It turns out that Siri, the now-iconic personal assistant whose voice iPhone users hear on a daily basis, was actually brought to life by a Georgia voiceover actress named Susan Bennett. The twist? According to a report from CNN, Bennett didn’t actually know her voice would make it into one of the biggest technology products of the 21st century until friends clued her in on the similarity between her voice and Siri’s.

How is that possible? In actuality, Bennett has never had any contact with Apple, nor did she record her voiceover samples for a specific product purpose. Back in 2005, she was one of the trusted contacts of an Atlanta-based company called GM Voices, which does sound work for automated voice technologies like GPS and enterprise phone systems. When a software company called ScanSoft got in touch with GM Voices, looking for new voiceover recordings for an unspecified project, Bennett was chosen, and went to work recording a wide range of words, phrases, and sentences that could then be synthesized into a cohesive computer language.

In 2011, when Siri arrived on Apple’s iPhone 4S, Bennett’s friends were playing around with the system and remarking on the similarity between the computerized voice and the voice of their friend. When Bennett went to Apple’s website to investigate her friends’ claims, she heard Siri’s voice and knew that it had been derived from her own voiceover recordings for the GM Voices/ScanSoft project.

Bennett kept quiet for a few years, but when bloggers and writers started wondering in September of this year who had supplied Siri’s voice, the voiceover actress decided to come forward. According to PC Magazine, the latest version of the iPhone operating system – iOS 7 – allows users the option to choose a different, male version of Siri. And if Bennett’s era as the smartphone industry’s most recognizable voice was coming to an end, she had little reason not to reveal her role in it all.

But where is the concrete proof? First of all, ScanSoft no longer exists in its previous form. It was purchased by a company called Nuance in the years following Bennett’s original recordings, which perhaps explains why those sessions never came to anything until 2011. But Nuance has an important role in the tech industry today: their servers power Siri.

Of course, all of that could be coincidence, and Apple and Nuance have both declined to comment on the subject of Bennett, leading to speculation as to whether or not the actress had any proof that she actually was the famous iPhone personal assistant. However, CNN did hire an audio forensics expert to confirm her story, and the result of the test, according to the expert, was a “100 percent match.”