As a part of its Global Accessibility Awareness, the tech behemoth Apple has announced a new feature for its iPhone users. This feature will help users with cognitive, vision and hearing disabilities. It includes a new Personal Voice Feature for people who have lost the ability to speak or have lost their vision partially or completely. This will help them to create a synthesized voice that sounds like them, so they can talk to their friends and family.Additionally, the users can build a Personal Voice by reading a series of text prompts aloud on their iPhone or iPad for a total of 15 minutes. Users can personalise the function by typing what they want to say and have their Voice read it to anybody they want to chat with because the feature combines with Live Speech. According to Apple, the function makes use of “on-device machine learning to keep users information private and secure.”Apple in an official statement said that the feature will arrive later this year, and that could be part of ioS 17.Additionally, Magnifier now has a new detection mode that is intended to assist blind or low-vision people in interacting with real-world objects that feature a lot of text labels. Apple gives the microwave keypad as an example of how a user may point their devices camera at a label and have the iPhone or iPad read the label aloud while the user runs their finger across each number or set.Apple also emphasised several additional Mac features, such as a means for people who are hard of hearing or deaf to pair their Made for iPhone hearing aids with a Mac. Additionally, the business is making it simpler to change the text size in Mac versions of Finder, Messages, Mail, Calendar, and Notes.Apart from this, users will also be able to pause GIFs in Safari and Messages, they will be allowed to customize the rate at which Siri speaks to them, and while changing text they will be able to utilise Voice Control to get phonetic recommendations. All of this expands upon the accessibility capabilities that Apple already offers for the Mac and iPhone, such as Live Captions, a VoiceOver screen reader, Door Detection, and other features. Apple through its official support handle, announced, “If youre blind or have low vision and use VoiceOver on your Apple devices, you can use it on Apple TV as well. Hold down the Siri button on your Apple TV remote and say, “Turn on VoiceOver.”If youre blind or have low vision and use VoiceOver on your Apple devices, you can use it on Apple TV as well. Hold down the Siri button on your Apple TV remote and say, “Turn on VoiceOver.”Learn about the accessibility features on Apple TV: https://t.co/QZLa5CjsTl pic.twitter.com/vKxxC5WbEz— Apple Support (@AppleSupport) May 14, 2023
