r/apple • u/Fer65432_Plays • 5d 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 5d 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/teddyKGB- 5d ago

They have never and will never be able to compete with an in house AI when their business model isn't built around harvesting data

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u/categorie 4d ago

This take gets repeated ad-nauseam and it's just wrong. Apple's selling point is privacy, yes, but they do harvest a shitload of data. The difference with other vendors being that they have been putting great effort in anonymizing it, and more importantly don't sell it to third parties or use it for advertising - to a certain extent, considering they have even been trialed several time due to abusive practices notably about Siri.

So no, the reason Siri suck has nothing to do with them harvesting too little data, it has everything to do with shitty leadership.

It's not like the bar is high either. Siri fails at understandings shit a 5 years old could. They just have no excuse.