Voice Behind UK Siri Voice "Daniel" Speaks Out

Several years ago, Jon Briggs took a voiceover job for a company called
Scansoft. Scansoft later merged with Nuance, which makes the voices that
Apple used for Siri.



Briggs tells the UK Telegraph:



“I did a set of recordings with Scansoft five or six
years ago, for text-to-speech services,” says Briggs. “Five thousand
sentences over three weeks, spoken in a very particular way and only