Accessibility & Assistive Tech · Recorded milestone
Voice control on phones
Recorded year2009
Apple's iPhone 3GS adds VoiceOver and Voice Control (2009), and Siri (2011) lets people use phones by speaking, without sight or touch.
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- Screen readerRecorded · 1986enables
- Dictation softwareRecorded · 1990enables
- SmartphoneRecorded · 1994enables
- Cloud computingRecorded · 2006requires
Led to
- Smart speakerRecorded · 2015enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.