Location of Voice Memos transcripts in the file system?
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Where are the transcripts that are generated from recordings in the Voice Memos app stored in the file system?
I did a:
grep -r PATTERN ~/Library`
for a known unique-ish pattern from one of the transcripts. It's been running for 45 minutes and hasn't found any matches yet.
The audio recordings (*.m4a
) and *.waveform
files are stored here:
~/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.apple.VoiceMemos.shared/Recordings/
I noticed a CloudRecordings.db sqlite
database file (binary) in that directory, and none of the table names look obviously transcript-specific. I did the same grep command in this directory, and it completed and didn't find any matches.
$ sqlite3 -readonly ~/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.apple.VoiceMemos.shared/Recordings/CloudRecordings.db .tables
ACHANGE ANSCKRECORDZONEMOVERECEIPT
ANSCKDATABASEMETADATA ANSCKRECORDZONEQUERY
ANSCKEVENT ATRANSACTION
ANSCKEXPORTEDOBJECT ATRANSACTIONSTRING
ANSCKEXPORTMETADATA ZCLOUDRECORDING
ANSCKEXPORTOPERATION ZDATABASEPROPERTY
ANSCKHISTORYANALYZERSTATE ZENTITYREVISION
ANSCKIMPORTOPERATION ZFOLDER
ANSCKIMPORTPENDINGRELATIONSHIP ZMIGRATION
ANSCKMETADATAENTRY ZRECORDING
ANSCKMIRROREDRELATIONSHIP Z_METADATA
ANSCKRECORDMETADATA Z_MODELCACHE
ANSCKRECORDZONEMETADATA Z_PRIMARYKEY
I also did a:
find ~/Library/ -iname '*transcript*'
which returned 100 filenames/dirnames. One that looked maybe related was:
/Users/robbednark/Library//Accessibility/com.apple.RTTTranscripts.sqlite
Nothing obviously transcription-related in those table names either, and grep -r PATTERN ~/Library/Accessibility
completed without any matches.
$ sqlite3 -readonly ~/Library/Accessibility/com.apple.RTTTranscripts.sqlite .tables
ACHANGE ANSCKRECORDMETADATA
ANSCKDATABASEMETADATA ANSCKRECORDZONEMETADATA
ANSCKEVENT ANSCKRECORDZONEMOVERECEIPT
ANSCKEXPORTEDOBJECT ANSCKRECORDZONEQUERY
ANSCKEXPORTMETADATA ATRANSACTION
ANSCKEXPORTOPERATION ATRANSACTIONSTRING
ANSCKHISTORYANALYZERSTATE ZTTYCONTACTLIST
ANSCKIMPORTOPERATION ZTTYHISTORY
ANSCKIMPORTPENDINGRELATIONSHIP Z_METADATA
ANSCKMETADATAENTRY Z_MODELCACHE
ANSCKMIRROREDRELATIONSHIP Z_PRIMARYKEY
Asked by Rob Bednark
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Jan 18, 2025, 12:20 AM
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