Fact · Dictation on Mac
6.9times the Whisper error rate
On the same 2025 9to5Mac test episode, Apple's speech API had a word error rate about 6.9 times that of Whisper Large V3 Turbo.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
- How it is calculated
- 10.3 / 1.5 = 6.87, rounded to 6.9
Calculated from
- In a 2025 9to5Mac test of one 7-minute-31-second episode, Apple's speech API had a word error rate of 10.3 percent, against 1.5 percent for Whisper Large V3 Turbo.
- In the same 2025 9to5Mac test, Whisper Large V3 Turbo had a word error rate of 1.5 percent on the episode, the lowest of the three engines the author tested.