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How accurate is Apple’s new transcription AI? We tested it against Whisper and Parakeet


The fact that Apple’s new transcription API is faster than Whisper is great news. But how accurate is it? We tested it out.

As I pointed out recently, while Whisper is top of mind and still a pretty good transcription model, OpenAI has moved away from it. So the results might slightly vary for others,” and his tests got me curious regarding how Apple and OpenAI would pit against NVIDIA’s Parakeet, which is by far the fastest transcription model out there. But the fact that it runs natively, with no reliance on third-party APIs or external installs, is a big deal, especially as developer adoption ramps up and Apple continues to iterate.

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