Is it even worth using apple's? Maybe they have improved it but when they first started using it to transcribe voice memos it was laughably bad (in my experience). I defaulted to whisper.cpp
replyI used it a lot in my AI client before I finally got around to hacking a Deepgram API server into Handy: It sucks enough to give me a headache worrying about its unreliability in every given transcription.
replyThey supposedly improved it on later Apple Intelligence enabled devices, but I don’t have one.
my tests are against the Apple Intelligence model, fwiw, not any earlier model
replyapple's is 5x faster than `large-v3-turbo` with whisper.cpp and in my test had somewhat worse performance, so it's a tradeoff
replyI suspect Apple's strengths are in multi-language support.
replyI use their on-device translation in my apps. Works pretty well. ChatGPT's context-aware translation is better, but it's not on-device.
With MacWhisper you can select the Apple models, it took almost 4x as long to transcribe the same file versus this software and MacWhisper/Parakeet3.
replyinteresting! I only tested against Parakeet v2 because my agent suggested it would be faster for English transcription (v3 is multilingual but somewhat slower, it suggested)
replyOn my bench, parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 is 2x slower
I wonder if you're using different Apple models when you go through that app? I don't know