Apple’s new AI-powered transcription outperforms OpenAI’s Whisper

It appears Apple has several under-the-hood AI improvements in the works for iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe. While most of the features are building on what's already available, the company will also offer a chatbot-like experience for those who'd like to talk to Apple Intelligence privately through the Shortcuts app, and it has a very good speech API that outpaces OpenAI's Whisper.

At least, that's what MacStories' John Voorhees claims in his hands-on report. He asked his son to build Yap, a "simple...