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Tim Cook's first product reveal, and the marquee feature is based around voice recognition. Heaven help him.
by mortenjorck 15y ago
Tim Cook's first product reveal, and the marquee feature is based around voice recognition.
Heaven help him.
- wanorris 15y agoIf anyone can convince the mass market that they care about a voice interface, it's Apple. But there are some things not even Apple can do, and I suspect this may be one of them.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoThe mass market already cares about voice-to-text, it's heavily used by Android users (according to the Google-provided data).
- andrewljohnson 15y agoTrue fact. Voice search on Android works flawlessly and I use it all the time in the car.
- tadfisher 15y agoExcept for the 30-something-item-long "Did you mean" list that forces me to look at and physically manipulate the phone, it works amazingly well.
- drats 15y agoUnfortunately that won't stop Apple from being credited with inventing/popularizing it.
- gurkendoktor 15y agoHasn't exactly that feature already somehow failed with the iPod Shuffle, which has physical buttons again? I haven't bought or ever seen that device or the 4th gen successor to make a hands-on judgment. But it seemed like a step back from VoiceOver from the outside. (I loved my 2nd gen Shuffle!)
- ugh 15y agoThe iPod shuffle has nothing whatsoever to do with voice control. Edit: That is actually factually true. Not sure why some seem to think otherwise.
- Danny72 15y agoThe 4th gen Shuffle is the 2nd gen, but slightly smaller and with the VoiceOver technology. If you loved the 2nd gen, you'll love it.
- duskwuff 15y agoVoiceOver is purely text-to-speech, not speech recognition or speech-to-text.
- dave1619 15y agoGoogle/Android was first to market with systemwide voice-to-text. But Apple won't disappoint. I expect Apple's Assistant to be pretty impressive.
- ugh 15y agoAndroid users seem to like their voice recognition features. If Apple can deliver that kind of quality I don’t see a problem.