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".
蘋果公司（納斯達克股票代碼：AAPL） 已申請教學專利 Siri 如何讀懂嘴脣這樣它就不必經常用麥克風收聽 “Siri” 或 “嘿，Siri” 之類的命令。
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.
發生了什麼： 蘋果最新的專利申請顯示，它正試圖教導Siri如何通過檢測和理解用戶的動作來變得更聰明，從而更準確地了解他們想說的話。
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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.
蘋果在描述該技術將如何運作的文件中說：“例如，數據是從運動傳感器接收的，記錄用戶說出語音輸入時的動作。”它還提到了加速度計和陀螺儀的使用，這兩者都已經存在於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 的增援部隊： 儘管蘋果似乎正在從1968年史詩般的《2001：太空漫遊》中撤出一頁，但它實際上可能需要運動檢測技術的增援才能使Siri在理解語音命令方面更加可靠。
"Voice control systems can result in false positive responses," the filing says.
文件說：“語音控制系統可能會導致誤報。”
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.
運動檢測將爲 Siri 提供額外的數據點來理解用戶的命令。蘋果表示，即使用戶不使用語音命令，始終開啓的麥克風也會消耗電量。
"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.
蘋果在專利申請中說：“即使用戶沒有積極使用語音控制，持續檢測和處理音頻數據也會消耗功耗和處理能力，” 蘋果在專利申請中說，這是使用運動檢測的原因之一。
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.
它補充說，相反，運動檢測的能效會更高。蘋果說：“與麥克風等音頻傳感器相比，加速度計和陀螺儀等運動傳感器可以檢測到這些運動，同時消耗的功率相對較少。”
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.
在用戶隱私方面，不需要始終開啓的麥克風也是積極的，但是這個功能在開發週期中有多遠還有待觀察。
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