Pixel Recorder’s summaries are actually useful on the Google Pixel 9
The Google Pixel 9 can summarize much longer recordings than the Pixel 8.
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- The Pixel Recorder app on the Google Pixel 9 can summarize transcripts of recordings that are over half an hour in length.
- In contrast, the same app on the Google Pixel 8 Pro can only summarize transcripts of recordings that are about fifteen minutes or less.
- The Pixel Recorder app uses Gemini Nano, which is upgraded on the Pixel 9, to summarize transcripts on-device.
The Pixel Recorder app is one of the best Pixel-exclusive features. It’s incredibly handy for those of us who need to record meetings, conduct interviews, or just save a voice note for later. The reason it’s so handy is because of its excellent, on-device transcription feature that runs in real-time. On some Pixel phones, the app can even generate a bullet point summary of your transcripts. Unfortunately, the Pixel Recorder’s summarization feature has been fairly useless so far, but that’s thankfully changing with the release of the Google Pixel 9.
To preserve privacy, the Pixel Recorder app uses an on-device AI model to generate summaries of your recordings. This on-device AI model is Google’s Gemini Nano, the mobile-optimized version of Google’s Gemini large language model (LLM). Although Gemini Nano is available on the entire Google Pixel 8 series, their version is the original one that Google released late last year.
