{"id":674012,"date":"2026-11-03T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674012\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T20:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:22:08","slug":"apples-latest-watchos-beta-includes-its-new-always-on-audio-intelligence-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674012\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s latest watchOS beta includes its new always-on Audio Intelligence features"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting today, Siri can tune into the Apple Watch\u2019s mic with Audio Intelligence features<\/a> that are available in the new watchOS 27.3 developer beta rolling out now. The two new additions are Siri Recap, which uses \u201cambient listening\u201d to generate summaries of your conversation, and Live Rewind, which generates text transcripts of the last 15 seconds of audio your watch\u2019s mic detected.<\/p>\n

Apple is also releasing<\/a> its redesigned Health app<\/a> for testing today in the iOS 27.3 developer beta, and announced expanded language support in global English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. It adds sections like a new Insights tab with summaries for heart, sleep, fitness, and other data that pop up during the day, a For You section with personalized recommendations, and health content like educational videos and articles.<\/p>\n

When it comes to the implications of an ambient, always-listening AI, Apple has released this Audio Intelligence
Privacy Overview (pdf)<\/a> about how it plans to protect users\u2019 privacy<\/a> when their watch is listening around the clock. It goes into detail about Apple\u2019s claims that users\u2019 raw audio \u201cis handled within dedicated hardware, is not saved as a file, and is not accessible to the operating system, apps, or Apple.\u201d According to Apple, \u201cIf you use iCloud with two-factor authentication and have a device passcode, any Siri Recap summary or Live Rewind text snippet you choose to save syncs across your devices end-to-end encrypted in the Siri app.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting today, Siri can tune into the Apple Watch\u2019s mic with Audio Intelligence features that are available in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[220,936,203,61,60,43,1535,216,80,2934],"class_list":["post-674012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-ai","tag-apple","tag-gadgets","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-smartwatch","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-wearable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}