Apple SpeechAnalyzer API Review

Here are the key points:

• Apple’s new SpeechAnalyzer API has been released
• It has been benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
• Results show it is substantially faster and only slightly worse than Whisper

The Buzz Score

The Internet’s Verdict: 70% Hyped, 30% Skeptical

Forum Voices

Users have been sharing their thoughts on the new API:

Just ran it against Whisper-Large-V2 on a math lecture (my primary use case for ASR is subtitling math lectures), and it was substantially faster and only slightly worse. Very usable for live transcription though I’ll probably stick with whisper for the time being since I don’t really need the subtitles to be generated in real time.

Whisper small/tiny/base are almost four years old (they were not updated for Whisper v2 or v3). Is there really nothing better to benchmark against by now?

Conclusion

The new SpeechAnalyzer API shows promise, but some users are still skeptical.

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