Background
Bennett was born in Clinton, New York, and attended high school at Clinton Central School.
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In 1967, she enrolled in Pembroke College, but graduated in 1971 from Brown University after the two schools merged.
Career
She is best known for being the female American voice of Apple"s "Siri" since the service was introduced on the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011. While at Brown, Bennett concentrated her studies in the classics and intended to become a teacher. She performed in other groups as well, including one at the Berklee School of Music.
Bennett"s career began in 1974 when she was recorded as the voice of First National Bank of Atlanta"s "Tillie the All-Time Teller." She has recorded messages for the public address system in all Delta Air Lincolnshire terminals worldwide, as well as voicing e-learning software and Global Positioning System navigation software, and telephone systems
Bennett"s voice has also been used in numerous local and national television advertisements for Ford, Coca-Cola, Fisher-Price, McDonald"s, The Home Depot, Goodyear, VISA, Macy"s, Hot Pockets, Club Medical, and Cartoon Network, among others In June 2005, the software company ScanSoft was looking for someone to be the voice for a database project involving speech construction.
Scansoft reached out to General Motors Voices and picked Bennett, who happened to be present when the scheduled voice-over artist was absent. She worked in a home recording booth for the entire month of July 2005, more than four hours each day, reading phrases and sentences.
The recordings were then concatenated into the various words, sentences, and paragraphs used in the Siri voice.
Bennett only became aware she was the voice of Siri when a friend contacted her through email in October 2011. Despite Apple not having acknowledged and confirmed its use of Bennett, audio-forensics experts hired by Cable News Network expressed 100 percent certainty that Bennett is the voice of Siri. On January 26, 2012 in an episode of The Big Bang Theory called The Beta Test Initiation, a reference to the real voice of Siri was made, where a woman that was purportedly the "voice of Siri" appeared, played by Becky O"Donohue.
On the March 13, 2015 episode of Adult Swim"s The Jack and Triumph Show, titled "Siri", Bennett appeared as herself, and was referred to as the "voice of Siri".
Membership
She acted in Sock and Buskin theatrical productions, was a member of a jazz band, and was a singer with the "Chattertocks" a cappella group.
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