“A pair of leaks Saturday night by well-known source Chronic pointed to both features buried inside iOS 5 as well as hints that the upcoming MacBook Air refresh could happen next week,” Electronista reports.
“Internal, Apple-only builds of iOS 5 have settings for ‘Nuance Dictation’ and ‘Nuance Long Endpoint,’ suggesting that the rumored Nuance voice recognition support thought to be coming at WWDC was just buried, not scrapped,” Electronista reports. “The approach is still mostly mysterious but is expected to use Apple’s acquisition of Siri to produce complex voice commands beyond what Voice Control did in 2009.”
Electronista reports, “Side-by-side with the iOS 5 code exploration is word that the MacBook Air revamp had been narrowed down to Wednesday. This was “100% confirmed,” Chronic wrote, although that was also the only information he had.”
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Common text-to-speech! “New text message from Sean Connery: ‘Suck it, Trebek!'”
Come on, text-to-speech*
iOS5 Autocorrect is more tyrannical than ever. (If you’re using it, try typing “can” lol)
Can
I know this it OT, but where the frick is Apple’s back to school sale?
August?
That’s way late for the U.S., but who knows….
When you buy a mac you get a iPod free after rebate fro back to school
Don’t know if I trust rumors about voices from someone named Chronic.
Update — “chronic” just withdrew the part about the MBAs. Says his source had the part numbers mixed up, it is only unlocked iPhones that are coming Wednesday. See his twitter post:
http://mobile.twitter.com/chronicwire
“CORRECTION: Source had mixed up part numbers, it is unlocked iPhones that will be headed to US Apple Stores for Wednesday, NOT MacBook Airs.
about 7 hours ago
Too bad about the MBA mixup. They appear to be coming soon though. In the market for one for my wife.