If you're the type that needs a lot of speech transcriptions from audio recordings, your life is about to become a lot easier. For anyone who conducts interviews on an iPhone, you know how aggravating it can be attempting to get a text transcription after the fact. There are AI programs that can help, of course, but it turns out Apple is way ahead of the game, and the company has brought live transcriptions to the Voice Memos app through Apple Intelligence. To use live translation with Apple's Voice Memos app, you'll need an iPhone 12 or newer running iOS 18 or later. However, the new live transcription feature is an outright godsend for anyone who frequently records through the Voice Memos app, so let's take a quick look at its capabilities.