Sunday, November 13, 2011

Say hello to Jon Briggs, not Siri

Thousands of UK iPhone 4S users are enjoying Siri, the device’s smooth-talking computer assistant – but now it’s been revealed that the man behind the voice is The Weakest Link's announcer Jon Briggs.

Apple been telling him not to talk about Siri but he could not hold the fame

He recorded the words for Siri around five to six years ago for a software company called Scansoft, who sold them to Apple.

Good to talk: The iPhone 4S comes with a 'virtual assistant' called Siri, which is voiced by Jon Briggs from The Weakest Link

‘Five thousand sentences over three weeks, spoken in a very particular way and only reading flat and even. Then they go away and take all the phonics apart, because I have to be able to read anything you want, even if I’ve never actually recorded all those words.’ said Jon Briggs

He admits that he is a huge fan of Apple and loves its products.

Briggs has also appeared on Radio 2 and 4 and his voice can be heard on various TomTom satnav programmes.

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