Report: Apple TV may gain Siri dictation, Bluetooth keyboard support


Juli Clover for MacRumors:

With the new dictation option, it's now possible for Apple TV owners to dictate text and spell user names and passwords rather than typing them. After installing tvOS 9.2 beta 3, users are prompted to enable or disable dictation.

The voice search is kind of hit and miss for me, but voice input sounds interesting. The input system on the Apple TV to me is crazy bad. The first experience with the Apple TV is the weird horizontal bar of characters. Thankfully the iOS Remote app is now compatible and things are much better.

Being able to speak characters for an account and password doesn't sound like a lot of fun, but it may be better than than horizontal character bar.

Also rumored is upcoming support for Bluetooth keyboards. So, if you have one of those stashed somewhere in the living room, that would be an even better option for those times when you need to input some text.