“Apple wants Siri, its personal digital assistant, to be able to respond to your input with a whisper,” Dennis Sellers reports for Apple World Today. “The company has filed for a patent (number 201922666) for a ‘digital assistant providing whispered speech.'”
Apple’s summary: Systems and processes for detecting and/or providing a whispered speech response are provided. In one example process, speech is received from a user, and based on the speech input, determined that a whispered speech response is to be provided. Upon determining that a whispered speech response is to be provided, the whispered speech response is generated and provided to the user.
Sellers reports, “pple says that it’s important that a device ‘recognizes the user’s whispered speech, which may vary from normal speech, and provide a whispered speech response under these circumstances.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: This would be perfect for students studying in the library, or for a patient in a doctor’s waiting room, for just a couple of examples.
A personal security feature when notifying the police about the home invasion robbery and not alerting the robbers while hiding in the closet. Only Apple!
Gonna be sooo hawt….
Ha!
How do you fart in a whisper?
Just ask John Dingler, fartist – he’s an expert!
Belt it out Screwdriver!
Great…can you first fix how inaccurate Siri captures my questions first, you know….that basics?
Alexa already does it.
Siri bringing up the rear, chasing others’ features.
Setting: evening, at a busy household. Mr. Intelligent User arrives home from work.
Mrs. User: “Oh you’re just in time dear, the dinner’s on the table now!”
User Jr: ” Hi Dad, we’re having my favourite curry tonight!”
Siri: “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand that. But Wikipedia says that …”
Intelligent User [in a hushed tone]: “Siri, please remove yourself entirely from my phone.”
The End
By the time I’m done repeating the same request for the 6th time, I won’t be whispering.