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What's new in 1.0.3 FEEL THE SOUND Understand what is happening around you through the vibration of your iPhone, without looking at the screen. • Feel every word: turn on Talking and your iPhone taps out each word as it is captioned. A crisp tap for p, t and k, a buzz for s and sh, a soft hum for m and n, a longer swell for vowels • Each speaker has their own feel. Questions lift at the end, and shouting, whispering and laughing all feel different • Feel your own typed messages as OVALS says them aloud • Feel the music: the beat, the bass and the melody reach your hands, with sharp hits for the drums, a rumble underneath and the tune on top. Maximum vibration makes it stronger • Live concert keeps the lyrics in step with what is actually sung • Find it in Menu > OVALS feel the sound ALSO NEW • See the sound: your transcript background now moves with the voices and the music around you, with new backgrounds such as Ravine, Contour tide, Dot grid and Grid scan • Wake up without sound: set alarm times in Menu > Sound Alerts and your iPhone vibrates and flashes until you switch it off • Wake me if I hear: choose sounds such as a smoke alarm, a crying baby or a knock at the door. When OVALS hears one, it wakes you with vibration and flash, and with a very loud alarm sound if you switch it on • A What's New tour in the app shows where each of these lives
OVALS turns your iPhone into your ears and your voice, and now you can feel sound too. Speech to text captions the room live and tells you WHO is saying what. Turn on Voice Identification and OVALS drops your iPhone's processor for an advanced online engine: whispers from across the room are captioned in 0.7 seconds, machine-trained voice recognition tells the voices apart, and each speaker you've registered appears by name. Text to speech lets you type, or tap a saved phrase, and says it out loud in a natural voice. All at the same time, in the same conversation. NEW: FEEL THE SOUND • Understand what is happening around you through the vibration of your iPhone. Keep your eyes on the person, not the screen • Talking: your iPhone taps out each word as it is captioned. A crisp tap for p, t and k, a buzz for s and sh, a soft hum for m and n, a longer swell for vowels • Each speaker has their own feel. Questions lift at the end, and shouting, whispering and laughing all feel different • Music: sharp hits for the drums, a rumble for the bass and the tune on top, on your iPhone or Apple Watch • Feel your own typed words as OVALS says them aloud KNOW WHO'S TALKING • Every voice around you becomes live word-by-word captions. Each person gets their own color, so a busy room reads like a group chat • Captions land under a second behind the speaker, with industry-leading accuracy across accents, dialects and noisy rooms • Register up to 50 voices to see them by name. Unknown voices are still told apart on the spot • 55+ caption languages, including bilingual modes that follow two languages mixed in the same conversation • Smart Filter labels background speech, TV and passersby, so your conversation stays clear • Looked away for a minute? Catch-up Summary recaps what you missed • A floating window keeps captions on top of any app, and on-device captioning keeps working even offline YOUR VOICE, AT THE SAME TIME • Type while the captions roll and OVALS says it out loud in a natural voice: read the room and answer it, both at once • Choose from hundreds of voices from Apple, OpenAI and ElevenLabs, or clone your own voice privately, right on your iPhone • Saved Phrases keep the things you say most one tap away • AI Quick Reply reads the conversation and suggests replies that fit. Steer the tone, and give it notes it remembers REAL PHONE CALLS • Call any number and read the whole call, word by word, as it happens • Reply by speaking, typing, or tapping a saved phrase. The other side hears a natural voice (OVALS Call is not a replacement for your phone and cannot make emergency calls.) HEAR THE WORLD • Sound Alerts flag doorbells, alarms and sirens, and notify you even when you're outside the app • Name Alert taps you on the shoulder when your name, or any word you choose, is said • Every alert can flash your screen or camera light, so you never need to hear it ON YOUR APPLE WATCH • Live captions with speaker names, translations, sound and name alerts, saved phrases and AI Quick Reply on your wrist • Quick-dial captioned phone calls from your wrist • Use the watch as a remote mic, or transcribe directly on the watch with no iPhone nearby TRANSLATE LIVE • Captions arrive translated as people speak, right under the original • Type in your language and OVALS speaks it aloud in theirs SEE THE VOLUME • When someone shouts or whispers, the caption shows it with a [shouting] or [whispers] tag, or shouted words grow big and bold while whispers fade • A live loudness bar along the bottom edge rises and falls with the room OVALS MUSIC • Song recognition names the song and shows its words karaoke style. No lyrics? OVALS captions the singing live instead OVALS is free to download and use with on-device captions and voices. Voice Identification, hundreds of natural voices, phone calls, translation and higher limits come with the Plus, Pro and Max plans. Terms of Use: https://ovalsapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://ovalsapp.com/privacy