Apple unveils new cognitive, vision, and speech accessibility features for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, like an AI voice that sounds like the user's, coming in 2023
If done well, this could be excellent for live music fans and support for Maps guides makes sense. … Blake E. Reid / @blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org : It won't get nearly as much attention, but the #Apple #a11y announcement of personalized voicing for folks with speech disabilities uses ~the same underlying technology as the fake Drake stuff with a totally different context and framing. … David Nielsen / @DavidNielsen@mastodon.social : @viticci @macstories @imyke personal voice is going to be so meaningful. I lost my aunt to ALS and when she lost her ability to speak, she never used the text to speech machine they gave her, it was simply too cumbersome. … @johnvoorhees@mastodon.macstories.net : Noteably absent from today's accessibility announcements was anything about the Apple Watch. Given the rumors of a major watchOS 10 redesign I can't say that I'm surprised. https://mastodon.macstories.net/ ... Steve Troughton-Smith / @stroughtonsmith … : Revealing picture; unfortunately, it seems like macOS of today is just in no position to implement Dynamic Type, so Apple has to limit text scaling to just a handful of first-party apps. That's a shame Steve Troughton-Smith / @stroughtonsmith … : Assistive Access is exactly the kind of feature I was trying to jury rig together a couple months ago for somebody to use in the ICU and through recovery. … Anil Dash / @anildash@me.dm : These are pretty extraordinary accessibility improvements that Apple just launched, and like all such fixes, make things better for *everyone*. I can think of so many people in my life I'd want to enable some of these features for … Tweets: @sahandnayebaziz : Apple's Assistive Access is stunning, refreshing, and genius. Bravo to everyone at Apple. https://www.apple.com/... [image] Steve Saylor / @stevesaylor : These are some amazing accessibility features coming to Apple. You love to see it. https://twitter.com/... Jeff Yang / @originalspin : Hard for me to imagine there's any way this will end up getting abused or exploited, nuh uh https://twitter.com/... Aaron Zollo / @zollotech : Been reading through the accessibility features coming to iOS 17. They seem like a big jump in usefulness and should help a lot of people. Tim Cook / @tim_cook : At Apple, we believe technology should be designed to help everyone do what they love. We're excited to preview new accessibility features to help even more people follow their dreams. https://www.apple.com/... Lisa P. Jackson / @lisapjackson : So proud of our teams for continuing to make technology more accessible for everyone. https://twitter.com/... Marques Brownlee / @mkbhd : iOS 17 isn't even announced yet, but today Apple previewed an accessibility feature that allows users at risk of losing their ability to speak to CREATE A VOICE THAT SOUNDS LIKE THEM in 15 minutes integrates with FaceTime, phone calls, etc. No big deal. https://www.apple.com/... [image] Andy Allen / @asallen : Here I am wishing this level of simplicity was the default. https://twitter.com/... Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : My son has deep difficulties speaking with people. He's hard to understand. Often he takes his iPad out and types things out to communicate with others. Here AI will help him, and many others like him, deeply. https://twitter.com/... Greg Joswiak / @gregjoz : We're proud to work with disability communities to design technology that creates new ways for people to communicate with one another and connect more deeply to the world around them. https://twitter.com/... Andrew Hart / @andrewhartar : “What else are we going to cut from the event, to make time for Reality Pro” These are not even lame features. So far: - Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad - “Personal Voice” aka text to speech *for your own voice* - Concert discovery in Maps/Music Gonna be a big one. https://twitter.com/... Chance Miller / @chancehmiller : Is this another example of Apple doing incredible stuff with AI, even though it's constantly criticized for not offering a chatbot? https://9to5mac.com/... Andy Ihnatko / @ihnatko : This is a signature of the Apple news cycle in May: a series of smaller news releases about interesting and potentially important stuff. I have to suspect that this story was in the WWDC keynote until recently and got cut from the final rundown. https://techcrunch.com/... Sommer Panage / @sommer : Apple released their #accessibility preview. 🤩 One part in particular is near and dear to my heart, so it's deeply emotional to see it coming to light. So happy for the team and thrilled to see what they're doing this year. Sending all my love to CA! 💙💙 https://www.apple.com/... Steve Moser / @stevemoser : Apple is also announcing Live Speech and Personal Voice Advance Speech Accessibility and Detection Mode in Magnifier Introduces Point and Speak for Users Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision. https://www.apple.com/... [image] Joe Rossignol / @rsgnl : This looks similar to the Custom Accessibility Mode that leaked in iOS 16.2 Steve Moser / @stevemoser : Apple announces Assistive Access, AKA “Custom Accessibility Mode Apps” codename ClarityUI, before WWDC. “Assistive Access uses innovations in design to distill apps and experiences to their essential features in order to lighten cognitive load.” [image]
Is this another example of Apple doing incredible stuff with AI, even though it's constantly criticized for not offering a chatbot? https://9to5mac.com/...
