Maybe you didn’t know this part of the story, but Siri is a real person, in fact, they are at least two real people!
Who is Siri in real life?
Millions of people interact daily with Siri, Apple’s voice assistant.
It is a female voice as a virtual assistant that we ask to remind us of our agenda, to find us information on a specific topic or to tell us what day it is.
That voice belongs to a real person, the Basque teacher Iratxe Gómez.
Iratxe Gómez, a native of Vitoria, Basque and an English teacher.
Her voice was included in the iPhone 5, as a result of an opportunity that presented itself by chance: “I was teaching in an academy and one day the mother of one of my students came looking for someone who could make recordings in Spanish and English for a service. telephone banking ”.
And so it became Siri, the voice of the iPhone in Spanish somewhat Basque and somewhat robotic.
Susan Bennett is the voice of Siri in English.
She is a dubbing and dubbing actress for different commercial uses from Atlanta, United States, who would have gone unnoticed if she had not given an interview to CNN to reveal that she is in charge of giving voice to Siri.
Siri is an application that allows you to dialogue with your iPad, requesting certain information and asking it to perform certain functions, since it works through voice recognition.
With Siri you don’t have to learn special commands to speak, as it understands colloquial language.
Siri, the world’s first application that works as a virtual personal assistant, was created by Adam Cheyer, pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, current Director of the Advanced Products and Research Group at VerticalNet.
It is a registered product of Siri INC., A technology company that grew out of SRI International, a non-profit research organization, where Cheyer worked as a computer engineer.
In 2010, Apple bought the company and Siri was incorporated into the iPhone.
On October 4, 2011 it was announced that Siri would be included in the iPhone 4S.
Among the qualities highlighted by the application’s marketing campaign, it is stated that Siri is able to adapt over time to the user’s personal preferences, personalizing searches on the web and performing certain tasks such as reserving a table at a restaurant or order a taxi.
Siri also has other functions, for example, it can sing (with robot voice), tell a story, predict the weather in the city or write WhatsApp messages.
Iratxe Gomez (Siri’s voice in Spanish)
Do you want to know more about Siri?
click here https://www.apple.com/siri/
