Guides

Guides

How to set up a session that helps, what it costs in credits, and where the line is when other people are in the room.

• 3 min readJapanese to French voice translation: a one-minute tutorialWatch Japanese speech translated into French. Choose the language pair, hear the replies and find your saved transcript in GPT Realtime Assistant.
• 4 min readTurn a live translation into a video, with your face and your voiceRecord GPT Realtime Assistant's live translation with your camera and voice, using Reel Screen Recorder on iPhone, iPad or Mac: the setup and the order.
• 6 min readHow to talk with family who speak another languageOne iPhone between you can translate a conversation with a grandparent or in-laws who speak another language, one direction at a time. How to set it up.
• 6 min readHow to translate at a doctor's or hospital appointmentA live translation app can translate a routine doctor's appointment abroad or for a parent, but it is not a certified interpreter. Setup, limits, privacy.
• 6 min readReal-time translator for travel: hotel, taxi, pharmacyA real-time translator for travelling: one iPhone puts what people say into your language at a hotel desk, in a taxi or at a pharmacy. Setup, data, limits.
• 6 min readTranslate a parent-teacher meeting, bank or council visitTranslate a parent-teacher meeting or a landlord, bank or council office visit live on one iPhone, and know when to ask for a professional interpreter.
• 7 min readChoosing a real-time translation app: what to test firstTest a real-time translation app on eight points before you rely on it: listening, replies, speed, screen, text size, offline use, privacy and cost.
• 7 min readPractise speaking a foreign language with AIPractise speaking a foreign language with AI: check what you said in a translation session, talk to a partner that corrects you, then read aloud.
• 6 min readLive captions for a face-to-face conversation on iPhoneGet live captions of a face-to-face conversation on iPhone or iPad: a live transcript in large text, where to put the phone, and what it is not.
• 6 min readOffline AI assistant on a Mac: local models, no internetRun an AI assistant offline on an Apple silicon Mac: download Whisper and Qwen once, then transcribe, answer and translate as text without the cloud.
• 7 min readAsk AI about a screenshot or photo, by voice or typingTo ask AI about a screenshot or photo, attach it to a session and ask out loud or by typing: an error, a form, a chart, a menu. iPhone, iPad, Mac.
• 7 min readTalk to an AI assistant hands-free, by voiceTo talk to an AI assistant hands-free, start a live session and speak: it answers as text beside the transcript, and you interrupt it by talking.
• 6 min readAI meeting assistant without a bot joining the callAn AI meeting assistant with no bot in the call: it listens through your device's microphone, or a Mac's system audio, and helps while the meeting runs.
• 6 min readReal-time AI help during a sales or client callFor real-time AI help on a sales or client call, start from the Client Discovery, Sales Demo or Negotiation template with your price list in it.
• 4 min readHow to get a live transcript of a meeting on iPhone, iPad or MacWhy a transcript written during the meeting beats one made from a recording afterwards, and how to run a live transcription session on iPhone, iPad or Mac.
• 3 min readHow to translate a conversation in real time on iPhone, iPad or MacUsing a live translation session as an interpreter: how it translates what is said into your language, how to set it up, where to put the device, and what it still gets wrong.
• 3 min readMeeting notes and action items, before the meeting endsHow to turn a live meeting into tasks with owners, dates and evidence while it is still happening — and why notes written afterwards lose the decisions.
• 3 min readHow to transcribe a lecture as it happensTranscribe a lecture live, photograph the board into the same session, and ask about what was said — plus the permission to ask for first.
• 3 min readPrivate transcription on a Mac: local models for audio that should not leave the roomTranscription and answers on an Apple silicon Mac with Whisper and Qwen run locally — what stays on the machine, what does not, and the trade-offs.
• 3 min readHow to transcribe a Zoom, Meet or Teams call on a MacCapture a video call's audio and screen on a Mac so the other side is transcribed too — the permission it needs and what to tell the people on the call.
• 3 min readPractising for a job interview out loud, with an AI interviewerThe interview template as a mock interviewer: answer out loud, get feedback, and why the practice belongs before the interview, not during it.
• 2 min readRehearsing a talk out loud, with the words highlighted as you readUsing karaoke readback to rehearse a presentation or practise a language: the text highlights word by word as you read it aloud, recognised on the device.
• 2 min readSetting up a session that helps: templates, instructions and answer lengthThe seventeen session templates, how to edit their instructions for a session, and the one setting — answer length — that decides whether live help helps.
• 3 min readRecording and transcribing other people: what to tell them, and what the law asksWhy a live transcript counts as recording, how consent rules differ by place, and a one-sentence way to ask first. General information, not legal advice.
• 2 min readWhat a session costs: subscription, credits and how they are spentHow the monthly subscription, the 2,000 included credits and the credit packs work, what a session spends credits on, and how to make them last longer.