Google is preparing an interesting feature: Pixel will remember music and conversations around you

The Audio Memory feature currently only exists in the code of a system application, yet it strongly suggests where Google is heading with Pixels: the phone should remember sounds around you and turn them into notes. Details about the yet-to-be-released gadget were described by two trustworthy foreign websites.

What is Audio Memory supposed to do?

According to 9to5Google and Android Authority, the feature will expand today’s Now Playing — the background song recognition on Pixels. Audio Memory is intended to go a step further and monitor the music you hear throughout the day around you and from other applications, keeping a continuous record of it.

One of the texts reportedly also mentions capturing “important conversations” and transcribing them into notes, similar to how AI meeting recorders do. However, both sites point out that this part is only briefly present in the code so far — so it might be more of a future goal than a feature ready for launch.

Privacy to be safeguarded by on-device processing

According to the found code, Google is relying on on-device processing via the so-called Private Compute Core. Songs are to be recognized from a local database; only a short “digital fingerprint” of a song that cannot be recognized locally is reportedly sent out of the phone.

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Crucially, conversations and background sounds are reportedly not sent out of the device at all, according to Google’s code. If this holds true in the final version, it would address the main concern that similar “listening” features raise.

When Audio Memory will arrive

Caution is advised here. The feature currently only exists in the analysis of the Android System Intelligence app (code-named blueflax) and Google has not officially introduced it. Neither the launch date nor the list of supported Pixels are known yet. 9to5Google also admits a more modest variant — that it might ultimately be “just” audio recording from phone calls.

Would you want your Pixel to remember sounds around you — or is that beyond the line of privacy?

Sources: 9to5Google, Android Authority