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12.3percent word error rate
In a 2025 9to5Mac test of one 7-minute-31-second episode, the Parakeet v2 speech model had a word error rate of 12.3 percent, the highest of the three engines the author tested.
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 author transcribed one podcast episode with three engines on a Mac and compared each output against a reference transcript. Parakeet v2 was run on the same audio as Apple's speech API and Whisper Large V3 Turbo.
- What it does not show
- One episode, one author, one run. The article itself says the exact numbers would differ under slightly different methods.