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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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447 points hemant6488 | 1 comments | 18 Jun 25 15:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | source
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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].

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/277/

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/18/apple-transcription-api...

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1. xd1936 ◴[19 Jun 25 13:06 UTC] No.44318361[source]▶
Faster, but... quality? I would take something 10× _slower_ than Whisper 3 if it meant a 5% increase in quality.