Apple Is Equipping Siri With Lip Reading Skills So You Can Turn Off The Always-on Mic
Apple Is Equipping Siri With Lip Reading Skills So You Can Turn Off The Always-on Mic
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has filed a patent for teaching Siri how to read lips so it doesn't have to constantly listen in with the microphone for commands like "Siri" or "Hey, Siri".
苹果公司（纳斯达克股票代码：AAPL） 已申请教学专利 Siri 如何读懂嘴唇这样它就不必经常用麦克风收听 “Siri” 或 “嘿，Siri” 之类的命令。
What Happened: Apple's latest patent filing reveals that it is trying to teach Siri how to get smarter by detecting and understanding the motions of its users to be more accurate about what they are trying to say.
发生了什么： 苹果最新的专利申请显示，它正试图教导Siri如何通过检测和理解用户的动作来变得更聪明，从而更准确地了解他们想说的话。
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"Data is received from a motion sensor, for instance, recording the motion of a user as the user utters a spoken input," Apple said in its filing, describing how the technology would work. It also mentioned the use of an accelerometer and a gyroscope, both of which are already present in iPhones.
苹果在描述该技术将如何运作的文件中说：“例如，数据是从运动传感器接收的，记录用户说出语音输入时的动作。”它还提到了加速度计和陀螺仪的使用，这两者都已经存在于iPhone中。
Reinforcements For Siri: While Apple seems to be pulling a page out of 1968 epic "2001: A Space Odyssey", it might actually need reinforcements from motion detection technology to make Siri more reliable at understanding voice commands.
Siri 的增援部队： 尽管苹果似乎正在从1968年史诗般的《2001：太空漫游》中撤出一页，但它实际上可能需要运动检测技术的增援才能使Siri在理解语音命令方面更加可靠。
"Voice control systems can result in false positive responses," the filing says.
文件说：“语音控制系统可能会导致误报。”
Motion detection would give Siri an additional data point to understand the user's commands. Apple says an always-on microphone also consumes power even when the user is not using voice commands.
运动检测将为 Siri 提供额外的数据点来理解用户的命令。苹果表示，即使用户不使用语音命令，始终开启的麦克风也会消耗电量。
"Continuously detecting and processing audio data expends power and processing capacity even when the user is not actively using voice control," Apple said in its patent filing as one of the reasons behind using motion detection.
苹果在专利申请中说：“即使用户没有积极使用语音控制，持续检测和处理音频数据也会消耗功耗和处理能力，” 苹果在专利申请中说，这是使用运动检测的原因之一。
It adds that motion detection would be more power efficient, instead. "Motion sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes can detect these motions while expending relatively little power compared to audio sensors such as microphones," Apple says.
它补充说，相反，运动检测的能效会更高。苹果说：“与麦克风等音频传感器相比，加速度计和陀螺仪等运动传感器可以检测到这些运动，同时消耗的功率相对较少。”
Not requiring always-on microphones would also be a positive when it comes to user privacy, but it remains to be seen how far in the development cycle this feature is.
在用户隐私方面，不需要始终开启的麦克风也是积极的，但是这个功能在开发周期中有多远还有待观察。
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