Apple is reportedly looking into granting Siri new superpowers.
A report from Business Insider says that Apple is going to add the ability to transcribe voicemails using Siri so that iPhone users will be able to read the messages that people leave after the tone rather than having to dial in and actually listen to them.
The report says the feature is on track for release early next year.
Google has long-offered voicemail transcription as part of its Google Voice service, though the results haven’t always been that good. Anyone who has used the service probably has a story or two to tell about times when a transcript was hilariously wrong.
The company recently announced that it was improving the quality of transcription on Google Voice.
Some see this as a sign that Apple has plans to launch a cell service of its own similar to Google’s Project Fi. – Washington Post