Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

Re:Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisp... by satvikpendem on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:08PM (#48895686)

Thanks, was looking at a better diarization model.

Even for those sorts of apps, MacParakeet which I've been using is FOSS so no payment needed. In reality these days with AI the ability to spin up a free and/or OSS competitor falls to zero.

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Re:Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisp... by wahnfrieden on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:13PM (#48895771)

I’m not even using it for diarisation just transcription and it’s amazing. It also doesn’t need a VAD

A new VAD I found though is FireRedVAD which has better benchmark results than TEN and Silero by far

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Re:Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisp... by satvikpendem on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:08PM (#48898920)

Is MOSS a streaming model or only for offline? For that VAD how are you integrating it into a model like Whisper etc?

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Re:Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisp... by wahnfrieden on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:34PM (#48899230)

I'm using it offline. But it's much faster than realtime so it should be usable for streaming. I just asked Codex / Sol to integrate FireRedVAD with Whisper...

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