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Re:My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Visi... by jdon on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:32PM (#44312245)
Soon you'll also be able to do speech to text locally, as Apple is adding a SpeechAnalyzer API [0] which is apparently faster than whisper [1].

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/277/

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/18/apple-transcription-api...

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Re:My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Visi... by jkmcf on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @03:15PM (#44312560)
Tangentially, https://github.com/finnvoor/yap

  A CLI for on-device speech transcription using Speech.framework on macOS 26
The MacStories article made it seem about 2x as fast as Whisper, but there's no network or shared servers involved, so it's effectively faster.
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Re:My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Visi... by xd1936 on Thursday June 19, 2025 @09:06AM (#44318361)
Faster, but... quality? I would take something 10× _slower_ than Whisper 3 if it meant a 5% increase in quality.
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