iOS 10 Audio transcription service: For OS X please!

Business Insider reports that Apple are testing a voicemail transcription service that might debut in iOS 10:

iCloud Voicemail can relay information about where you are and why you can’t pick up the phone to certain people. But the coolest feature of the service is that Siri will transcribe any incoming voicemails, just like it does with anything else you say to it.

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Multiple Apple employees are currently testing iCloud Voicemail. Business Insider understands that if the service works reliably enough then it is currently scheduled to be launched in 2016, presumably with the iOS 10 mobile operating system.

Cloud-based transcription would also be very useful for video editing.

Once Siri for OS X can transcribe audio, I’ll point it to a few TB of video clips to add some useful metadata for editing!

If clips already have fully transcribed text included as metadata before being imported into Final Cut,  features that search, change or display that metadata won’t require patent licences associated with working with scripts in editing software.