iOS 14 alerts the hearing impaired when a fire alarm goes off

Monday started theWorldwide Developer Conference, and more particularly the Special Event the same evening. This opening presentation notably lifted the veil ona host of new features for each Apple OS, to rediscover in our summary, and especially for the one who runs iPhones. These should welcome its stable version by the fall,probably with four models from 5.4 to 6.7 inches and 5G compatible.

One of the features added in this edition makes it possible to warn deaf people or people with impaired hearing of potential risky or important noises to take into account. An additional tool in the options'accessibilitywhich had already leaked a few weeks earlier, although we were not able to verify it at the time.

[Feature] something I found in iOS 14 called sound recognition. It alerts the user if the iPhone detects a sound you want it to listen out for.fromiOSBeta

Other sounds detected

This solution included iniOS 14is therefore able to notice:

  • a barking dog
  • a meowing cat?
  • flowing water
  • certain household appliances
  • the house bell
  • someone knocking at the door
  • screams
  • baby crying
  • the fire or city siren?
  • fire alarm or carbon monoxide detector

The notifications then provided talk aboutSound recognition(sound recognition in French), and offer a quick summary of the event heard. While some will appreciate it to improve their daily lives, others will fear for theirconfidentialityWe remember Siri, who shared users' conversations even though they had not activated the voice assistant.. And here, it’s really about permanent listening that we’re talking about. Let's bet that the promise of personal data protection reiterated during the keynote holds good.

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By : Keleops AG