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How I benchmarked on-device speech-to-text on Apple silicon (Whisper vs Parakeet)
Community description: I build Plainsay, an open-source dictation app for the Mac. You hold a key, speak, release, and the...
Dev.to | Oct 13, 2026 | Konrad Sierzputowski
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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 engines run with an empty vocabulary prompt. "Margolotte" became "Margolot", "Donnithorne" became "donnythorne" (Whisper) or "Donny Thorne" (Parakeet, two errors), and "Silvia" became "Sylvia" in both engines.
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