The company changed Siri’s voice with the introduction of iOS 7. The company has remained silent despite repeated queries by various publications. Apple wont comment, but other sources - including an audio forensic expert - confirm this. Jacobsen and Briggs too had to waive off their rights to their voice.īennett, Jacobson and Briggs remain the unsung heroes behind Apple’s Siri. Susan Bennett says she is the voice of the original U.S. He told the Telegraph that he did a set of recordings, nearly five thousand sentences over a period of three weeks, with the company. Soon users took Siri’s voice for granted, and no one really thought much about the person behind the voice until last September, when CNN approached Bennett and she confirmed the suspicion. Jacobsen became the default voice for Siri on all Apple devices in Australia.Īs far is Briggs is concerned, he was British tech journalist who accidentally ventured into the voice-over work when he recorded ‘Daniel’ for Scansoft, a company that merged with Nuance Communications in 2005, the company that helped Apple in creating Siri. When Apple introduced the iPhone 4S in 2011, Siri was one of its hot new features. According to a report in ABC news, she was pursuing her dream in New York when she got a call from a client who was looking an Australian voice-over artist in the US. Unlike Bennett, Jacobsen, who is known as the GPS girl in Australia, auditioned for the role. Interestingly, it wasn’t until October 2011 when a fellow voice artist called up Bennett to point out that she was the voice in the newly launched iPhone. Since she had signed a non-disclosure agreement with the company, she could never claim her rights as the voice behind Apple’s digital assistant. At the time, Bennett had no idea that her recordings with the Atlanta-based voice-recording company GM Voice would one day turn out to be the voice Apple’s, Siri. It all began in 2005, when the American voice-over artist and singer, Susan Bennett started spending four hours a day, five days a week for a month reading out random sentences. From waking you up in the morning and guiding you through those complicated city roads to responding to your silly chat messages with quirky replies, Siri has been there with you every step of the way ever since Apple launched iPhone 4s in October 2011.īut have you ever wondered who gave voice to Siri?Īccording to a Guardian report, the first generation of Siri had three voices– Susan Bennett, who voiced the American version of Siri, Jon Briggs the British Siri and Karen Jacobsen, the Australian voice Siri. It’s not only the voice behind one of the iconic mobile phones that pioneered the smartphone era but also the voice that has guided the iPhone loyalists for past 6 years. Apple’s voice-assistant Siri is as popular as the brand itself.
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