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How do I find what was said in something I listened to last week?
If Live Transcript was listening, the session is in History on your Mac. Type what you remember into Ask your history…, in plain words such as “the meeting last week” or “the audiobook and the video about cars”: the list narrows to the best matches as you type, and each result shows the passage that matched and why. Open one and the transcript jumps to that moment.
Live Transcript isn’t out yet: the download button on the home page starts working on release day.
What it understands
Dates (yesterday, last week, in September), apps (in FaceTime), kinds of listening (audiobook, video, meeting) and filler such as “when I was listening to…”. “A and B” looks for both. The Apps and Date menus and the filter chips narrow things further.
Ask a question
Ask a question and a short answer appears above the results, marked “Generated on this Mac”, with numbered links to the moments it used. If your history doesn’t contain the answer, it says so. Keyword searches don’t get an answer.
With and without Apple Intelligence
With Apple Intelligence, Apple’s on-device model writes each session’s title, one-line summary and topics, and the answers to questions. Without it, search still works on words and meaning, cards show the opening words, and questions don’t get a written answer.
Replay the moment
When audio was recorded, Play This Moment replays the passage you found. Search, its index, and the titles, summaries, topics and answers stay on your Mac and never use the network.
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