#personal voice

[caption id="attachment_337629" align="alignnone" width="720"] Live Speec[/caption] Users can also use Personal Voice to create an artificial voice that sounds exactly just like them if ever a time comes when they can no longer speak. Personal Voice works by having users read a random set of text prompts to record 15 minutes of audio on either iPhone or iPad. It then uses machine learning to integrate with Live Speech for users to then speak with their voice by simply typing on the screen. [caption id="attachment_337630" align="alignnone" width="720"] Personal Voice[/caption] There's also Detection Mode in the Magnifier app on iPhone and iPad that offers Point and Speak for users with blindness or low vision. [caption id="attachment_337632" align="alignnone" width="720"] Voice Control[/caption] Other features introduced include the following: Deaf or hard-of-hearing users can pair Made for iPhone hearing devices directly to Mac and customize them for their hearing comfort. For VoiceOver users, Siri voices sound natural and expressive even at high rates of speech feedback; users can also customize the rate at which Siri speaks to them, with options ranging from 0.8x to 2x. HP now offers two new consumer tablets in the forms of the Slate 6 VoiceTab and Slate 7 VoiceTab. Read more in our articles including "Apple previews new accessibility features including custom text-to-speech" and "HP announces VoiceTab, targets the budget-conscious".