Due to We are celebrating World Availability DayApple has advanced in this regard in some of the technologies it is working on, which will reach its various devices later this year. And given what Apple published by those from Cupertino, it is quite clear that they took it very seriously, with a plethora of the most interesting proposals, and this will undoubtedly be appreciated by many users.

The most remarkable of what Apple announced today is without a doubt new live subtitle feature that comes to iOS, ipadOS and macOS, especially aimed at the hearing impaired. Its function, as you may already have imagined, is real-time voice-to-text conversion, and it can be used in multiple contexts, whether you’re on the phone or FaceTime, using a video conferencing service or social networking, streaming multimedia content. or even talk to someone next to you.

Subtitles generated by this new system distinguish between different votes if there is more than one participantand explain which of them each transcript corresponds to. In addition, when using Live Captions for Mac calls, the system will also offer the user a feedback function, meaning that they will be able to write a response and the text-to-speech technology will “read it to the people involved in the call.

Another very interesting feature, this for Apple users who have a LiDAR sensor, is the assistance system for the blind and partially sighted. Sensor in combination with camera and machine learning functions is able to identify the door, warning users that they are approaching one of them. The assistant will indicate its distance, whether it is open or closed, whether it has a handle, knob or handle, and whether it opens by pulling or pushing. In addition, you will recognize and read the signs and symbols that appear around you.

There is also news for Apple Watch users, namely The option to mirror the clock screen on the iPhone screen will be enabled, thus making it easier for people who have difficulty handling the Apple Watch directly due to a motor disability. In this way, these users will be able to benefit from multiple clock quantification features without having to deal with the complications they may have.

Also additional languages ​​have been added to Voice Over, Apple’s technology for reading content that appears on the screen. Newly added languages ​​include Catalan, Basque and Chilean Spanish. And for hearing-impaired users, the device learns to recognize different sounds – from the alarm to the bell – and alerts the user to them.

Apple has undoubtedly done a great job since These are just the most remarkable reports about it. It is now crucial to wait for them to arrive, which we hope will generally happen as soon as possible, as they can make a significant difference for people with different types of disabilities.