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Apple’s Voice-Learning AI: Accessibility Enters the Chat

Apple previewed AI features rolling out later this year that include being able to have the iPhone speak in your voice. It’s designed to assist people living with disabilities. CNET’s Bridget Carey takes a look at how this twist on AI can change lives. Apple Previews a Ton of New Accessibility Features Ahead of WWDC:…

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Apple previewed AI features rolling out later this year that include being able to have the iPhone speak in your voice. It’s designed to assist people living with disabilities. CNET’s Bridget Carey takes a look at how this twist on AI can change lives.

Apple Previews a Ton of New Accessibility Features Ahead of WWDC:

0:00 Apple’s New AI-Enhanced Accessibility Tools
0:48 AI For Good, Not Evil
2:45 Personal Voice and Live Speech
3:37 Detection Mode in Magnifier
4:20 Assistive Access Tools
4:46 First-hand Impressions of Accessibility Demos
8:02 Will Apple Show More AI Tools at WWDC?

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  1. TheSco415

    May 19, 2023 at 8:50 am

    Nerds are even more nerdier these days 😂😂😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

  2. NLG1

    May 19, 2023 at 8:53 am

    This is scary

  3. Telagraf

    May 19, 2023 at 8:59 am

    the simplified interface (UI) would be so helpful for my mother

  4. Arvin Mañalac

    May 19, 2023 at 9:01 am

    YOU HAVE A SEXY VOICE

  5. Kode Williams

    May 19, 2023 at 9:14 am

    This guy needs to use this ai honestly

    • Bobby Stenhouse

      May 19, 2023 at 5:52 pm

      There was no need for this comment😮

  6. Louis Martini

    May 19, 2023 at 9:35 am

    Great Video Bridget! Soon you will be able to produce these videos straight from the keyboard with absolutely no time in front of the camera and you will be able to do all from your cell phone.

  7. Dr.Jekyll

    May 19, 2023 at 9:42 am

    Apple is so behind in the AI race it’s sad to watch. They’re just like Microsoft that didn’t see the smartphone race coming so they were left in the dust. Apple is now getting a taste of that, they are gonna be left behind in the AI race because they were so focus on just selling phones and not looking forward.

  8. Sh4unity

    May 19, 2023 at 9:44 am

    Now voice and later video recorded evidence will be obsolete?

  9. Ed Hudley

    May 19, 2023 at 10:00 am

    Wow, iOS17 can be marketed as AiOS17.

  10. Yg T

    May 19, 2023 at 10:01 am

    Apple is using the right term! Machine Learning and AI are completely 2 different things. Giving that “wink 😉” thinking they are same thing shows how clueless CNET is ….

    • Kenneth Daniels

      May 19, 2023 at 8:19 pm

      Artificial intelligence encompasses the idea of a machine that can mimic human intelligence, machine learning does not. Machine learning aims to teach a machine how to perform a specific task and provide accurate results by identifying patterns.

  11. Rich V

    May 19, 2023 at 10:13 am

    This is another with the best of intentions idea, and we all know how that plays out.

  12. Xelite

    May 19, 2023 at 11:28 am

    When it coming out and how can you use it for example can I use it in voice notes for youtube videos?

  13. R Krish

    May 19, 2023 at 12:02 pm

    I think apple will silently develop and release their ai model

  14. ItzEagleT

    May 19, 2023 at 12:53 pm

    W

  15. Jason

    May 19, 2023 at 12:58 pm

    The reading of products labels will not just help people with disabilities. Just imagine if it could translate products in another language. It would make traveling overseas much easier.

    • Jay Tickle

      May 19, 2023 at 7:03 pm

      That already exists in the Google Lens app.

  16. Chris S

    May 19, 2023 at 1:00 pm

    If you’ve wondered why the M1 M2 CPUs are so powerful, it is for the massive vision machine learning that the headset will have.

  17. SecretOfMonkeyIsland

    May 19, 2023 at 1:44 pm

    Was in the newspaper today (UK – Daily Mail) that BT (British Telecom) will replace 10K customer service jobs with AI in the next 7 years. Be careful what you wish for.

  18. Albert Sitoe

    May 19, 2023 at 1:54 pm

    That AR Headset is going to be bonkers!

  19. NELSON ABRAHAM

    May 19, 2023 at 2:40 pm

    Ai is gonna be the doomsday for humans

  20. NELSON ABRAHAM

    May 19, 2023 at 2:40 pm

    Million year of evolution in a moment

  21. Scout Storm

    May 19, 2023 at 4:20 pm

    It’s easy to hate on Apple. I do it myself often. But I admit that Apple and Accessibility have been paired for as long as I remember – way back to the original iMac. I applaud them for always being so far ahead of anyone else when it comes to accessibility. Kudos to Apple, and also to Bridget for always being so friggin’ adorable!

