Siri Voice Actress Doesn't Use Siri (huffingtonpost.com) 82
An anonymous coward writes: Susan Bennett, the actress who provided the voice of Apple's Siri assistant, says she "doesn't really" use Siri herself. "It's too weird," she says in a new interview. While she uses many Apple products, "I'm used to hearing my voice on radio and TV commercials and that sort of thing, but to hear my own voice coming out of this little computer phone is too strange."
Bennett says she recorded every sound combination in the English language one fateful July in 2005, working five days a week, four hours a day, but didn't know it was for Siri until six years later, in 2011, when another voice actor e-mailed,"Hey, we're playing around with this new iPhone. Isn't this you?" Bennett says she was "kind of horrified, because I hadn't been told... On the other hand, I was extremely flattered." In the interview she also says she felt "dissed" when Siri answered one of her first questions, "What are you doing," with a disgusted "I'm talking to you..." Although on her personal web site, Bennett shares a recording of herself being interviewed by Siri.
Bennett says she recorded every sound combination in the English language one fateful July in 2005, working five days a week, four hours a day, but didn't know it was for Siri until six years later, in 2011, when another voice actor e-mailed,"Hey, we're playing around with this new iPhone. Isn't this you?" Bennett says she was "kind of horrified, because I hadn't been told... On the other hand, I was extremely flattered." In the interview she also says she felt "dissed" when Siri answered one of her first questions, "What are you doing," with a disgusted "I'm talking to you..." Although on her personal web site, Bennett shares a recording of herself being interviewed by Siri.
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When your parents make all your decisions for you and hold your hand every step of the way you might glean a false sense of security from this. Of course this is unfavorable to critical thinking adults as we realize the added security is mostly emotional, false, and only ever as good as the parent providing it. Apple people like to endlessly brag that their babysat user experience comes with added security. Not only is this erroneous, but it relies on the ridiculous assumption that an American for-profit company will always have their customers best interest in mind - over their employees, their country, their shareholders, and their profits. Adorable, but not surprising - people that purchase Apple products aren't known for their intelligence, solid ideals, or proficiency with logic.
And they say Apple users have a Superiority Complex (rolls eyes)...
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And they say Apple users have a Superiority Complex (rolls eyes)...
They do. More-so they have a very acute level of post purchase rationalisation. This is true with any expensive purchase where the added price is mostly due to brand though (ie. designer clothing). Case and point: your last comment. Your post purchase rationalisation is so high that you try to diffuse a difficult truth with adolescent dismissal. Judging from your username you've made this company a pretty big part of your identity though, so I'd imagine you have even more emotionally at stake than your run-
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And they say Apple users have a Superiority Complex (rolls eyes)...
They do. More-so they have a very acute level of post purchase rationalisation. This is true with any expensive purchase where the added price is mostly due to brand though (ie. designer clothing). Case and point: your last comment. Your post purchase rationalisation is so high that you try to diffuse a difficult truth with adolescent dismissal. Judging from your username you've made this company a pretty big part of your identity though, so I'd imagine you have even more emotionally at stake than your run-of-the-mill fanboy.
Yeahrigtsure. An ad Hominem attack based on my username. Do you have any idea how UN-original that is?
Listen, Bub: I happen to write Windows Application software for a living; so I think I have some breadth of Platform Experience. I am also a CERTIFIED MS SQL four DECADES.
And you really think that Apple owners are the only ones who think their platform-choice is the best? That's human-nature, you ignorant fucktard!
Oh, and it's "Case IN Point"; but I'll excuse that if English is not your first langua
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Slashdot somehow ate that, sorry.
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Not to reply to my own post; but I meant to say "I am a Certified MS SQL Server Admin
It wasn't relevant anyways. Argument from authority, baseless insults with strong language, grammar attacks, arguing off point - I've already won.
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https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]
Like there isn't any malware for the iPhone. What kind of shill calls out a competitor for something that plagues their product just as much?
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https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]
Like there isn't any malware for the iPhone. What kind of shill calls out a competitor for something that plagues their product just as much?
1. In NO way is the iOS Malware list "Just as much" as the Android list.
2. If you look at the list you linked-to, nearly every single entry except possibly 3 of them, requires either a Jailbroken iPhone, an "Enterprise Certificate" download, or the explicit and knowing consent to install (like the various "parental keyloggers"). None of those count, period.
Now, do you want to compare that list with a similar one for Android? Didn't think so...
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Ok, your point would be? All of the Android malware you read about requires intentional side loading of other app stores, which is pretty much exactly the same thing you just said about the iPhone...amazing..
