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Sounds like a storyboard artist who worked on the Ice Age movies.

Or a concept artist who's done work for Disney, Konami, and Warner Brothers.

Humanizing technology must go further than simply a name and a voice.

After using Google Maps on iOS with its soothing friendly speaker, I wouldn't mind a new voice actor for Siri. It's downright painful compared to GMaps'.

But her voice is iconic now, not unlike the voice of GLaDOS.

It could be tweaked without losing its recognizability. A new approach to better model the rhythm and pitch of conversational English could do wonders with the same exact voice. To say nothing of helping Siri generate conversational English.

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