DEVICES: It is easy to forget that, for all the fancy technology and its quirks ("Where is the beach" spoken in a British accent often being recognised as something VERY different!), Apple's Siri tool does have a human side - the voice. But picking the right voice and then applying it to the technology is no easy matter. Read more at CNN.

Behind the ground-breaking technology that is Apple's Siri voice recognition system there is a real woman.

While the ever-secretive Apple has never identified her, all signs indicate that the original voice of Siri in the United States is a voiceover actor who laid down recordings for a client eight years ago.

She had no idea she'd someday be speaking to more than 100 million people through a not-yet-invented phone.

So who is she and how did she end up as the voice on the end of so many devices as Siri?

Read more at CNN