Here’s what it’s like to use Audio Intelligence on the Apple Watch

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Title: Here’s what it’s like to use Audio Intelligence on the Apple Watch

标题：在 Apple Watch 上使用音频智能（Audio Intelligence）是种什么体验

The watchOS 27.3 beta adds Live Rewind and Siri Recap to the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4.

watchOS 27.3 测试版为 Apple Watch Series 12 和 Ultra 4 增加了“实时回放”（Live Rewind）和“Siri 摘要”（Siri Recap）功能。

It’s impossible to paint a full picture of what Audio Intelligence on the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 will be right now. The watchOS 27.3 developer beta just dropped earlier this afternoon, and these features are meant to be lived with in day-to-day life. We’re definitely going to do that over the next few weeks at The Verge. That said, here are some initial impressions.

目前还无法全面描绘 Apple Watch Series 12 和 Ultra 4 上音频智能功能的完整图景。watchOS 27.3 开发者测试版于今天下午刚刚发布，这些功能旨在融入日常生活中使用。在接下来的几周里，我们《The Verge》团队一定会进行深入体验。话虽如此，以下是一些初步印象。

What’s newly available today is Live Rewind and Siri Recap. The former lets you see a transcript of the last 15 seconds, while the latter provides high-level summaries of your conversations. (The other two Audio Intelligence features have been available for the last few weeks. I wrote about those in my Series 12 review.) And as always, this is the developer beta. These features could still change quite a bit before a final version arrives for the public.

今天新推出的功能是“实时回放”和“Siri 摘要”。前者让你能看到过去 15 秒的转录文本，而后者则提供对话的高级摘要。（另外两项音频智能功能在过去几周已经可用，我在 Series 12 的评测中写过它们。）一如既往，这是开发者测试版。在最终版本面向公众发布之前，这些功能仍可能会有相当大的变动。

The first thing I noticed is that these features are not turned on by default. I wasn’t expecting anything different, but it’s worth remembering that these features don’t automatically turn every Apple Watch into a surveillance device. Audio Intelligence requires the latest Apple Watch hardware, a compatible version of iOS (so in this case, the iOS 27.3 developer beta), and someone has to actively choose to enable these features. You can download the beta and double-press the crown to initiate a Live Rewind. It won’t do anything. You must opt in via your iPhone’s Watch app. Same goes for Siri Recap. Enabling Live Rewind also requires an initial microphone calibration with your phone.

我注意到的第一件事是，这些功能默认并未开启。我对此并不意外，但值得记住的是，这些功能并不会自动将每一块 Apple Watch 变成监控设备。音频智能需要最新的 Apple Watch 硬件、兼容的 iOS 版本（在本例中为 iOS 27.3 开发者测试版），并且必须有人主动选择启用这些功能。你可以下载测试版并双击表冠来启动“实时回放”，但它不会有任何反应。你必须通过 iPhone 上的 Watch 应用进行授权。Siri 摘要也是如此。启用“实时回放”还需要与手机进行初始麦克风校准。

Privacy-wise, Apple has publicly available support documentation about its approach to these features. I’m not weighing in on how well it executes them in this hands-on. But Apple has pretty clear messaging in the onboarding process. There are quite a few customization options for when Siri Recap is active. You can get pretty granular. For example, you can have Siri Recap on only at the office during weekdays from 1PM to 4PM if that’s when you have meetings. This is hard to convey to bystanders, and I think ethical use should come with an in-person heads-up to the people you frequently interact with.

在隐私方面，苹果提供了关于其处理这些功能方式的公开支持文档。我在这篇上手体验中不对其执行效果进行评价，但苹果在引导过程中传达的信息非常明确。Siri 摘要在激活时有相当多的自定义选项，你可以设置得非常细致。例如，如果你在工作日的下午 1 点到 4 点有会议，你可以仅在这段时间开启 Siri 摘要。这一点很难向旁人传达，我认为合乎道德的使用方式应当是提前告知你经常互动的人。

Live Rewind, so far, has worked as described — with the heavy caveat that I’ve only tested it in my quiet home office with my spouse. Even so, it takes a hot second to learn the timing of a double press. My spouse noticed the audible chime signaling the feature is in use, though they didn’t notice the animation. I’ll have to see how this fares in louder environments. Siri accurately captured our attempts to get my cat to roll over, though in subsequent tests, it misheard a word or two.

