Meet the real woman behind the voice of Siri

WE'VE BEEN ASKING THE NAME QUESTIONS ALL MORNING LONG. I'LL ASK IT BECAUSE WE'RE DYING TO KNOW, SIRI, WHO IS THE VOICE OF SIRI? >> I AM THE VOICE OF SIRI. >> I COULD HAVE GOTTEN CHILLS. HER NAME IS SUSAN BENNETT. LET'S ASK HER QUESTIONS. WHY IS ONE FOOT LONGER THAN THE OTHER? SIRI, WHAT IS THE DRIVING TIME FROM NEW YORK TO L.A.? SIRI, ARE YOU HAPPY TO BE HERE THIS MORNING? >> I AM SEA SORRY, MICHAELA, I CANNOT ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS. >> REALLY COOL, WHAT A DELIGHT TO MEET. >> THANK YOU, NICE TO BE HERE. >> HOW LONG DID YOU GET THE VOICEOVER GIG FOR THE APPLE ICON? >> THIS HAPPENED IN 2005 BEFORE ANYONE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT AN iPHONE. I TAKE THAT BACK, STEVE JOBS SURE THOUGHT OF IT. THE ORIGINAL WERE TEXT TO SPEECH VOICES, WHOLE MONTH OF JULY 2005, I WAS SPEAKING ALL KINDS OF CRAZY SENTENCES. >> HOW MANY WORDS OR LINES DO YOU RECORD? I'VE ASKED SIRI ALMOST EVERYTHING AND GOTTEN A LOT OF DIFFERENT ANSWERS. >> PEOPLE THINK THEY CAME UP WITH THE PHRASES THAT SHE SPEAKS ORIGINALLY, BUT ORIGINALLY IT WAS JUST A BUNCH OF SENTENCES AND PHRASES THAT WERE CREATED SO THAT EVERY SINGLE COMBINATION OF VOWELS AND CONSONANTS AND SYLLABLES COULD BE SPOKEN. >> PIECED TOGETHER AND THIS IS SORT OF A TYPICAL WAY OF VOICEOVER YOU'RE A WORKING VOICEOVER ARTIST AND THESE ARE THE RECORDINGS THAT DO YOU. DID THIS ONE SEEM DIFFERENT? DID YOU HAVE A SENSE IT WOULD BECOME THE CULTURAL PHENOMENON OR CRUTCH? >> THIS WAS NOT TYPICAL BECAUSE I'VE MOSTLY DONE A LOT OF RADIO AND TELEVISION COMMERCIALS AND NARRATIONS AND ALL THAT KIND OF THING. NO, IT WAS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT. WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE TEXT-TO-SPEECH I DID SOMETHING FOR LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, AND THEY HAD ME WEARING THIS THING CALLED A LARYGIOGRAPH THAT WAS AROUND MY NECK. >> SOUNDS TERRIBLE. >> I FOUND IS FASCINATING, I SAID I'M IN. LUCENT WENT AWAY AND THAT NEVER HAPPENED BUT EVENTUALLY THEY DID THE TEXT-TO-SPEECH AND OF COURSE BACK IN THAT DAY WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY CLUE BACK THEN IT SOUNDED LIKE THIS, IT WAS ROBOTIC AND HARD TO IMAGINE THAT IN JUST SIX YEARS IT WOULD HAVE SMOOTHED OUT TO THE POINT THAT -- >> HOW OFTEN DO YOU

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Length: 2min 33sec (153 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 04 2013