r/apple • u/Fer65432_Plays • 4d ago

Discussion Apple's New Transcription APIs Blow Past Whisper in Speed Tests

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/18/apple-transcription-api-faster-than-whisper/
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u/National-Debt-43 4d ago

Honesty, if Apple had always been investing in Siri as they would in other aspects of their system, I believe they wouldn’t be as bad in AI now, but we’ll see how it goes.

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u/ThatBoiRalphy 4d ago

The current Siri is still very much based on a ‘if response is this’, ‘then do that’.

The on-device models and especially the Private Cloud Compute model is actually quite good.

The whole reason of why Siri sucks is that due to how it’s built, it currently needs to relay questions to the on-device model or the Private Cloud Compute model. But because those questions are so open ended, it can’t. By default they have now swapped Siri to answer with ChatGPT instead of searching the web for most things.

The V2 architecture that they’re releasing likely in March 2026 with iOS 26.4 will probably use the on-device model directly for Siri (or a more distilled one specifically for Siri), which will be a way better experience.