![]() Mostly, it confirmed that his team at Apple has spent the last few years on the right project: making Siri sound more human. ![]() "It was not robotic!" This hardly counts as a revelation for Acero. When I ask Acero what he learned about why the voice worked so well, he laughs because the answer is so obvious. Acero was trying to discern what about Samantha could make someone fall in love without ever seeing her. He paid attention to how she talked to Theodore Twombly, played by Joaquin Phoenix, and how Twombly talked back. ![]() Acero, the Apple executive in charge of the tech behind Siri, sat there with his eyes closed, listening to how Scarlett Johansson voiced her artificially intelligent character Samantha. The second time, he didn't watch the movie at all. The first time Alex Acero saw Her, he watched it like a normal person.
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