Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text Converters Coming Soon for iPhone?

Apple is reportedly filing a patent application for a system for the iPhone that could translate text messages into speech, and vice versa, according to Patently Apple.

“According to a new Apple patent application that was published this morning by the US Patent and Trademark Office, future iPhone’s are likely to provide end users with effective new ways of communicating in both noisy environments like a restaurant or even during a quiet office meeting without stirring a mouse,“ Patently Apple reports.

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