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5.3minutes per hour of audio

Scaled to one hour, the 9to5Mac test's 40 seconds for a 7-minute-31-second episode works out to about 5.3 minutes of processing for an hour of audio.

Checked against its source on October 17, 2026

How it is calculated: 7 min 31 s = 451 s; 40 x (3600 / 451) = 319 s = 5.3 minutes

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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.

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Whisper Large V3 Turbo: about 5.3 minutes per hour of audio | Yap