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Andy Edser

Microsoft might be planning to let AI loose on your local video and audio files with Windows 11 'intelligent media search'

Closeup of the new Copilot key coming to Windows 11 PC keyboards.

Microsoft's Recall feature was, I think it's fair to say, not entirely well received. The idea that Windows 11 would take screenshots of your desktop regularly to provide you with a searchable history might have seemed useful to some, but privacy and security concerns meant Microsoft had to backtrack pretty quickly.

Well, how about Windows AI taking a looksie at your local media files? Twitter user @XenoPanther has been digging around in the latest Windows Insider Preview Build and has apparently found reference to something called "intelligent media search" (via TweakTown). According to XenoPanther, the feature is planned to allow search by "spoken words in your indexed video or audio files".

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