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Apple’s New Accessibility Features Can Mimic Your Voice

Apple showed how users could use the upcoming Point and Speak feature in the Magnifier app to detect and read buttons on a microwave.
Apple showed how users could use the upcoming Point and Speak feature in the Magnifier app to detect and read buttons on a microwave. Gif: Apple / Gizmodo

Although the company hasn’t revealed when the new features will arrive (WWDC 2023 is probably a good guess), last month Apple revealed several new iPhone, iPad, and Mac accessibility features including an AI-powered Point and Speak feature in the Magnifier app, making it even easier for those with reduced vision to identify things. There’s also the ability for users to generate a synthesized voice that sounds just like them with just 15 minutes of training.