speech-recognition
Apple's on-device SpeechAnalyzer beats Whisper Small using about a third of the compute News
Apple's new on-device SpeechAnalyzer API cut errors roughly fourfold versus its legacy recognizer and outperformed OpenAI's Whisper Small while using about a third of the compute, in an English-only single-vendor benchmark.
How AI Turns Speech Into Text Lesson
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) converts spoken audio into written text by breaking sound into tiny slices, encoding them into features a model understands, and decoding those into words -- and its accuracy is measured by word error rate, the fraction of words it gets wrong.
Cohere open-sources an Arabic speech model that beats Whisper and handles dialects and code-switching News
Cohere released an open-source (Apache 2.0) Arabic speech-recognition model that it says is the most accurate open Arabic transcriber to date, cutting word error rate well below OpenAI's Whisper Large V3 and handling dialects and Arabic-English code-switching, not just formal Modern Standard Arabic.
OpenAI Whisper Tool
OpenAI's open-source speech-recognition model family and the reference baseline Apple's SpeechAnalyzer was measured against - freely runnable locally in sizes from tiny to large for transcription and translation.
Cohere Transcribe Arabic Tool
Open-source (Apache 2.0) Arabic speech-recognition model built for dialects and Arabic-English code-switching, with lower word error rate than Whisper Large V3 on the Hugging Face Arabic leaderboard.
Apple SpeechAnalyzer Tool
Apple's on-device speech-to-text API that cut errors roughly fourfold over the legacy recognizer and beat Whisper Small using about a third of the compute - private, local transcription with no cloud round-trip.