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4.4times as long as Apple's speech API

On the same 2025 9to5Mac test episode, Whisper Large V3 Turbo took about 4.4 times as long to transcribe the audio as Apple's speech API.

Checked against its source on October 16, 2026

How it is calculated: 40 / 9 = 4.44, rounded to 4.4

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In the 2025 9to5Mac test of one 7-minute-31-second episode, Whisper Large V3 Turbo took 40 seconds to transcribe the audio, the longest of the three engines.
In the 2025 9to5Mac test of one 7-minute-31-second episode, Apple's speech API took 9 seconds to transcribe the audio.

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