While it’s a nifty feature, it is pretty limited in what you could do with it.
We think limiting its use strictly to accessibility features is a missed opportunity.
How Does Apple Personal Voice Work?
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Here’s what we’d love to do with our personal voice (app developers take note).
Narration for Videos and Presentations
Not everyone is a great narrator.
It can be hard to speak consistently and clearly while reading from a script.
Conversely, it can be difficult to formulate what you want to say off-the-cuff while speaking unscripted.
Sure, Personal Voice has yet to be perfected by Apple and can sound a bit robotic at times.
But in time, as the feature matures, it’s only going to become more convincing.
They don’t sound too good, and this can leave a bad impression.
It could also be used to make audio clearer on bad connections or in noisy environments.
This would fit well with Apple’s focus onuser privacy and security.
Live Translations
Perhaps the most obvious missed opportunity of the lot.
Talk into your phone, and have the Translate app spit out a live translation of your voice.
How cool would that be?
Convince your friends that you learned Finnish over the weekend!
The Personal Voice feature is kind of hidden in iOS and macOS, and hasn’t been widely advertised.
