Apple’s New Text-to-Voice Patent Bypasses GSM Protocols

According to The Macintosh News Network, on July 26, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple’s patent application titled Multimedia data transfer for a personal communication device, a system for providing multimedia data to a mobile personal communication device such as a cell phone, walkie talkie and so forth.

"The unique aspect of this patent however, rests with technologies and methodologies that could translate text messages into voice messages while in transit to other devices without using traditional Short Message protocols as defined in GSM."

Full details on The Macintosh News Network.

emily | 3:39 PM | Technology |
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