When malware is found in the Google app store, it is nuked. Very rarely does it ever make it onto people's phones, but let's hold Google accountable for every exploit, but totally ignore that Apple has the same problem yet again!
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Wow, funny, I didn't have to look far to even expose what you said as incorrect:
http://www.computerworld.com/a... [computerworld.com]
-Comes from the official app store
-Does not require a jailbroken phone
-Enterprise certificates are not security, it only costs $299 to get one, or just steal one to abuse
Another
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/... [macrumors.com]
-came in through the official app store
-phished user credentials
-doesn't require jailbroken phones
-used the developer's own cert, so no cert required
http://researchcenter.paloalto... [paloaltonetworks.com]
Another
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Re:doesn't Siri use a male voice? (Score:4, Funny)
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Except for Girl Scouts, which have cookies.
I was in Boy Scouts for a while. But they kicked me out for eating a Brownie.
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feeeemales
Why do you latch on to this? You don't have a problem with describing men as males. Once again, we see the feminists hard at work. You've found a perfectly reprehensible thing in space opera/science fiction with the Ferengis, and now you wish to project that on all of us who have no interest in dating your cisfemale hunnies.
Well, keep 'em!
how does it feel to be having so little sex
Not AC this time, but I have plenty of sex. You wouldn't believe how much sex I have. I have sex with all kinds of men. Very well hung men. Very, very well hung. I
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Let's see. How can I burn karma today?
Your first 3 points are tenuous. Please study gender going back to the microbes that, in the words of the late Sagan, "stumbled upon it." I happen to be an expert both from book learnin' and the school of hard knocks, but between the Apache attack copters, Lyin' Ted, and the feminists, nobody seems willing to listen to me.
- Feminism was responsible for the alcohol prohibition and is responsible for the cannabis prohibition. Watch Ken Burns' documentary Prohibition i
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How can I burn karma today?
Effectively.
nobody seems willing to listen to me.
I cannot imagine why.
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*golf clap*
Nicely done! What an eloquent point!
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What an eloquent point!
It would have helped if you made a less rambling point. Apache attack helicopters? WTF?
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I'm glad to know the Apache attack copter thing has returned to obscurity or else was pretty obscure to begin with. Know your meme link [knowyourmeme.com]. It was a ridiculous criticism of transfemale identities. (As usual, it ignores the existence of transmen.)
For a moment, I was afraid that Lyin' Ted had something that resonated with thinking people like yourself. Of course it doesn't. How could it? I mean, Lyin' Ted didn't invoke the "Apache attack copter" thing specifically, not that I'm aware of. I more use it in
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I'm glad to know the Apache attack copter thing has returned to obscurity or else was pretty obscure to begin with. Know your meme link. It was a ridiculous criticism of transfemale identities. (As usual, it ignores the existence of transmen.)
You were referring to *that* meme?? Oh boy have you ever misunderstood it. You seem to be convinced everything is an attack on you. If you're able to keep an open mind, I can tell you my interpretation of wht it's about. If not, I won't bother.
For a moment, I was afrai
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Oh are so wrong on so many counts that it is just plain silly.
Alcohol Prohibition was driven by the religious, and guess what those with deep religious beliefs, (extreme christians and muslims) have prohibitions on Alcohol.
The bathroom rapists thing is also driven by christians and their religion. hating anything who doesn't fit their world view. Now that isn't to say that all christians are that way. The simple fact is those laws, also prevent a father from taking his 3 year old daughter, or a mother ta
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You're not incorrect, that's for sure. Somebody throw this person a mod point!
Yes, the women pay women less thing is probably quite similar to genital mutilation and the example you give of the 1960's Catholic school. Abuse is self-perpetuating. Muslim women want to mutilate their daughters' genitals. Protestant men want to mutilate their sons' genitals.
Where it gets fun is when feminists blame people whose genitals were mutilated at birth, like me, for what some Muslim woman thousands of miles away wan
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In the more civilized regions of this world where women serve men the voice is female because that's the default servant gender, that's what nature designed the genders for.
In the regions where the feminists have taken over control and restrict how people live the voice is female because everything has to be female.
In the regions in between, the voice is male because the feminists have infected society harmfully enough that the man is the default servant gender there.
Of course, in the regions the feminists have their tight and grip over the servant gender is still male, but the woman gets labeled as the servant gender, as a justification for higher pay for the women and even more work for the men. See the barbie book about barbie being a computer scientist as an example feminist utopy (of course depicting the truth and without the treacherous feminist distortion of facts and therefore anti-feminist).
