Summaries, chat & action items
Chat with a transcript
Ask a recording questions and get answers drawn from what was actually said.
Updated 2026-06-14
Sometimes you do not want to reread a whole transcript, you just want one answer. Chat lets you ask a recording a question in plain language and get a reply based on its contents.
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Open a recording
Go to the recording you want to ask about.
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Open Chat
Choose the chat option on the recording's detail screen.
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Ask anything
Try questions like What did we decide about the budget, or Summarize the part about hiring.

Your questions stay on-device
Chat is answered on your device. The recording, your questions, and the answers are not uploaded to any server.
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Summarize a recording
Turn a transcript into Cornell notes, minutes, bullets, and more, on-device.
Send action items to Reminders
Pull the to-dos out of a recording and drop them into Apple Reminders.
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Find any word across all your recordings with fast, local full-text search.
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