Every single asr model I tested so far did not support timestamps properly though. Some use external aligner to create timestamp, but the accuracy is still much inferior than whipser in case the audio is noisy.

Was intrigued by the Inscribe product so I downloaded it to test it out. I uploaded 1 voice file about 4 minutes long and was promptly given a message that I've reached the free plan limits.

Kind of a bait and switch. How can we test the product with such short time limits and what, exactly are you offering if all the processing is done on device by Apple?

Obligatory mention of Handy which is open-source and cross-platform:

https://github.com/cjpais/Handy

It's great for me when configured to use Parakeet v3.

Cloud is so cheap and quick. I use local too but my api bill is like 3 quid a month. You would have to be very cheap or have compliance needs to tolerate the error gap

If you are running ios 27 beta is this the model when you hit voice to text on the native keyboard?

I'm looking for good and cheap transcription + speaker diarization on my Mac for a small personal project. Recs?

i wish they had benchmarked it against parakeet-unified-en-0.6b and cohere-transcribe-03-2026. i am using parakeet with https://handy.computer daily and it's amazing.

Would this end up replacing the default iOS keyboard dictation functionality in iOS 27?

I make an iOS app that uses this API heavily for transcribing diverse audio of varying bitrate and recording quality. The audio often contains music, multiple speakers, sound effects. SpeechAnalyzer almost always gets it.

It can struggle with proper nouns but will return something phonetically similar.

My main gripe is that it requires a separate model download per language. I understand the why they did this (to save disk space). But it makes multi-lingual audio hard to transcribe unless you know ahead of time the languages in the audio.

As an app developer the biggest win from using Apple's model is I don't have to bundle it in my app so my app looks much smaller. If a user has many transcription apps each one could have their own model. If Apple's model is used only one copy is needed.

I wish Apple would update there built in TTS model (on Mac). In this day and age, it's quality is terrible.