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Siri Voice Actress Doesn't Use Siri (huffingtonpost.com)
An anonymous coward writes: Susan Bennett, the actress who provided the voice of Apple's Siri assistant, says she "doesn't really" use Siri herself. "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.
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.
You could have just said "Girls have cooties" and spared us from your rant.
Actually, for some reason I find voice actors much more interesting people than regular actors. They tend to be funnier, quirkier, a bit more self-effacing.
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Except for Girl Scouts, which have cookies.
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Oh are so wrong on so many counts that it is just plain silly.
Alcohol Prohibition was driven by the religious, and guess what those with deep religious beliefs, (extreme christians and muslims) have prohibitions on Alcohol.
The bathroom rapists thing is also driven by christians and their religion. hating anything who doesn't fit their world view. Now that isn't to say that all christians are that way. The simple fact is those laws, also prevent a father from taking his 3 year old daughter, or a mother taking her young son to the bath room as well. Since in both cases someone is using a bathroom not of their own gender.
You do realize a female CEO had to struggle through a wage gap, and then forces it on those who come after as a matter of course right? The general rule is if I have to suffer through it you should have to too.
I have a coworker who believes kids today are soft because they don't get beaten and humiliated in class(1960's catholic school) like she had to go through. yet when pressed on how often she beats her grandson it is never.As she is a special flower and only other people should get beaten like she did.
Now Siri, and voice controls are okay sometimes. but I have yet to use voice control that works moderately well. For me sending a text with Siri or Ok google, takes 5 times longer than type it out. I don't have a computer with a mic and cortana so i haven't tried her yet, but expect similar results.
Simple because I am already on the next problem by the time any of them have run the first verification let alone the 3rd required for sending.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.