In this report from Ars Technica it is said iPhone 3.0 will have voice dialing capabilities. They claim the new feature, codenamed “Jibber” will have both voice recognition and voice synthesis. Here’s the excerpt:
Not much information is known at this time, but according to our own people familiar with the matter, Jibbler appears be an enhancement to the iPhone SpringBoard application, the Finder-esque app that acts as a launcher and will support the newly announced 3.0 Spotlight search. Jibbler may be controlled via the iPhone headset—button squeezes could be used to record short voice segments from the user, which Jibbler will then interpret. Voice synthesis can then be used to give the user a response, similar to the latest generation iPod shuffle, which can “read” playlists and track names—the difference being that the iPhone hardware itself could handle real-time voice synthesis.
I always saw this as an odd omission to the iPhone OS. Apple was on top of all of the other cutting edge technologies but left this one out. Do I think it will make it? For what my opinion is worth, yes, I can see this included in iPhone 3.0.
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