Jibbler voice controls added to iPhone 3.0?

Chauncey Dupree
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April 20, 2009
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Ars points out that the new iPhone OS has some special speech-related references with a codename Jibbler.  It looks to provide voice synthesis and also rudimentary voice recognition for functions like voice calling and possibly more advance featres like voice navigation of Springboard, the Finder of the iPhone.

Our sources turned up references to classes and methods named VSSpeechSynthesizer, VSRecognitionSession, SBVoiceControlDisableHandlerActions, SBSensitiveJibblerEnabled, and SBVoiceControlSoundCompletion. SB refers to SpringBoard, and VS likely refers to Voice Services. The separate Voice Services classes leave open the possibility that Apple may eventually allow access to these services via the official SDK. There's no indication whether these voice features will be tied to newer hardware expected this summer or if the features will be compatible with existing iPhone hardware.

Finally, these functions could help out with assisted services for disabled users and help in their ability to interact with the iPhone and the iPod touch.

Apps like Google Mobile and Vlingo have used voice recognition on the iPhone but the means to do so has never been built into the Core OS..until now.

Comments (17)

iHate Apple (not verified) | April 20, 2009 - 10:26pm

Welcome to 1999 Apple.

My Nokia 8210 way back in 1999 had VOICE OVER http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_8210-19.php

lol Apple & 9to5mac come on guys.. be realistic here. don't Hype some thing as basic as voice commands. I am sure Apple marketing guys will say "FIRST EVER phone to feature Voice Commands" .... yeah it may be first for you but not for rest of the world!

Twice the Price, Half the Features... that's Apple :p

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 20, 2009 - 11:15pm

How is this feature "hyped", this article barely just mentions that there will be voiceover included. No one is saying this is the first phone to have voiceover included.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 5:46am

You are a total IDIOT sir!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 5:49am

If you hate Apple, what the F**K are you doing on this site you stupid piece of S**T. Did MS pay to get on here and talk out of your A**.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 5:50am

If you hate Apple, what the F**K are you doing on this site you stupid piece of S**T. Did MS pay to get on here and talk out of your A**.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 6:24am

I have owned a Nokia 8210. It was a great phone, but its voice recognition capability was extremely weak. I'd say it could dial accurately on voice command about 20% of the time, and it had to be trained to get that good. And I have perfect diction.

Transcribing spoken, casual speech is something that the Nokia never could do at all. It didn't even pretend to do it.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 5:40am

What a moron, probably a right wing Republican still suffering from the last election?

Twice the Price, Twice the Quality and Twice the Features…

dhopkins1961 | April 21, 2009 - 8:16am

Way to be open. You sound more like a PC...   I'm one ot those "right wing" Republicans (well, actually a moral and economic conservative, the Rep's have pissed me off way too much these past 6 years to ever call myself a Republican) and I love Macs and Apple Products. I agree that guy is an idiot, but don't lump all us conservatives in with the idiots. There's plenty of idiots on both sides of the isle.

If you want a real laugh, check out the media morons in the "CNBC Mac vs PC debate".  Total idiots.  They don't have a clue on how to explain how much better a Mac is to a PC.  

L8tr..........................

 

Semper Fidelis; Proud Father (and son) of a U.S. Marine

 

Olternaut (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 11:11am

So I expect you will be one of the lemmings who will applaude apple when they announce such features that have been on the market for years already?

Remember during the iphone 3.0 beta keynote when Scott Forstall announced that it will include cut&paste? Remember the thunderous applause from the audience? If not, thats because there wasn't.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 6:27am

My cellphone from the 1990's also have a physical keyboard so I was able to type properly and then I had another phone in the past that could send MMS... I can't believe the iPhone can't do these things... it's not like the iPhone is substantially more capable than those phones in dozens of other areas or anything...

farmboy (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 11:26am

One more time: Who said a physical keyboard is a "feature" and a touch keyboard is not?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 5:42pm

I was being sarcastic, sorry

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 6:29am

The voice dialing on a phone I owned was so secure, it made me repeat the name 5-7 times before it actually dialed, just incase I meant to say something else.

C LO (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 6:31am

I agree that guy is way off base, and he is definitely talking out of his backside The iphone is incredible. But please, don't lay into the Republican Right Wing lingo. We get enough of that ridiculous talk all day long on the new channels about how evil the right is. Lets keep this about tech, which we all love!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 6:50am

The funny thing is, that as a left wing guy (in Canada... so what's WAY left), I think the same about the media telling me how evil the left is all the time. We're not that different, you and I.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 8:32pm

Where on this planet does any kind of media say the left is evil? That's actually funny!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 21, 2009 - 7:07am

He is right this pure hype.

My Motorolla V551 (probably 5 years old) had perfect voice dialing & was correct 98% of the time. Palm, Blackberries, WinMo have all had it working perfectly for years.

Their are 2 apps that I know of that currently are using this. Vlingo & Google and both are somewhat accurate.

On the Blackberry, Vlingo is almost perfect.

Apple is playing catch up with this 3.0 update and it should have been in 2.0.