View a Voice Memos transcription on Mac
On Macs with Apple silicon, speech in your audio recordings can be recognized and transcribed to text in Voice Memos (not available in all countries or regions). You can view the transcription while you’re recording or after.
If you open a recording made in an earlier version of Voice Memos (macOS 14 or earlier), Voice Memos will transcribe it automatically if it includes recorded speech.
View a transcription while recording
Go to the Voice Memos app
on your Mac.Click
to begin recording.Click
to watch the transcription live.The waveform disappears temporarily, and the transcription appears, with the current word highlighted. To return to the waveform view, click
again.Click
to pause recording; click 
to continue.To save the recording, click Done.
View or copy transcribed text after recording
Go to the Voice Memos app
on your Mac.Click the recording with the transcript you want to view.
Click
to view the transcript.Select the text you want to copy, Control-click it, then choose Copy.
You can open another document—a Mail message or text file, for example—and paste the text into it.
Search for text in titles and transcriptions
Go to the Voice Memos app
on your Mac.In the search field, enter the text you want to find.
The list shows only recordings with that text—either in the title or in the audio transcription.
When you select a term in the transcription, the playhead appears at that location in the audio waveform.