It's a user preference setting, retard.
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Why isn't there a "-1 fucking crybaby" mod?
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on other people's ipwnes Siri is always male.
Is that a region specific thing?
Yes, it is region specific. In America, female voices have traditionally been used for automated announcements, phone menus, etc. So that is what people are used to. In many other countries (including, I believe, Britain and France), these voices have traditionally been male, and a male voice is the default for Siri as well.
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No, in Europe most voices are female.
E.g. Metro in Paris etc.
However plenty of companies, like metros, use both genders for voices.
My Siri only has a female voice anyway and speaks/understands only english as far as I know.
In Europe Siri is close to useless anyway as it only works via the internet. And no one with a sane mind is using internet via a phone outside of his own country. It is just retardedly expensive.
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In Europe Siri is close to useless anyway as it only works via the internet. And no one with a sane mind is using internet via a phone outside of his own country. It is just retardedly expensive.
That is going to change in mid-June 2017: https://eu2015.lv/news/media-r... [eu2015.lv]
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Not having any crApple products I can't be sure, but on other people's ipwnes Siri is always male.
Is that a region specific thing?
Nit that you deserve a reply; but Siri's gender is a User Preference setting.
She knows that she can change the voice, right? (Score:2)
There are several voices to choose from now. Odds are that nobody showed her how to change it.
*Nix syndrome (Score:2)
Well this takes the prize -- it is the luser's fault for not knowing how to change a default configuration. Again, always, and evermore.
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Probably, but since she doesn't use Siri...
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It's an Apple product. You need a PhD to figure out that anything is configurable.
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Likely depending on the iOS version.
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Um, sorry to be critical, but is your email really an @geocities.com address?
I'm embarrassed to admit that I used AOL until 1993.
Just two months ago, all Verizon FiOS customers were switched to @aol.com email. Or was it @yahoo.com? I forget, because I don't use it.
My email is not tied to any one host, provider or employer. I've had the same core address (with a plethora of aliases) for 15+ years, and plan to keep it that way. If that changes, I will simply switch to my own VPS, hosting my own email serv
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I do wonder how much she was paid, undoubtedly signed a non-disclosure agreement, so we will undoubtedly never know. I wonder if it was scale, and if she gets any residuals, I'm sure not. But if she did, she would be sitting pretty. There was a posting for a siri like job the other day on a no-union VO site for a Microsoft "siri-like" application for an automotive application. It was a buy-out for if I remember correctly, for around 35k.
Voice assistance ... (Score:2)
is currently nothing more than a gimmick.
News at 11.
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It is mostly a gimmick, but there are some legitimate use cases. Like for instance dictating text messages while you're driving, like if you're going to be a few minutes late. One could argue that you could just as easily call directly, but there are bound to be some cases where that's not practical.
I can also go "OK Google, play Iron Maiden on Google Play Music" (or Spotify or whichever service you use), and it's a bit faster than navigating through the app to find the artist in question to start a random
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Actually, for some reason I find voice actors much more interesting people than regular actors. They tend to be funnier, quirkier, a bit more self-effacing.
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Didn't you know? She is real as is the blood in the shooter games. It is the human blood the third world has to send to us to appease our fire demons. Otherwise we command the demons to burn their huts! That's what the world bank is really for. Its the world human blood bank. There is no hunger deaths in Africa. Africa is rich in resources, nobody starves there. Hunger only serves as cover story for the giant conspiracy that happens here. There is starving yes, but that affects only a dozen people or so, they are shown in the media whenever the third world has to hand over its next shipment. The blood goes to the shooters, the organs immortalize the inhabitants of an utopic moon colony, the people who really rule this world!
Quoting the whole comment... because reasons. I see somebody else potentially gets it, the full scope of the system of control here. Or perhaps you're just regurgitating David Icke, who, as far as I can tell, is a lizard person operative, a part of the real system of control meant to shut us down, at a subconscious level, when we get close to understanding what's really happening in the world. After all, I mean, lizard people from outer space! ROFL amirite? Moon matrix lol! Must be loony tunes!
When I
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herself (Score:2)
uh... you can change the Siri voice?
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Why would someone get a per-device royalty for talking into a microphone for a couple of weeks? Do the icon designers get a per-device cut? Do the programmers? The industrial design guys?
If you want a per-device cut, go out and design and build your own device.
Sound about right (Score:2)
I've yet to find any voice assistant worth using. Google, Siri, Alexa, doesn't matter. I have no use for them.
huh (Score:2)
I've used Siri every day since it went online, and I've never heard this woman's voice before.