    • AA5SA

      May 20, 2023 at 3:28 pm

      I’m legally blind, and the inclusion of accessibility features as a core part of their products is the sole reason I exclusively use their products. They are the only technology company that doesn’t make me feel like an afterthought.

  22. jojorp84

    May 19, 2023 at 4:25 pm

    Students are the clear winners when it come to AI 😂 No one likes term papers

  23. B;7o6

    May 19, 2023 at 4:53 pm

    Honestly this is all perfect fit for AR glasses

  24. diamondbreak

    May 19, 2023 at 7:31 pm

    You are so cute 😍.. This is the voice of ML.

  25. kmannewyork

    May 19, 2023 at 8:39 pm

    As I will you, can you blind person I like the features for the blind. Especially since I am loosing the tiny bit of central vision that I only have in my left eye. 9:01

  26. Russell

    May 19, 2023 at 11:03 pm

    Carton of milk expired 11/10/22. By now it’s basically yoghurt.

  27. Tao Master

    May 19, 2023 at 11:29 pm

    Idk late as always apple

  28. Hussien Alsafi

    May 20, 2023 at 3:38 am

    👌👌👌👌👌😊😊😊😊😊

  29. RiGo

    May 20, 2023 at 4:41 am

    I wish I had something like this before my mom passed away. Since my sons were born years after her passing they’ll never know the sound of the nagging I would get growing up that makes me sad everyday 🥲.

  30. BryceLovesTech

    May 20, 2023 at 5:50 am

    I’m a huge apple fan but you Gotta be kidding me Siri has been a joke for a decade and now they think they can do AI. How about you fix Siri first Apple

  31. Shane Estep

    May 20, 2023 at 7:33 am

    Wish they would just make Siri better. I switched to apple 1 year ago and it’s so far behind

  32. 平和

    May 20, 2023 at 8:44 am

    Sometimes they do something good and help to improve people’s lives.

    Other times they want to show off how good they are at greenwashing and design their products to be very hard if not impossible to repair.

  33. Leo Rowse

    May 20, 2023 at 11:00 am

    It’s creepy

  34. Hassan Maje

    May 20, 2023 at 12:05 pm

    M:i:III

  35. AA5SA

    May 20, 2023 at 3:31 pm

    I hope that Apple adds external camera support to magnifier. I’d love to have the features of the OrCam without having to pay $3,000 for it.

  36. CIRUS MEDIA

    May 20, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    AI and Machine Learning is not the same. This host needs to be educated!

  37. DariusRoland

    May 20, 2023 at 11:19 pm

    As a person with low vision, this is awesome.

  38. MrSteeveAustin

    May 21, 2023 at 2:00 am

    Another example of apple doing things the right way. They think about impact before they release something.

  39. ENOQ

    May 21, 2023 at 2:09 am

    typical apple. android does it first then they jump on board

  40. Paul

    May 21, 2023 at 9:03 am

    We have allowed ourselves to become enslaved to tech. Apple slaves, Google slaves…..we all be slaves.

  41. [GD] [GD]

    May 21, 2023 at 1:55 pm

    Please AI voice translations recording the iPhone background audio like Shazam please

  42. Joe Baron

    May 21, 2023 at 11:31 pm

    I’ll admit, I’ll miss the old school generic MC Hawkins voice when it’s gone—it’s part of what made Stephen Hawkins such a distinctive stand out celeb!—but that’s just because it’s what I’m used to I guess; no doubt this tech will be fantastic for so many. And I don’t mean to be disrespectful in my remarks: the strange thing is, there’s something most telling about the choice of words, rather than the sound of them, that makes you know that the person inside is really talking. Christopher Reeve, again, is another personal hero of mine that also used the classic MC Hawkins voice. But regardless, he was still always the guy that said “I like pink very much Lois” as Superman, and clumsily bumped into doors and pushed up his glasses so he could see properly as Clarke Kent. Ironically, even though he will always be my Superman, he became a real Superman after the accident—the sound of his voice was actually the least important component of him being “Still Me”. Whilst continued investment in scientific research is paramount for disability, the acceptance of disability/being different is really for people to bridge the gap on mass via perception and understanding, not for machines to try to “make normal”. At least that’s my opinion anyway. But don’t get me wrong: this is fantastic for a great many people. The scariest thing about AI to me is—when it gets more advanced (so by next week then…)—it will be able to make you fall in love with a person simply by working out their language patterns and your desires; after which adding the voice on top then just becomes the final deception. There was an episode of The Outer Limits (90s version) where Mark Hamill (AKA Luke Skywalker) fell foul to this and was manipulated by the machine he created, to kill the one he loved, even though he though the was using the machine to save her instead!

  43. NineOneOneFx

    May 22, 2023 at 7:39 am

    Thank you CNET for giving me more Bridget, more often!

  44. Cedric Moore

    May 22, 2023 at 3:03 pm

    Great Video! Very interesting look at the positive side of what AI can do if used for good. Also, Thanks Bridgette Carey!

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