Imagine the surprise of U.K. resident Jon Briggs when he turned on his TV, heard a commercial for the iPhone 4S personal assistant Siri, and heard his own voice responding to commands. Briggs had lent his voice to a company called Scansoft for its text-to-speech services, which were later purchased by Nuance and used to develop Siri. Briggs, a former technology journalist, “fell into” voiceover work, according to the Telegraph.
Briggs said that in his work for Scansoft, he recorded “5,000 sentences over three weeks, spoken in a very particular way and only reading flat and even.
Gadget Lab
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technologypulse, Voice of UK's Siri Is Now Speaking Out (to Apple's Chagrin)
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