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We were told that it was for a phone system and mostly what I had always done was ‘Thank you for calling. So this was a very big job and it ended up being text to speech. I was working for a company that I still work for actually and have worked for for many, many years, and we had just this gigantic project, and if you’re a freelance person it’s always a good thing to have a job. From what I understand, you had no idea you were recording the voice all iPhone users would recognize today, correct? Tell us a little bit about how you got the gig for Siri in 2005. Come over here and read this,’ and I went, ‘Oh yeah, I can do this.’ So, I took some vocal coaching and got an agent and started doing it.” So, there were four or six of us singing on a jingle and the voice-over talent didn’t show up, so the owner of the studio said, ‘Susan, you don’t have an accent. It wasn’t one person over-dubbing the way it’s done now mostly. This is back in the day - we won’t know the exact date but you can probably guess - when they used to do a lot of commercial jingles with actual real singers that would show up in the studio. How did you discover your talent for voice-over acting? I just thought, ‘You know I’m gonna try this music thing,’ so I ended up doing that and that just led to other things which eventually led into the voice-over world.” I started off with the idea of being a teacher and then I don’t know where the turning point came, but I got married out of college and we ended up moving to Atlanta from New England.

I had been a musician - I’ve been playing music since I was 4 and I was in bands during college, but I never really thought it would end up being a career.

“I don’t think I really knew exactly what I wanted to do.