It's always stories about how we got lost and the time we recalculated.' 'But I have to say just about every time I meet someone there is that level of familiarity, like I'm a member of their family or someone close to them. World famous: Karen's voice can be heard on Apple iPhones when listening to Siri and on GPS systems around the world 'I was the last person in the world to get an iPhone,' she laughed. 'I've been asked to speak at events about women in technology - but I am literally just a woman in technology not someone that knows loads about it. Karen admitted she didn't even know what a GPS was in 2004, let alone how her voice had been used for it. 'I was back in Australia for Christmas and a friend called me and left me a voicemail message saying "my husband and I are driving back to Maine and we turned the Australian voice on our GPS on - and it was you, you directed us back to New York".' It wasn't until a couple of years later, in 2004, that she found out what the recordings were being used for, during a surprising phone call from a friend. 'I'd record from 9-1pm, have lunch and go back to the hotel and write songs,' she said. She recorded 50 hours of instructions, with her time in the studio being broken up into four hours a day over three weeks so that her voice didn't get tired. When Karen pitched up for the audition all she knew was it was for a 'text-speech system'. She decided to finally up sticks to the Big Apple when she noticed a lot of people close to her 'were making big plans in their life'.īig Apple: Karen left her hometown of Mackay (left) behind and boarded a plane to New York(right) with just one suitcase and 'big dreams' in 2000
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Next she moved to Sydney, where she worked in the piano bars of five star hotels and made her musical theatre debut in the original Australian cast of Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story.Īfter ten years working in Sydney, she said: 'You couldn't turn the TV on in the 1990s without hearing my voice on the TV or radio in Australia.'īut Karen was still harbouring her big dream - to move to America. all those years of piano lessons,' she added.Īfter spending her childhood in Mackay, Karen moved to Brisbane to study music at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. but I was very clear all along that my life was going to be about music,' she said, speaking from the place she now calls home - Manhattan, New York. 'Some of them said "she'll grow out of it". Karen, who played the lead in her school shows growing up in Mackay, told her parents and 'everyone who would listen' of her ambitious plans. She watched her blonde-haired Australian icon Olivia Newton-John on TV in America, saw how successful she was, and thought: 'I want to be a singer and move to America.' View complete list.Big dreamer: From the age of seven, growing up in Mackay, a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Karen had dreams of making it in America Some features may not be available for all countries or all areas.Some features require apps to be developed with SiriKit.Siri features and capabilities vary by device.Siri may not be available in all languages or in all areas, and features may vary by area. Siri is available on iPhone 4s or later, iPad Pro, iPad (3rd generation or later), iPad Air or later, iPad mini or later, and iPod touch (5th generation or later) and requires internet access.Siri Suggestions for Shortcuts are supported on iPhone 6s or later, iPad Pro, iPad (5th generation or later), iPad Air 2 or later, and iPad mini 4 or later.Works with AirPods (2nd generation), AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max.Not supported on first-generation iPad, iPad 2, and first-generation iPad mini.
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