Apple intends to expand the capabilities of its voice assistant Siri. It is planned that the service will be able to answer incoming calls unless the phone's owner is not around, tell, where did the caller and why can't answer the call. The caller will offer to leave a voice message that Siri independently converts to text.

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Apple intends to expand the capabilities of its voice assistant Siri. It is planned that the service will be able to answer incoming calls unless the phone's owner is not around, tell, where did the caller and why can't answer the call. The caller will offer to leave a voice message that Siri independently converts to text.

a Feature called iCloud Voicemail is currently under development and scheduled for release next year along with iOS version 10. While the extended functionality of Siri is only available for employees of Apple. The first details about their own Voicemail Apple appeared in 2012 in the number of patent applications. There was described a similar system with translation of voice messages into text.

But Apple is not the pioneer in this field. For several years, provides a similar service to Google Voice. He earned in the U.S. in 2011, but did not become especially popular on a global scale. Google Voice can transcribe voice messages into text, but the main problem is the accuracy of the transcription. Over the past year with the help of neural networks were able to reduce errors by 49%.