Future Apple devices may offer audio and video features based on a user’s face, voice — Apple World Today

A newly granted Apple patent (number 10,861,210) shows that future Apple devices may offer audio and video features based on a user’s face and voice.

The invention involves systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for providing audio and/or video effects based at least in part on facial features and/or voice feature characteristics of the user. For example, video and/or an audio signal of the user may be recorded by a device. Voice audio features and facial feature characteristics may be extracted from the voice audio signal and the video, respectively. The facial features of the user may be used to modify features of a virtual avatar to emulate the facial feature characteristics of the user.