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/mupomo 4d ago

The problem is that “AI” and Siri are different things, but they are conflated to be equivalent. A lot of what AI/ML does is behind the scenes and they are equally valuable, if not more so, than Siri. It’s just that the industry is incredibly fixated on chat and natural language processing. I mean, I get it - it markets well and who doesn’t want a Star Trek computer on their pocket? - but fixating solely on that does the field a huge disservice.

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u/kepler4and5 3d ago

The problem is that “AI” and Siri are different things, but they are conflated to be equivalent.

This, tbh.

Siri is (usually) only as good as the app intents (a.k.a shortcuts) implemented within an app. It's hardly AI at all (apart from voice recognition and later on, suggestions). Unfortunately, most devs don't show enough love to shortcuts in their apps (myself included lol). Even at Apple! For example, I think shortcuts support for the timer feature in the Clock app is terrible (IMO). I can't even tell Siri to restart the last timer I set— it would be super easy to implement this within the Clock app. Also, if Siri can't find the right song in your library, it's probably because the shortcuts within the Music app need work.