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Why doesn’t Yosemite beta have text-to-speech?

October 1, 2014 / / 0 Comments

As Yosemite is past its first beta and almost ready for release, many folks are reporting issues with text-to-speech functionality in Yosemite.

This may have to do with Siri being integrated into the final form of Yosemite, per an Apple patent:

The US patent, titled “Intelligent Digital Assistant in a Desktop Environment” suggests that Siri is making the move from Apple’s mobile platform, iOS to OS X Yosemite.

The included photo is a clear depiction of Siri.

Jeff, stop poking me

Also, Yosemite will support 24 new dictation languages, up from 8 currently in Mavericks, including Arabic and Portuguese.

We’ll find out more after Yosemite’s rumored final release in October.

How Siri learns your name

July 1, 2013 / / 0 Comments

One of the features about Siri that’s frustrating is the wooden pronunciation of proper nouns, especially names.

In iOS7, Apple decided to use Siri’s “learning” ability to better use, creating an option for Siri to memorize the proper pronunciation of your name:

Siri will ask for help pronouncing a name if it has trouble understanding you the first time you pronounce a name. In addition, we have found that you can simply say, “That’s not how you pronounce [any name]” and Siri will go through the learning process.

This is a cool feature, and with an oft-mispronounced name like mine, a much appreciated one too.

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