Siri’s UK voice answers questions on his journey to the iPhone 4S

The primary rule of being Siri is don’t discuss being Siri — but Jon Briggs, the voice of the iPhone helper’s British version, has, fittingly, has bucked that trend. Apple’s preference for mystery surrounding the problem hasn’t silenced the single-time tech journalist turned voice over actor who discovered that he was the voice of the 4S’s assistant upon hearing his “flat or even” readings played back on a commercial for the handset. Briggs told The Telegraph that he recorded the root for the British Siri 5 or 6 years ago, speaking some 5,000 sentences over the process three weeks for “a tight sum.”

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