到目前为止，“实时回放”的功能表现如描述一致——但需要重点说明的是，我仅在安静的家庭办公室里与配偶进行了测试。即便如此，掌握双击的节奏仍需要一点时间。我的配偶注意到了提示功能正在使用的声音，但没有注意到动画。我还需要看看它在嘈杂环境下的表现。Siri 准确地捕捉到了我们试图让猫打滚的尝试，尽管在随后的测试中，它听错了一两个词。

I’m more hesitant to comment on Siri Recap. It’s not just because I haven’t had many organic, lengthy spoken conversations yet since downloading the beta. (Siri did not deem my brief conversation with my spouse as worthy enough for recapping.) But I won’t really get a sense for how this feels until I’ve tested it in a wide variety of scenarios. Will it work if I talk to myself aloud? How well does it filter out gossip? How will this change how people speak to me? That’ll be the true test of this feature and Apple’s bystander privacy claims.

对于“Siri 摘要”，我持更谨慎的态度。这不仅是因为自下载测试版以来，我还没有进行过太多自然的、长篇幅的口头对话。（Siri 认为我与配偶的简短交谈不足以进行摘要。）但在我于各种场景中测试它之前，我无法真正感受到它的体验。如果我自言自语，它会工作吗？它过滤闲聊的效果如何？这会如何改变人们与我交谈的方式？这将是对该功能以及苹果关于旁观者隐私声明的真正考验。

My first Siri Recap was for an editorial planning meeting for a story I’m working on. It was decent at identifying different topics discussed, and I was impressed that it stripped out some sensitive information. Any outsider looking at these notes would be terribly confused. Ironically, it meant that this summary wasn’t the most useful for my job.

我的第一次 Siri 摘要是针对我正在撰写的一篇报道的编辑策划会议。它在识别讨论的不同主题方面表现不错，令我印象深刻的是它剔除了一些敏感信息。任何外人看到这些笔记都会感到非常困惑。讽刺的是，这意味着这份摘要对我的工作来说并不是最实用的。

What I will say is that I’ve been testing the Amazon Bee Frontier for the past few weeks. In the little time I’ve spent with the watchOS 27.3 beta, the differences between Audio Intelligence and the Bee are very clear. The latter has more of what I’d call an AI-forwardness. Bee, for example, offers insights about the emotional tone of a conversation. I’ve also found that the AI can be a bit judgy about insights and takeaways. Live Rewind is just a straight transcript. Apple’s said publicly that Siri Recap is meant to be highly factual notes to jog a person’s memory. That rings true based on my first one. And, as far as I can tell, there is no commerce angle for Siri Recaps, whereas Bee has an Amazon integration that surfaces buying suggestions based on conversations.

我想说的是，过去几周我一直在测试 Amazon Bee Frontier。在体验 watchOS 27.3 测试版的这段时间里，音频智能与 Bee 之间的区别非常明显。后者具有更多我所称的“AI 前瞻性”。例如，Bee 提供关于对话情感基调的见解。我还发现该 AI 在见解和要点方面有时会显得有些主观。而“实时回放”只是纯粹的转录。苹果公开表示，Siri 摘要旨在成为帮助人们唤起记忆的高度事实性笔记。根据我的第一次体验，这确实属实。而且据我所知，Siri 摘要没有商业化倾向，而 Bee 则集成了亚马逊功能，会根据对话内容提供购买建议。

In any case, I’ll be diving deep into these features in the days to come. Let us know in the comments what you’re most curious about.

无论如何，在接下来的日子里，我将深入研究这些功能。请在评论区告诉我们你最感兴趣的内容。