Details the design and architecture of Apple Watch's new "Audio Intelligence" features. In particular, regarding Siri Recap which has been discussed elsewhere:
*How Siri Recap respects those around you*
By design, Siri Recap does not create a recording, does not produce a verbatim transcript, and does not identify and attribute speakers. The output is a brief, high-level summary, comparable to notes a person might write after a conversation. There is no audible signal because no raw audio is retained, and there is no way to reconstruct the original audio from a Siri Recap or share raw audio with anyone.
Want to be clear that this is not me endorsing the feature. It's clear Apple did think about the privacy/social implications of the design, but it's also clear to me that there are real and perceived problems with having automatic conversation notes. Real differences from written notes:
- It was recorded and transcribed by a machine, not a human
- There are time stamps and locations
- You can't tell someone is using this feature (it is obvious when someone is writing notes during a conversation)
As far as perceptions goes, it feels very tone deaf of Apple to launch this feature in this way at this time. Read the fucking room guys.
Details the design and architecture of Apple Watch's new "Audio Intelligence" features. In particular, regarding Siri Recap which has been discussed elsewhere:
*How Siri Recap respects those around you* By design, Siri Recap does not create a recording, does not produce a verbatim transcript, and does not identify and attribute speakers. The output is a brief, high-level summary, comparable to notes a person might write after a conversation. There is no audible signal because no raw audio is retained, and there is no way to reconstruct the original audio from a Siri Recap or share raw audio with anyone.
Want to be clear that this is not me endorsing the feature. It's clear Apple did think about the privacy/social implications of the design, but it's also clear to me that there are real and perceived problems with having automatic conversation notes. Real differences from written notes: - It was recorded and transcribed by a machine, not a human - There are time stamps and locations - You can't tell someone is using this feature (it is obvious when someone is writing notes during a conversation)
As far as perceptions goes, it feels very tone deaf of Apple to launch this feature in this way at this time. Read the fucking room guys.