Apple announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that iPhones will soon get call recording and transcription features in iOS 18. This feature automatically notifies call participants that the call is being recorded.
Record and transcribe live calls directly from your phone app, the company says. During the demo, Apple showed that a sound wave appears on the call screen, indicating that the call is being recorded.
After recording is complete, the user can take the audio file and transcribe it in the Notes app. Apple Intelligence helps create a summary for the user.
Please note that transcripts are available in English (USA, UK, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore), Spanish (USA, Mexico, Spain), French (France) and German (Germany). , Japanese (Japan), Mandarin (Mainland China, Taiwan), Cantonese (Mainland China, Hong Kong), Portuguese (Brazil).
Other new features of the phone application include call history, automatic number completion and the ability to quickly change the SIM card.
Take and transcribe notes with the Notes app
In addition to recording and transcribing recorded calls, users can also record and transcribe audio from within the Notes app.
“Record audio sessions in Notes and generate live audio transcripts that can be searched and combined with comments, checklists, and other documents,” says Apple.
This feature is available on iPhone 12 and later in English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Ireland), English (New Zealand), English (South Africa), English (UK), and English (US).
According to Apple, the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will be the only smartphones with advanced Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18.
Other AI features coming to iPhone include new writing tools, voice capabilities, long text summarization, notification prioritization, and more. In addition to iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia, Apple has also integrated ChatGPT access into iOS 18.
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