Imagine if your voice became one of the most widely recognized voices in the world. I imagine myself sitting on a bus in a foreign country and the person next to me asks Siri a question. I would probably look at them knowing that they have not even a clue that was my voice coming out of their phone. I mean, why would they think anything of it?
Just the other day, I was holding my iPhone asking Siri ridiculous questions when the thought occurred... "whose voice is this?" Oddly enough, only two days later, a woman by the name of Susan Bennett stepped forward and talked to CNN about her experience as being one of the most widely recognized voices in the world.
When Susan recorded a series of recordings for one of her clients, being the voice of "Siri" was not something on her agenda. "The Siri voices were recorded in 2005 in the month of July, four hours a day for the whole month. When I recorded those voices, I had absolutely no idea where they would end up." Bennett said in the interview.
It was not until her friend had purchased the new iPhone and heard the voice of Siri and asked Susan "Isn't this you?" Siri is not the first place you might have heard Susan's voice. Susan's voice was also used for the first ATM machine, Tillie the All-time Teller. She was also a voice for Delta airlines, and many gps and telephone systems.
Now that I know Siri is a real voice, I'm constantly wondering who the people are that I see every day. Was that man at the stop sign the voice for the ads on my computer? Or maybe that woman at the mall owns the piano that was recorded for my keyboard. We never really know who the strangers are that we're sitting next to.
Because perhaps they are one of the most famous people in the world.
And you don't even know it.
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