New Apple Patent Allows For Voice Recognition Capability [A Newly Unearthed Patent Allows For The Possibility That You May Be Able To Tell Your Apple Device What To Do]

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Apple patents are a wonderful thing. Sure, many of them never actually see the light of day as products, but by looking at the patents Apple’s got up its collective sleeve, sometimes you can figure out where they might be going next. And now, they’ve got a new direction in mind, as evidenced by their new patent for voice command recognition programs.

So far it’s been a big week for the Apple crew, having garnered at last report fully 16 new patents, and one of them is the one we’re talking about here. Dubbed “User Profiling for Voice Input Processing”, the patent will essentially allow a user to be identified by the sound of his or her own voice. While most voice command software currently available (including that of the current iPhone and, of course, its Android equivalent) responds primarily to key words, but this particular batch includes measures like pitch, timbre, and the unique sound of a person’s voice to augment control capability. You’ll basically be able to lock at least some parts of your iPhone (or other iDevices, respectively) and make them activate only by the sound of your voice as a control key.

This in turn goes a long way toward keeping hackers out of your files, at least on your iDevice, and if Apple licenses out the technology, we might well one day get to the point where you open your email by telling your email to open, and it responds because the password is now your unique voice.

I’d love to see something like this show up–passwords you never have to change because your password is now your voice, which can’t be hacked outside of bizarre methods involving surgery or, possibly recorders. There would have to be concessions made for those stricken mute by disease, disability or the like, but they’d still have access to keyboards, so that would likely work out in the end.

What do you guys think about this? Think we’ll start telling our iDevices what to do soon, and they’ll turn around and do them? Or are we looking at another Apple patent that won’t make it to the market? Either way, we want to hear what you think, so hit the comments section below and fill us in!

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