Apple will soon introduce AI features to the iPhone that can improve core applications and permit things like transcription of voice memos. Personally, that is something I’ve been working towards for a very long time, so I’m enthusiastic about it.
New transcription features coming soon to iPhone 15 and other models.
The next iPhone software is about to be unveiled on Monday, June 10, at this 12 months’s World Wide Developers Conference and will likely be released to the general public in the autumn. According to Apple Insider“Apple has been working on AI-powered summaries and greatly improved audio transcriptions for several of its next-generation operating systems. The new features are expected to deliver significant efficiency gains for users of the standard Notes, Voice Memos, and other apps.”
I even have to let you know that in almost every interview with Apple executives, I even have stressed that it could be great if Apple could introduce a transcription feature for voice memos. Transcribing interviews is by far essentially the most tedious a part of a journalist’s job.
And there are many other individuals who should transcribe and hate it as much as I do: students in lectures, people taking minutes at meetings, and so forth.
For this reason, I often bring a Google Pixel to interviews with Apple and other leading brands and am all the time gently teased about it.
The Pixel phones have by far the very best transcription app of any phone: Recorder. Although it’s an Android app, it’s exclusive to the Pixel.
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It transcribes in real time and on the device. While there are some great alternatives – the sensible Otter: Transcribe notes is a highlight – the simplicity of Reorder could be very convincing. Samsung recently introduced a transcription function and there’s a pleasant thing called Chat notewhich I will likely be testing intimately soon. But each transcribe the audio after the event, while Recorder converts sounds into text as they occur, which is the very best.
But Recorder may very well be higher. There are all the time loads of mistakes in names, words or punctuation that have to be corrected. But it’s still about 385 times higher than a full transcription.
According to the report, “The standard Voice Memos application that Apple includes across its device portfolio will be among the first to receive enhanced features. Early versions of the app provide a running transcript of each audio recording and work similarly to the company’s new Live Voicemail feature. The transcripts occupy the central area of ​​the application window, replacing the larger graphical representation of recorded audio found in the existing version of the app.”
So if Apple Insider is true, I am unable to wait for iOS 18.
