That The iPhone is the flagship of Apple It’s something that doesn’t allow for too much discussion. It is the best-selling device that brought the company the most prestige and, moreover, the one that for many users acted as a gateway to the complete ecosystem of Cupertino products and services. If the iPod served to endear (practically) everyone to the brand at the time, the iPhone was responsible for converting many of those who had not yet ventured into the market into customers.

That’s why Apple knows it has to maintain constant effort to ensure that the iPhone continues to stand out in one way or another in a market as competitive as the smartphone market. Competition is getting tougher every day, the high-end offers models that continue to grow in attractiveness, and thus any impression that the company is resting on its laurels and that its phone shows that relaxation can have devastating effects on the image and company accounts. .

This explains why it is so common know that Apple has registered new patents related to the iPhone, serving a variety of purposes. So it is true that not all of them are put into practice. Whether it’s because they don’t quite work, because they don’t fit the product philosophy, or for whatever reason, we know that Apple Park’s drawers are full of surprising ideas… for better, for worse, or even, in some cases, the bad ones, two things at once.

Original, creative, funny, chilling, quirky… I’m sure many people will think of one or more of these descriptions when they hear about this new idea from Cupertino. And it is as we can read in Apple, Apple has patented a technology for the iPhone that allows the voice of our contacts to read iMessages. So the TTS (Text To Speech) system, but instead of using other voices like Siri, it will reproduce the voice of the original author of the message.

To do this, the sender’s iPhone must have Siri activated, as the voice assistant “learns” its user’s voice during its personalized learning, which is a key element for it to be able to recognize if a voice command has been issued. by third parties. So with the system included in this patent Siri could generate a voice file from the text entered by her user. Then, when the recipient receives the message, they will be offered to download the text-only version or, if they want, the audio version of the message as well.

Since we’re talking about Apple, which normally takes security very seriously, I’d like to think that if they finally implement this feature, they’ll do everything necessary to confirm that the sender is who they say they are, because otherwise, a system like this can be used for identity theft and similar techniques that can be very dangerous. Now, if the company is able to ensure that the system is fully secure, the truth is that the proposal sounds very creative and many iPhone users may like it.

What do you think? Would you like your phone to have such a feature?