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llimllib • today at 12:17 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Apple's on-device transcription model is about 3x slower than their reported results on my more powerful computer, with a similar error rate in my test (which I consider pretty good results)

I'll test theirs too if I get around to it

Here's a sample CLI wrapping the apple model and providing a simple benchmark: https://github.com/llimllib/transcribe

update: doesn't seem like they provide their model and I don't feel like trying to dig it out of their app bundle, so I'm not going to test this one


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s3p • today at 12:41 PM

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

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bigtex • today at 12:51 PM

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.

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