New iPhone tool can speak in YOUR voice – and all it needs is 15 mins to learn

APPLE is launching a brand new iPhone feature that can mimic your voice within a matter of minutes.

Personal Voice is part of a suite of bonus tools designed to help people who have cognitive, speech, and vision conditions.

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The synthesized voice is meant for people who are at risk of losing their ability to speak.

Apple tech will cleverly learn how to speak like you after training the app in just 15 minutes.

Users just need to read a series of prompts aloud to set it all up.

Then using the Live Speech feature you can type out what you want to say and it’ll be reproduced sounding like you.

It can be used during a phone or FaceTime call, as well as in-person conversations.

The tool uses on-device machine learning to keep users’ information private and secure, according to Apple.

Philip Green was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2018, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, one of the most common forms of motor neuron disease.

People with ALS progressively lose the ability to control muscle movements, including the ability to speak, swallow and breathe.

There is currently no known cure.

He said: “At the end of the day, the most important thing is being able to communicate with friends and family.

“If you can tell them you love them, in a voice that sounds like you, it makes all the difference in the world — and being able to create your synthetic voice on your iPhone in just 15 minutes is extraordinary.”

Elsewhere, Apple is bolstering its tools for users who are blind or have low vision as well.

Detection Mode in Magnifier offers Point and Speak, which identifies text that users point toward and reads it out loud to help them interact with physical objects such as household appliances.

There’s also a new simplified and bigger look for iOS with Assistive Access, which will “distill apps and experiences to their essential features in order to lighten cognitive load”.

These include high contrast buttons and large text labels.

The new features are expected to arrive on iPhone, iPad and Mac later this year.

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