Overview

• Apple’s iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe developer betas introduce SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber modules to its Speech framework.
• Beta tests by MacStories’ John Voorhees using the Yap command-line tool showed a 34-minute video was transcribed in 45 seconds, a 55% improvement over MacWhisper’s top Whisper model.
• The performance gain stems from on-device processing that eliminates the network latency inherent in cloud-based transcription services.
• Accuracy of Apple’s transcription API matches OpenAI’s Whisper while delivering more than double the speed in preliminary benchmarks.
• Developers can integrate the new APIs across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro platforms to add faster speech-to-text features to their apps.