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Various sources are reporting that buried in the iPhone 3.0 OS is evidence of voice control features that are codenamed “Jibbler,” as well as synthesized voice responses from the phone, like the new iPod shuffle.
It looks like Jibbler is an “enhancement” to the iPhone’s SpringBoard app - the essentially invisible app that manages the homescreen and launches applications - and might be controlled by the headset. Unlike the Shuffle, which lets your computer do all of the synthesizing work to talk to you, the
iPhone would handle it in real time, apparently.
Hello, voice dialing - and if the voice control APIs make it to the SDK - voice Twittering, no more separate apps required at all. It could be a whole new world for the iPhone in terms of control. Maybe in the future gestures, buttons, etc. will all be a thing of the past (maybe not in the very near future, but it doesn’t appear too far away).
We’ll keep an eye on this story as it develops.