#benchmark

Local Speech-to-Text on Mac: Whisper vs Parakeet Benchmark Comparison

The author of open-source dictation app Plainsay benchmarked Whisper large-v3-turbo vs Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 on Apple Silicon: Parakeet averages 0.10 s latency and 2.50% WER, Whisper 0.68 s and 2.89% — the accuracy gap falls within normalization noise.