GM Voices

{{Infobox company

| name = GM Voices, Inc.

| logo = GM_Voices_logo.svg

| type = Private

| foundation = 1985

| location = Alpharetta, Georgia

| industry = Telecommunications services

| homepage = [http://www.gmvoices.com/ www.gmvoices.com]

}}

GM Voices was a company and recording facility that specializes in voice prompts for IVR and automated phone applications, GPS, and telematics/remote diagnostics. Business presentation narration services are also offered. Currently, GM Voices provides recordings, translation, and language localization services in 100 languages and dialects.{{Cite web|url=http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/When-in-Rome...-66842.aspx|title=When in Rome...|last=Klie|first=Leonard|date=May 3, 2010|publisher=Speech Technology|accessdate=2010-07-28}}

GM Voices records prompt sets (replacement and custom recordings) for open source VoIP software like Asterisk and FreeSWITCH. GM Voices persona Callie is the official voice of FreeSWITCH.{{Cite web|url=http://www.freeswitch.org/node/267|title=ClueCon Update: "Callie" Is Coming to Chicago!|last=Collins|first=Michael|date=June 14, 2010|accessdate=2010-07-28}}

In June 2005, the software company ScanSoft was looking for someone to be the voice for a database project involving speech construction. ScanSoft inquired with GM Voices and selected Susan Bennett, who happened to be present when the scheduled voice-over artist was absent. {{cite news|journal=All Things Considered|publisher=National Public Radio via WNYC|title= Interview with Susan Bennett|date= December 9, 2013}} Bennett was hired and the project recordings would eventually be used as the original voice of Apple's Siri.{{cite news | first = Jessica | last = Ravitz | title = 'I'm the original voice of Siri' | date = 2013-10-04 | publisher = CNN | url = http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/04/tech/mobile/bennett-siri-iphone-voice/ | accessdate = 2013-10-04}}

On July 1, 2014, GM Voices became the official partner to source professional voice prompts for select Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories services including IVR.{{cite press release| title = GM Voices Becomes Official Genesys Technology Partner | date = July 1, 2014 | url = https://www.prweb.com/releases/gm_voices_becomes_official_genesys_technology_partner/prweb11976509.htm }}

They own an 18,000 sq foot facility with three studio control rooms, two sound booths, conference rooms and a selection of editing suites and offices where they accomplish most of their voice work.{{Cite web | url=http://www.gmvoices.com/about/our-facility/ | title=Welcome to GM Voices! | GM Voices}}

Automated gate agent announcements for Delta Air Lines are prerecorded by GM Voices.{{cite news

| title = Selling Golden Voices, An Entrepreneur Gets a Lesson in Technology

| date = February 19, 1999

| pages = B1

| newspaper = The Wall Street Journal

| author = Thomas Petzinger Jr.

}}

In June 2021, GM Voices was acquired by BLEND.{{cite news |title=BLEND acquires GM Voices, the company that recorded Siri |url=https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3910060,00.html |website=CTECH - www.calcalistech.com |date=16 June 2021}}