Polish a recording
Use AI to clean up the text, re-translate with context, and name the recording automatically.
- macOS
- iPhone
- iPad
Live transcription favors speed, so it can contain spelling mistakes, missing punctuation, or translations that treat each sentence on its own. Polish reprocesses the whole recording after the meeting with a language model, so the result is cleaner and more coherent.
What Polish does
- Cleans up the transcript: adds punctuation and capitalization, fixes misheard words, names, and terms, and removes filler words like "um" and "uh".
- Re-translates with context (if the recording has a translation): each sentence is translated again with the sentences before and after it in view, so it sounds more natural. Your personal glossary is applied at this step too.
- Names the recording if the title is still the default name. A title you set yourself is never overwritten.
How to run it
On the recording's detail screen, in the Transcript tab, click Polish translation (the recording has a translation) or Polish transcript (text only). You see progress such as Polishing … n/N.
The app also runs it once automatically for a recording saved within the last 3 minutes, if it meets the requirements below. On iPhone and iPad, after this automatic run the app also creates a summary if the recording doesn't have one yet.
Requirements
Polish needs a capable language model, so it isn't always available.
| Device | Recording with a translation | Text-only recording |
|---|---|---|
| Mac | The Translation engine must be Cloud | A text-generation engine: Apple Intelligence (macOS 26), a local model, or Cloud |
| iPhone, iPad | The Translation engine must be Cloud | Needs a cloud model assigned to Translation |
If the requirements aren't met, the Polish button doesn't appear. See Add a cloud connection to set one up.
If it stops partway
The app shows the message Polish stopped with the reason (usually an error from the cloud provider) and keeps what it already processed. Click again to continue. Polish runs in the background, so leaving the screen doesn't interrupt it.