Transcription app
WaveCap
by Square Digital App
A Mac app that transcribes, translates and dubs audio and video files locally with a choice of open speech models, speaker labeling and vocal isolation.
- Mac
Speech engines it runs
- Whisper by OpenAIWhisper large-v3-turbo, English: 3.92%Whisper large-v3-turbo, No noise: 3.78%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 20 dB: 4.2%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 10 dB: 5.51%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 5 dB: 13.92%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 0 dB: 66.09%
- NVIDIA Parakeet by NVIDIAParakeet TDT v3, English: 4.48%Parakeet TDT v3, No noise: 4.44%Parakeet TDT v3, 20 dB: 4.44%Parakeet TDT v3, 10 dB: 4.48%Parakeet TDT v3, 5 dB: 7.85%Parakeet TDT v3, 0 dB: 44.47%
- Qwen3-ASR by Alibaba Cloud (Qwen team)
- Cohere Transcribe by Cohere
- Voxtral by Mistral AI
Word error rates from our own tests on public recordings: English in a quiet room and with background talk. Lower is better.
Every figure about WaveCap
Each figure is a row of a research dataset. Open it for the exact words of its source or the exact request it was read from.
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