Later this year, Apple hopes to bring system-level real-time transcription and summarization capabilities to more of its devices, as the iPhone maker looks to harness the power of artificial intelligence to make many of its core apps more efficient.
The company is developing AI-based summarization and advanced transcription capabilities for several of its operating systems.
These new features should bring significant productivity gains to users of Notes, Voice Memos, and other apps.
Apple is currently testing these features as additional features in several app updates planned for the iOS 18 release later in 2024.
It should also find its way into corresponding apps in macOS 15 and iPadOS 18.
Apple's default Voice Memos app on a number of its devices is expected to be one of the first to benefit from the updated functionality.
The modern version of the app provides playback recordings of each recording and works similarly to the company's live voicemail feature.
The text transcription occupies the central area of the application window and replaces the graphical representation of the recorded audio in the current version of the application.
The transcription feature will be available in the next version of the Notes app.
Preview versions of both apps have a special bubble-shaped copy button. Tapping the new bubble will display a transcript of the audio recorded in the app.
Voice transcription brings new context to the audio recording feature in the Notes app, as the update adds the ability to record an AI-generated audio summary that provides a basic text summary of item keys.
AI summarization capabilities are expected to improve the Notes app along with new real-time recording and transcription options within the app.
This triple functionality enables a variety of practical applications and relieves you of the heavy burden of processing large amounts of data for critical focus.
Apple makes every effort to ensure that the audio transcription and summarization features provide accurate results and preserve the original audio as well as AI-generated transcripts and summaries to ensure that source information is not lost during the transcription or summarization process.
The new features are part of Apple's broader activities in the field of artificial intelligence.