Forward-looking: Apple has filed a patent that could allow an iMessage to be read aloud in the sender's own voice, which would be an improvement over other methods of creating audible messages, such as sending audio recordings or using Siri to speak the text. Being able to hear messages in the sender's voice might not seem like the most pressing technical advancement, but it would likely be welcomed by older family members and partners/spouses who want to hear loved ones' messages spoken aloud as if they were in the same room. It's causing anger among voice actors as Findaway Voices, an audiobook distributor, gave Apple permission to use its audiobook files to train the machine learning model employed for Cupertino's audiobooks program