1. Apple’s SpeechAnalyzer outperforms Whisper
"the new API cuts WER 3.5‑4x vs the old one (2.12% vs 9.02% on test‑clean), and it also beat Whisper Small on both splits at about 3x the speed." — get‑inscribe
2. Frustration with Apple’s current dictation/Siri
"Apple would never do that, if anything they did not offer their Siri with the most advanced AI on iPhone 16 Pro Max, which is one year‑old only." — behnamoh
3. Interest in alternative open‑source models
"I would not recommend ignoring Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2/v3 (english‑only versus multilingual). … I would choose Parakeet over Whisper in almost all situations these days." — coder543