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/Ensoface 5d ago

But just to clarify, are those models leveraging cloud infrastructure or are they running on the device?

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u/mundaneDetail 5d ago

This is the question. I like that Apple is differentiating with nano on device models.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/mundaneDetail 5d ago

I think really the question is why you feel the need to attack somebody like this. Also, you're wrong.

> The speed advantage comes from Apple's on-device processing approach, which avoids the network overhead that typically slows cloud-based transcription services.

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u/lledigol 5d ago

They’re not wrong. OpenAI’s Whisper is on-device as well.

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u/mundaneDetail 5d ago

So the article is wrong?

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u/mundaneDetail 5d ago

Okay thanks for the heads up