Apple Watch Gets Always-On Siri Listening in New Beta
Apple's new watchOS 27.3 developer beta lets Siri use the Apple Watch's microphone for new Audio Intelligence features. One, Siri Recap, uses ambient listening to create summaries of your conversations. The features are in a test version first, so they are not yet part of the everyday watch experience.
Quick glossaryApple, Audio Intelligence, ambient listening
- Apple
- A US tech company best known for the iPhone, the Mac and the Apple Watch.
- Audio Intelligence
- Apple's name for AI features that make sense of sounds and speech picked up by a device's microphone.
- ambient listening
- Keeping a device's microphone switched on in the background to catch nearby speech for later use.
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