Acronymer support

Acronymer uses Apple’s on-device speech recognition. The first time, your device may need Apple’s speech model for your language. Tap Install with iOS (or iPadOS or macOS) and the system downloads it once. After that, listening works offline. Acronymer itself doesn’t download the speech model; the system does.

On iPhone and iPad, open Settings > Privacy & Security > Microphone and turn on Acronymer. On a Mac, open System Settings > Privacy & Security > Microphone and turn on Acronymer. Audio is processed on your device and is never recorded or sent.

When an acronym could mean two things in the same field (POC: proof of concept or point of contact?), a model on your device reads the conversation and picks one. If Apple Intelligence is on, Acronymer uses it and you don’t need anything else.

If Apple Intelligence isn’t available, Acronymer offers to download Liquid AI’s d1-3B decision model once: a 1.67 GB file from Hugging Face. It’s checked before use and runs offline. Download it later in Settings > Decision model, or remove it there with Remove d1-3B. Without a model, Acronymer still picks meanings from the words said nearby.

When the same letters mean different things in two fields, the higher field wins. To change the order, open Library and drag the fields under “In use, by priority” (on iPhone and iPad, tap Reorder first).

During a meeting, touch and hold the acronym in the glossary (Control-click on a Mac) and choose It means something else, or tap the large acronym to see its other meanings and choose Use this. Your choice holds for the rest of the meeting. If a word isn’t an acronym at all, choose Not an acronym here.

To let the words said nearby decide between fields instead, turn on Settings > Meanings > Let the conversation choose between fields.

In Library, tap + and choose New acronym or New field. To add many at once, choose Import a list… and pick a CSV file: the acronym in the first column, its meaning in the second, and optionally a description in the third and keywords (words said near it, separated by commas) in the fourth.

acronym,meaning,description,keywords
URP,Unified Records Portal,Our new records system,"records,portal"
ZTB,Zero Trust Board,,"security,review"

A header row is optional; when there is one, columns can be in any order and named, for example, acronym, abbreviation or term, and meaning, expansion, stands for or definition. Tab- and semicolon-separated files work too, as do lists exported from Acronymer as JSON. To share one of your own fields with your team, open it in Library and use Export (a CSV file), or Export as JSON in its menu.

Acronyms you define out loud in a meeting (“the Unified Records Portal, or URP”) are used for the rest of that meeting, and you can save them to My Acronyms.

Everything stays in Acronymer’s storage on your device: your library, saved meetings, any transcripts you chose to keep and the d1-3B model if you downloaded it. Acronymer doesn’t send any of it anywhere.

• Delete a meeting by swiping it in Meetings, or with Delete in the meeting’s menu.
• Delete your own acronyms and fields in Library.
• Remove the d1-3B model in Settings > Decision model.
• Delete the app to remove everything.

Details are in the privacy policy.

Yes. On the Live screen, tap Try a demo meeting (on a Mac, choose Meeting > Try the Demo Meeting). A scripted program sync plays through so you can see acronyms appear, collect in the glossary and save to Meetings.

It stays on while listening by default. Change it in Settings > Listening.