Apple has fixed Siri’s robotic voice to a human-like one, and you can hear the difference

Apple has fixed the way Siri speaks in a huge way since its release: from the robotic voice that we used to hear when the smart digital assistant was introduced to a much more pleasant, human-like voice in iOS 11.

How did Apple do it? It took a lot of deep learning algorithms and smart engineers to achieve that progress, and those engineers have just published a white-paper about the process over at Apple.com.

"Starting in iOS 10 and continuing with new features in iOS 11, we base Siri voices on deep learning. The resulting voices ...