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jdon ◴[18 Jun 25 18:32 UTC] No.44312245[source]▶

Soon you'll also be able to do speech to text locally, as Apple is adding a SpeechAnalyzer API [0] which is apparently faster than whisper [1].

1. jkmcf ◴[18 Jun 25 19:15 UTC] No.44312560[source]▶

  A CLI for on-device speech transcription using Speech.framework on macOS 26

The MacStories article made it seem about 2x as fast as Whisper, but there's no network or shared servers involved, so it's effectively faster.

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