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Here's how to use Apple's Animoji 'the new talking emoji that has your voice and facial expressions (AAPL)

Published by Business Insider on Wed, 13 Sep 2017


Apple is taking thehumble emojito a new level.The company unveiled a new iPhone feature on Tuesday that transformsthe popularimagesinto animateddigital characters that speak in their owners' voices and mimic their facial expressions.Meet Animojis.Appleuses the iPhone X's built-in facial recognition technology to create these lifelike characters. And you can send these characters in a message to your friends ' sort of like sending someone a video clip of yourself speaking, except in this case, you have been reincarnated as a digital cartoon character.Here's how it works:First, you choose from one of the twelve animoji characters, which include a panda bear, a chicken, an alien and even the famous poop emoji.You then speak into the phone, dictating the message you want to send. If you make a facial expression, like a raised eyebrow, the phone will notice and recreate the expression on the Animoji character.The Animoji tool is available within the iPhone X's iMessagefeature, and you candrop an animojias stickers directly into chats.You can also record looping video messages animated in real time along with your facial expressions.Right now the Animoji technology can recognize more than 50 facial movements, Apple said.'If you were wondering what humanity would do when given access to the most advancedfacial tracking technology available, you now have your answer," said Apple executiveCraig Federighi while turning his face into a talking poo emoji. Note that the Animoji feature is only available on the forthcoming iPhone X model, which starts at $999. The new iPhone 8 and 8s models that are also coming out this fall do not have facial recognition built-in, so you can't create animojis. And of course, the Animoji can only be seen by a friend with an iPhone ' Android users are out of luck.Check out Animojis in action (at the 1:40 mark).SEE ALSO:IT'S OFFICIAL: This is the iPhone XJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: Here's the new iPhone 8
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