Aug 30

iPhone with Text to Speech in the works?

Apple appears to be cooking a new and exciting feature for iPhone, it’s call speech to text. Imaging having to do away with sometimes annoying keyboard and just spell a text message, email or whatever text you want and your iPhone will do the rest. Cool huh?

According to a recent patent, Apple is working on speech to text technology for it iPhone and iPod devices.
The Baltimore Sun included the following diagram of how the text to speech system would work when wording an email.

From the patent filing

The speech recognition module can analyze the speech data to derive text data, the text data comprising sequence information associated with each of a plurality of words associated with the speech data. The text composition module can receive the text data and combine the text data with the non-speech data based upon the sequence information. The text composition module can thereby produce combined text data derived from the text data and the non-speech data. The interface can transmit the combined text data to the mobile device for presentation to a user of the mobile device.