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How I benchmarked on-device speech-to-text on Apple silicon (Whisper vs Parakeet)

I build Plainsay , an open-source dictation app for the Mac. You hold a key, speak, release, and the text is pasted at your cursor. It can run two speech engines entirely on the Mac: OpenAI's Whisper large-v3-turbo through WhisperKit , and NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 through FluidAudio . Both run…

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  1. 2026-10-13 03:28 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    How I benchmarked on-device speech-to-text on Apple silicon (Whisper vs Parakeet)

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