Voice Activated Copy/Paste on the Apple iPhone
To set the stage, I’ve had an iPhone since launch and have been using the iPhone 3.0 OS since I had access to the beta program in early spring.
I am now a few months past the hype and excitement for the new features and one feature that has become essential is “Copy and Paste”.
Using the current incarnation is definitely better than not having the feature at all, but at times it can be a little sticky and accidentally pops up when I am scrolling.
With Apple pushing it’s Voice Control feature I began theorizing on how the same technology could be used as an interface.
It would be nice if you could begin using an additional palette of features or functionality through voice controls. Whether it was formatting, copy and paste, or text input.
Formatting would be nice, you could immediately make your text bold, italic or underlined with voice input.Copy and Paste would be a no-brainer and I wouldn’t mind easy text input for “.com” or “.” or even “quotes” as I ended typing or selected text.
Additional opportunities could include attaching voice notes to documents you review or application controls. Imagine saying “zoom” on your camera or “send” within your e-mail application? And I would really love functionality that was voice related or predictive that would help me manage e-mail organization. If I want to “move” a message to a folder it sure would be nice if it looked at my current folder structure, saw the message was from Steve Jobs and suggested I filed under “People > Jobs, Steve”.
Until then, I guess I’ll keep dreaming about the possibilities.
