New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing
THE SO WHAT
Continuous, on-wrist transcription moves AI from “ask and answer” to ambient capture—your meetings, hallway chats, and calls become structured data by default. If you build productivity or health products, assume a world where Apple owns the primary stream and your value is in what you do with summaries and signals, not raw audio.
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