iMessage reads text messages with your voice

Apple has filed a patent that will allow for iMessage to read received and sent text messages aloud. So far nothing innovative, but the big news is that it will not be Siri who will read them, but your voice.

This was reported by 9to5Mac who also explains how this new technology works. Let’s try to understand each other more.

iPhone will read iMessage messages with your voice

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The technology requires users to “lend” their voice to the smartphone. To do this they will have to provide iPhone with some voice messages which will be scanned and analyzed by artificial intelligence, so that it is able to faithfully and realistically reproduce the human voice. A real imitation.

But that’s not all: it will be possible assign different entries to contacts in the address book. For example, if you receive a message from Marco, a friend of yours, you can associate Marco’s real voice with his messages. In that case iPhone will read Marco’s messages with his real voice. To do this it is obviously necessary, as anticipated above, that Marco lends his voice.

As with all Apple patents, there’s no way to know if the company will ever turn it into an actual feature, and it’s even less clear when that might happen. However, it is a very interesting feature that, we admit, worries us a little.