The Woman Behind Siri's Voice Reveals Herself: 'It's Kinda Creepy'
LatestOne of the world’s greatest, most enduring mysteries has finally been solved. No, we haven’t figured out what Stonehenge is for, how the pyramids were built, who really killed JFK, what caused the Bloop, the identity of the man in the Taman Shud case, or why Jennifer Aniston keeps getting roles in major studio films — we’ve discovered the real identity of Siri. She’s a voice actor named Susan Bennett, and, just like you and me, she’s a little weirded out by Siri.
Bennett revealed her Siri-dom to CNN, explaining that the voice we now know as the slightly exasperated-sounding know-it-all who lives inside our iPhones was birthed during a month of recording sessions in July of 2005. The veteran voice actor, who has been the voice of ATMs and those GPS machines that cab drivers rely on, had no idea that her voice would be digitally chopped up and reassembled into Siri; she found out when an iPhone-owning friend informed her that Apple’s new fancy automated question-answering assistant sounded a heckuva lot like Bennett. Unsurprisingly, that was weird for her.