion, just ignore them.
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I don't know, how many of you are there?
"My precious, it make-es the beautiful sounds!"
Eh, on second thought, I was going for facetious there, but it came out a little too close to what I've seen...
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Who's "Siri"?
I'm glad this mystery has finally come to a close. I've had years of endless conversations (some actually broke out into fisticuffs) with co-workers about the likelihood that Siri was simply a generic wave form generated on a 1973 Rowland 385x tube synth (I love my old Rowland!!!1). One co-worker (Bryhan) argued that he could actually hear the pitch-shift in one of the particular tones of Siri's condescending passages suggesting it was in fact a male voice with some clever over-dubbing from magnetic tape (backwards). I've wondered about this for years and have lost much sleep over it. So glad it's finally came to light. Take that Bryhan, you insensitive clod!
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Hour after hour, she read nonsensical phrases and sentences so that the "ubergeeks" -- as she affectionately calls them; they leave her awestruck -- could work their magic by pulling out vowels, consonants, syllables and diphthongs, and playing with her pitch and speed.
a better clip:
http://www.wimp.com/voicesiri/
coming from the article:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/17/4596374/machine-language-how-siri-found-its-voice
What a disappointment, eh?
But she looks nothing like Jon Briggs?
yeah
But who on slashdot thinks a short interview with Saki Fujita (Hatsune Miku) would be interesting?
*Kicks feet up* Slow news day.
For those who seek perfection there can be no rest on this side of the grave.
She doesn't have a real keyboard. I don't think it's turning out too well for her.
meet cassie.... http://www.tv.com/shows/crash-and-bernstein/crash-asks-too-many-questions-2875426/
at any rate, i hope bennett gets some extra compensation out of this. if scansoft aka nuance had the contract with apple prior to contracting bennett for the voice work, then bennett got ripped-off big time with the hourly rate contract (similar to how scp and tim paterson got screwed by bill gates and microsoft)... had that contract (or scp's) been negotiated with knowledge the voice (dos) would be used in apple's phones (ibm pc's), there would most definitely have been royalties included in the negotiated compensation.
Purportedly has been replaced by a younger person in iOS 7.
Just hope it wasn't Miley, else your new phone may start twerking on your ear!
America supplied more of the troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy than any other Allied country, and we built the bomb before the Germans did. You're welcome.
She must be a geocacher.
The Germans were already beaten by the time any Americans got there, but thanks for taking care of the few leftover stragglers.
And "the bomb", to use your common parlance, was primarily developed in Britain.
Define "we"... does that include the defected German scientists?
Look up the V2 and the history of NASA...
Welcome to another general news site? You mean you haven't noticed what slashdot has become? We even got to learn about Sandra Bullock's new movie on slashdot. If you want the old slashdot you'll have to go back about 10 years or so in your browser cache... Me I'm just here because I'm too lazy to look for somewhere else, and some of the trolls are kinda funny.
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She must be really busy. How does she find time to do anything else?
Kriston
It depends on whether or not he has taken his medication today?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Be thankful to the French, they saved your ass from the muslims in 732 AD. How far back do you want to go?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Pure milf.
We found out here
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I don't know why you clicked on the link if you're not interested.
Because although I am not interested in the story, I am interested to see how people react to it. :P
She must sound very robotic in person. Either that, or the engineers that pieced together the phenomes did a very mediocre job. So far, the best text-to-speech synthesis I have heard comes from a recent update of Android. The pronunciation has improved significantly and the tone sounds much more relaxed and less stinted than the previous Android version as well as Siri.
Not what I was expecting. Raj meets Siri
These kinds of stories have been on /. for a long time. That's why comments of the form "this isn't news for nerds" are such a cliche.
We use a different voice in Australia.
Maybe Susan's really good with accents?
The Soviets and Brits won World War II. The USA didn't do anything but come in at the very end and kick some people who were already down.
The Brits, Canucks & Aussies did play a minor part, but essentially Germany was defeated by Soviet ground troops and American bombs. Take those two out of the equation and "the West" would have had to rely on the Germans to defeat themselves (as the regime was busily doing).
The Germans were already beaten by the time any Americans got there, but thanks for taking care of the few leftover stragglers.
Nonsense. Germany was at its largest in October 1942. Germany had almost defeated the world before the Americans got there. Sure by the time Normandy happened the German situation had deteriorated due to the serious inroads made by the Red Army on the Eastern Front and the saturation bombing of Germany by both British and increasingly American air power.
And even after Normandy "taking care of a few leftover stragglers" was a little tougher than anything you or I have ever experienced (and I have that on good authority, my father having been one the the stragglers).
Disclaimer: I'm not American, or even pro-American.
it makes me want to jump off a cliff and shoot myself in midair to ensure death. I'm a straight male, and I use the male voice instead.
"For four hours a day, every day, in July 2005"
I'm sorry to say that your education was revisionist and wrong. The truth is the USA did nothing in WWII. That is a fact, no matter how much your American puppet masters try to say otherwise.
America did nothing to the German numbers. Just take a look at the deaths on the east and west front. Over 4 million German deaths on the eastern front and not even 1 million on the western front. Those 4 million were killed by the Soviets alone. The less than 1 million were killed by multiple countries, with the USA killing maybe a couple thousand.
Again, America didn't do shit. Quit with your revisionist, American propaganda.