双语阅读：乔布斯遗作 苹果将推出全功能电视.docVIP

双语阅读：乔布斯遗作 苹果将推出全功能电视 2011年11月01日08:49 iPhone link: The voice-controlled Siri personal assistant is designed so you can talk to it like a normal person - the ideal way to change channel and adjust the volume on Apples new TV?(dailymail.co.uk) It might spell the end of fiddling around for remote controls in between the sofa cushions. The upcoming big Apple TV will use iPhones Siri personal assistant as its main control method - and will use touch control as a back up. Leaks from Apples manufacturing chain say that Apple has been working on prototype sets since September - according to a design blueprint laid down by late CEO Steve Jobs. His eureka moment was realising that Siris voice control could be used to talk to the set. The quote I finally cracked it, in the recent biography by Walter Isaacson was misquoted in recent reports, reports the New York Times. Jobs was referring to the realisation that the television should be voice-controlled - using the natural-language algorithms of Siri so that people talk to the set as they would to someone sitting next to them on the sofa. Mr Jobs, who died earlier this month, told author Walter Isaacson: It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. Apple executive Jeff Robbin, who was behind the iPod and iTunes Store, is reportedly now guiding Apples internal development of the new TV effort. Its not the first attempt to bring more natural controls to televisions - companies such as One For All already make gesture-controlled remotes which you simply wag at the screen, and Microsofts Xbox Kinect camera can be controlled by voice. But the highly sophisticated Siri software could represent a huge leap forward for the technology. A third party analysis suggests the device will hit shelves by late next year or 2013, based on research of Apples patent portfolio, its investments in manufacturing facilities and securing supplies of LCD screens. Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller declined to comment on the Bloomberg report.