I believe that many people have spoken with Apple’s Siri and ask it some hilarious questions and it can always give they some reasonable answers in human voice. Have you every wondered why it can answer you in a human mind and even human voice. Maybe some people may think that Apple company has a big database that already includes all the possible answers to different types of questions. And when a question is asked, the Siri, the smart system is going to find the most similar question with the most reasonable answer to that question and output it. However, why is it able to answer questions in human voice instead of robotic voice. Does someone already record all the possible answers in voice ahead? Therefore, in this article, I am going to explore the reason why Siri is able to say everything in human voice.
There is no doubt that Siri needs a voice recorder if it wants to has human voice and Bennett is the voice recorder for Siri. It is extremely difficult to record voice for computerized voice like Siri because it requires some high technical pronunciation and people are not able to speak clear English for a long time. Therefore, it is impossible for one person to record everything in voice.
Actually, people use a technique called concatenated speech to create all possible sentences' voices by using sophisticated computer programs to create words and sentences from basic sounds. The computer programs will include all possible sound to assemble in every possible combination for every possible word. Therefore, voice actors have to to recite gibberish-like sentences that include all of the English language's different sounds. For example, when Bennett need to record an "s" sound — she doesn't just record "s". Instead of, she will record the varying "s" in words like"his","snakes". Eventually, the computer will stitch all the sounds together and make it naturalistic.
There is a video about Bennett's story with Siri and hope you guys can enjoy!
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Writing reference;
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8831131/siri-voiceover-susan-bennett
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This blog post is very interesting! Before I reading it, I just thought about how Siri answers user's questions. I never thought about why Siri can say in human voice. It is amazing that human's basic sounds can be assembled to words and sentences by computer program.
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