Fact · Dictation on Mac
9seconds
In the 2025 9to5Mac test of one 7-minute-31-second episode, Apple's speech API took 9 seconds to transcribe the audio.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Parakeet v2 2 seconds 5.8% 12.3% Whisper Large V3 Turbo 40 seconds 0.2% 1.5% Apple 9 seconds 1.9% 10.3%”
How accurate is Apple's new transcription AI? We tested it against Whisper and Parakeet, Marcus Mendes, 9to5Mac, 2025, Results table.
Open the original- What it measures
- The table column is labelled Transcription time. The times measure how long each engine took on the same episode, on the author's Mac.
- What it does not show
- A single run on one episode. Transcription time depends on the machine and on how the app calls the engine, so treat it as one data point.
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