We don't know if they are actually related, but we do know they were both created withouit using one single word. Susan Bennett had no idea at the time because the work she did was only one piece of a much bigger project.
In 2005, she was brought in to record a long list of phrases for a speech system, but no one told her what the audio would eventually become. The material she provided was meant for general text to speech development, and those recordings were later used to build the early version of Siri.
Since her part of the job was so far removed from the finished product, she didn’t realize her voice was on the iPhone until she heard it years later.
While Amazon has never officially confirmed the voice actor for Alexa, investigative research and reports identify her as Nina Rolle, a voiceover artist and singer based in Boulder, Colorado. She was reportedly selected after a months-long search, with her voice chosen for its warm and authoritative tone.
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