Fact · Dictation on Mac
The 9to5Mac author reached Apple's speech API for the 2025 test through Finn Vorhees' open-source command-line tool, also named Yap but unrelated to this site's dictation app, on an M2 Pro MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“For Apple’s speech API, I used Finn Vorhees’ excellent Yap project. I ran them on my M2 Pro MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM.”
How accurate is Apple's new transcription AI? We tested it against Whisper and Parakeet, Marcus Mendes, 9to5Mac, 2025, How I did it.
Open the original- What it measures
- The author compared Apple's speech API, OpenAI's Whisper Large V3 Turbo and NVIDIA's Parakeet v2 on the same audio, all run on one Mac.
- What it does not show
- The test measured Apple's developer speech API through that open-source tool, not the Dictation key in System Settings. Results for the Dictation key may differ.
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