The only thing Apple is behind on in the AI race is LLMs.

They've been vastly ahead of everyone else with things like text OCR, image element recognition / extraction, microphone noise suppression, etc.

iPhones have had these features 2-5 years before Android did.

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michaelcampbell 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> had these features 2-5 years before Android did.

"first" isn't always more important than "best". Apple has historically been ok with not being first, as long as it was either best or very obviously "much better". It always, well, USED TO focus on best. It has lost its way in that lately.

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laweijfmvo a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apple’s AI powered image editor (like removing something from the background) is near unusable. Samsung’s is near magic, Google’s seems great. So there’s a big gap here.

	▲	m463 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> unusable apple is so hit or miss. I think the image ocr is great and usable. I can take a picture of a phone number and dial it. but trying to edit a text field is such a nightmare. (try to change "this if good" to "this is good" on iphone with your fingers is non-apple cumbersome)
	▲	jorvi 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		That is rather funny because I think Google's and Samsung's AI image actions are completely garbage, butchering things to the point where I'd rather do it manually on my desktop or use prompt editing (which to Google's credit Gemini is fantastic at). Whereas Apple's is flawless in discerning everything within a scene or allowing me to extract single items from within a picture. For example say, a backpack in the background.
	▲	adastra22 a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		That is unrelated to and unmentioned in the post you are responding to.
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	▲	FridgeSeal a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well if I ever used an slop-image-generator, that’d be an issue, but as I don’t, it’s a bit of a non-event!

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giancarlostoro 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

TTS is absolutely horrible on iOS. I have nearly driven into a wall when trying to use it whilst driving and it goofs up what I've said terribly. For the love of all things holy, will someone at Apple finally fix text to speech? It feels like they last touched it in 2016. My phone can run offline LLMs and generate images but it can't understand my words.

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galleywest200 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> I have nearly driven into a wall when trying to use it whilst driving and it goofs up what I've said terribly.

People should not be using their phones while driving anyways. My iPhone disables all notifications, except for Find My notifications, while driving. Bluetooth speaker calls are an exception.

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wolvoleo 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It sounds like you mean STT not TTS there?

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giancarlostoro a day ago | parent [-]

You're right, in my rage I typod, its really frustrating, even friends will text me and their text makes no sense, and 2 minutes later "STUPID VOICE TO TEXT" I have a few friends who drive trucks, so they need to be able to use their voice to communicate.

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delecti a day ago | parent | next [-]

Better speech transcription is cool, but that feels kinda contrived. Phone calls exist, so do voice messages sent via texting apps, and professional drivers can also just wait a bit to send messages if they really must be text; they're on the job, but if it's really that urgent they can pull over.

	▲	jimbokun a day ago \| parent [-]
		They can also use paper maps instead of GPS.

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wolvoleo a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I have to say that OpenAI's Whisper model is excellent. If you could leverage that somehow I think it would really improve. I run it locally myself on an old PC with 3060 card. This way I can run whisper large which is still speedy on a GPU especially with faster-whisper. Added bonus is the language autodetection which is great because I speak 3 languages regularly.

I think there's even better models now but Whisper still works fine for me. And there's a big ecosystem around it.

	▲	nomel a day ago \| parent [-]
		I wonder what the wattage difference is between the iPhone STT and Whisper? How many seconds would the iPhone battery last?

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fragmede 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Kind of a big "only" though. Siri is still shit and it's been 15 years since initial release.

	▲	0x38B 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		When I'm driving and tell Siri, "Call <family member name>", sometimes instead of calling, it says, "To who?", and I can't get it to call no matter what I do.
	▲	asdff a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Amazing how its been 15 years and it still can't discern 15 from 50 when you talk to it.