Apple's New Speech APIs Outpace Whisper for Fast Transcription

28 epaga 6 6/18/2025, 11:28:56 AM macstories.net ↗

Comments (6)

czarofvan · 53m ago
WER scores?
ewuhic · 4h ago
Not open source/weights, FU apple
eviks · 6h ago
unfortunately no actual measure of quality given in the article
1659447091 · 2h ago
>> By harnessing SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber on-device, the command line tool tore through the 7GB video file a full 55% faster than MacWhisper’s Large V3 Turbo model, with no noticeable difference in transcription quality.

    App           Transcripiton Time
    --------------------------------
    Yap (uses Apple APIs)       0:45
    MacWhisper (Large V3 Turbo) 1:41
    VidCap                      1:55
    MacWhisper (Large V2)       3:55
>> All three transcription workflows had similar trouble with last names and words like “AppStories,” which LLMs tend to separate into two words instead of camel casing.
GeekyBear · 5h ago
It sounds like the quality is better than YouTube's.

> a game changer for anyone who uses voice transcription to create text from lectures, podcasts, YouTube videos, and more... generating transcripts that I upload to YouTube because the site’s built-in transcription isn’t very good.

and on par with Whisper.

> SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber – available across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro – mark a significant leap forward in transcription speed without compromising on quality

eviks · 4h ago
How much better?