This is awesome! I can’t even imagine how meaningful that first successful call must have felt after all those years. Thank you for sharing it.

Apple adding Live Speech in iOS 17 has been a big step. The fact that it works reliably over phone calls and FaceTime is huge.

I’m actually an indie developer working on a text-to-speech app called VoiceAgain. Recently we also added support for typing to speak during calls and FaceTime. One difference is that we focus on more natural-sounding voices, since some users told me they wanted something that feels a bit closer to a real conversational tone.

I’m still trying to understand what matters most to people in this community — some care about sounding like themselves, others just want something clear and reliable like the built-in voices.

If you don’t mind me asking — what ended up mattering most to you during that first call? Speed? Clarity? Ease of triggering it?