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.

Yeah i do find apple's speech to text very good lately and no need to use openai or anything that seem to market their services better

I stopped reading after seeing they compared only with Whisper Small, Base, Tiny

This is useless test and benchmark when you have these day Whisper-V3-Large and Whisper V3-Turbo that you can faster than realtime on 5 years old macbook on apple sillicon (ANE). They didn't even compared to parakeet v2 or parakeet v3. And only english language...

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

If you want to use this on the CLI: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap.

Supports SRT/TXT/VTT or JSON-with-optional-word-level-timestamps output and progress meter.

Also it can transcribe live system audio.

This is great marketing, I had no idea what inscribe was, but a blog like this going viral did something no ad could do for me.

OK, but how does it compare against Parakeet TDT2 (english), TDT3 (many languages), and Parakeet TDT3 Streaming? And what about whisper large?

Anyone know the best choice these days specifically for speaker diarization?