This is a signature of the Apple news cycle in May: a series of smaller news releases about interesting and potentially important stuff. I have to suspect that this story was in the WWDC keynote until recently and got cut from the final rundown. https://techcrunch.com/...
Apple released their #accessibility preview. 🤩 One part in particular is near and dear to my heart, so it's deeply emotional to see it coming to light. So happy for the team and thrilled to see what they're doing this year. Sending all my love to CA! 💙💙 https://www.apple.com/...
Apple is also announcing Live Speech and Personal Voice Advance Speech Accessibility and Detection Mode in Magnifier Introduces Point and Speak for Users Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision. https://www.apple.com/... [image]
Apple announces Assistive Access, AKA “Custom Accessibility Mode Apps” codename ClarityUI, before WWDC. “Assistive Access uses innovations in design to distill apps and experiences to their essential features in order to lighten cognitive load.” [image]
It won't get nearly as much attention, but the #Apple #a11y announcement of personalized voicing for folks with speech disabilities uses ~the same underlying technology as the fake Drake stuff with a totally different context and framing. …
@viticci @macstories @imyke personal voice is going to be so meaningful. I lost my aunt to ALS and when she lost her ability to speak, she never used the text to speech machine they gave her, it was simply too cumbersome. …
Noteably absent from today's accessibility announcements was anything about the Apple Watch. Given the rumors of a major watchOS 10 redesign I can't say that I'm surprised. https://mastodon.macstories.net/ ...
Revealing picture; unfortunately, it seems like macOS of today is just in no position to implement Dynamic Type, so Apple has to limit text scaling to just a handful of first-party apps. That's a shame
Assistive Access is exactly the kind of feature I was trying to jury rig together a couple months ago for somebody to use in the ICU and through recovery. …
At Apple, we believe technology should be designed to help everyone do what they love. We're excited to preview new accessibility features to help even more people follow their dreams. https://www.apple.com/...
iOS 17 isn't even announced yet, but today Apple previewed an accessibility feature that allows users at risk of losing their ability to speak to CREATE A VOICE THAT SOUNDS LIKE THEM in 15 minutes integrates with FaceTime, phone calls, etc. No big deal. https://www.apple.com/... …
My son has deep difficulties speaking with people. He's hard to understand. Often he takes his iPad out and types things out to communicate with others. Here AI will help him, and many others like him, deeply. https://twitter.com/...
We're proud to work with disability communities to design technology that creates new ways for people to communicate with one another and connect more deeply to the world around them. https://twitter.com/...
“What else are we going to cut from the event, to make time for Reality Pro” These are not even lame features. So far: - Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad - “Personal Voice” aka text to speech *for your own voice* - Concert discovery in Maps/Music Gonna be a big one. https://t…
I've wanted Apple to integrate concert schedules and set lists into Apple Music for years, so today's announcement has me *very* excited. — If done well, this could be excellent for live music fans and support for Maps guides makes sense. …
Apple is full of announcements today. Apple launches new concert discovery features on Apple Maps and Apple Music. Looks like the Music Venues feature on Apple Maps isn't live yet. Haven't seen “This page is temporarily unavailable” on Apple Maps before. [image]