Who Is Apple Siri Voice? Atlanta Actress Susan Bennett Revealed As Original US Voice [VIDEO]

CNN has finally found the real person who voices Apple's iOS automated personal assistant, Siri. Atlanta resident and veteran voice actress Susan Bennett revealed in an interview with CNN that she is indeed the Siri voice for Apple's iOS devices. Apple has yet to confirm if the information is true but in the interview professionals within the technology industry said they are familiar with her voice. Also an audio forensics expert with 30 years' experience was cited being certain that Bennett's voice and the voice of Apple's digital personal assistant was the same.

The report claims back in 2005 Bennett and a software company named ScanSoft worked together for a new project. ScanSoft liked what they heard when working with Bennett and offered her a contract for her voice for recordings that would be used in a database to construct speech, which she signed. In October 2011 after the release of the iPhone 4S Bennett, who didn't have the phone, got a surprise when people who knew of her work heard her voice and let her know she was Siri! Bennett said, "A colleague e-mailed me [about Siri] and said, 'Hey, we've been playing around with this new Apple phone. Isn't this you?'" After hearing the voice Bennett undoubtedly knew it was her.

The report also states that a few new sites have mistakenly outed the voice of Siri like the feature titled Machine Language: How Siri Found Its Voice by tech news site The Verge. The tech site revealed another voice actor, Allison Dufty, was Siri.

Bennett revealed her feelings on coming out as the original Siri voice:

"I really had to weigh the importance of it for me personally. I wasn't sure that I wanted that notoriety, and I also wasn't sure where I stood legally. And so, consequently, I was very conservative about it for a long time," she said. "And then this Verge video came out ... And it seemed like everyone was clamoring to find out who the real voice behind Siri is, and so I thought, well, you know, what the heck? This is the time."

It seems that Bennett is no longer the voice of Siri as Apple has released a new refined version of Siri that is noticeably different than Bennett's.

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