REAL LIFE iPHONE'S SIRI IS REVEALED.....

SUSAN BENNETT

The woman behind the famous iPhone voice lost her own cellphone in New York City, leaving her stranded on Friday.
Susan Bennett, who claims to have provided the voice for ­Apple’s virtual assistant, misplaced the cell while traveling, her husband says.

“We had to report it lost or stolen. And she had to disable it,” hubby Rick Hinkle said.
“I’m not sure how to reach her. She’s in New York somewhere, but I don’t know where.”
She may have left the phone on a counter at an airport, he said.

The suburban Atlanta-based voice-over actress revealed herself on Friday as the voice of Siri.

When she recorded it, she had no clue her voice would one day help millions of people check the weather, map directions and learn useless facts, she told CNN.

For years, she was perfectly happy keeping her identity as Siri a secret, she said.

“I really had to weigh the importance of it for me personally. I wasn’t sure that I wanted that notoriety, and I also wasn’t sure where I stood legally,” she said.

But a video posted recently on the tech blog The Verge — which led people to believe the voice belonged to voice-over artist Allison Dufty— inspired her to reveal her identity, she said.

“I was very conservative about it for a long time. And then this Verge video came out . . . And it seemed like everyone was clamoring to find out who the real voice behind Siri is, and so I thought, ‘Well, you know, what the heck? This is the time,’ ” Bennett said.

Bennett began voice-over work in the ’70s and has been featured on commercials for McDonald’s, Macy’s and Delta Air Lines. She was also a backup singer for Rob Orbison, her Web site says.

Bennett claims she never knew exactly how her voice would be used when she agreed to work with Apple.

Released two weeks ago, Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 7, offers new Siri voices, bringing Bennett’s run as the country’s most famous female robot voice to an end.

Apple won’t confirm whether Bennett is the original voice of Siri, but sound experts say they are 100 percent sure it’s her.

It was unclear whether Bennett’s lost cell was an iPhone and what she was doing in the city.

She was expected to return home near Atlanta on Friday evening, Hinkle said.

The Siri phone feature was first released to the public on the iPhone 4S in October 2011.