Her career started with music. From then on, she did hundreds of commercial jingles (famously, Tillie the All-Time Teller for the first successful ATM in the US) and sang backup vocals on tour with Burt Bacharach and Roy Orbison. She got into voiceover and acting work at Doppler Studios in Atlanta, when the voice actor hired for a particular commercial didn't show up, and studio owner Pete Caldwell suggested she do the spot instead. She ended up doing spots for Coca-Cola, IBM, Papa John's Pizza, McDonald's, AT&T, Wendy's, Goodyear, Ford, Chiquita, etc., for both radio and TV. She also ended up working on camera for such clients as Morrison's, Ford, GA Pacific, IBM, Kimberly Clark, etc. But she’s Best known as the original VOICE OF SIRI. 00:00 Introduction 00:18 Our Guest 01:18 Her background 03:01 How Apple Took Her Voice 04:55 Remaining positive 05:16 Working with Roy Orbison 06:55 Perfect Pitch 07:40 Learning to play the Piano 08:40 How Siri affected her career 09:31 A Siri-like voice 10:07 Future acting jobs 11:45 Are you tech-savvy? 12:33 Remaining Positive 14:44 AI taking over voice work 16:53 Have you ever not been selected as the voice of Siri? 18:18 Hire Susan for your speaker events 19:00 A message to anyone in Tech ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To learn more about Susan or to hire her for your next event, visit https://susancbennett.com/ To learn more about Dark Rhino Security visit https://www.darkrhinosecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIAL MEDIA: Stay connected with us on our social media pages where we'll give you snippets, alerts for new podcasts, and even behind the scenes of our studio! Instagram: @securityconfidential and @OfficialDarkRhinoSecurity Facebook: @Dark-Rhino-Security-Inc Twitter: @darkrhinosec LinkedIn: @dark-rhino-security Youtube: @Dark Rhino Security ​ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- #darkrhinosecurity #securityconfidential #cybersecurity #cyberpodcast #ai #artificialintelligence #securitypodcast #cybernews #technews #techsoftware #informationtechnology #infosec #cybersecurityforbeginners #technewstoday #Voicework #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGstrike #Actorstrike #Siri #voiceacting #appleceo #susancbennett #susanbennett #mcdonalds #voicecloning ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Photos used: McDonald's logo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/neeky_b/24814690583 Coca-Cola logo: Viktaur, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons