Apple Patents Explore Echolocation, Text-To-Speech Voice With Adaptive Personalities

Apple's looking into some intriguing things in a couple of new patent applications spotted oday, including sonar-style echolocation for passive proximity detection, and a text-to-speech engine that takes contextual cues about what it's reading and adds personality to the computer-generated voices it employs. Both of these could result in big changes in the daily use of mobile devices.

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