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The 9to5Mac author who ran the 2025 test wrote that Apple's new transcription API is faster than Whisper, before testing how accurate it was.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“the fact that Apple’s new transcription API is faster than Whisper is great news”
How accurate is Apple's new transcription AI? We tested it against Whisper and Parakeet, Marcus Mendes, 9to5Mac, 2025, Introduction.
Open the original- What it measures
- The introduction frames the test as a question of accuracy after speed. The results table in the same article shows Apple at 9 seconds and Whisper at 40 seconds for the same episode.
- What it does not show
- A statement from the article's introduction about the Apple API that the author tested in 2025. It describes speed on one machine and one recording.