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It's interesting that Whisper from OpenAI that has been released so long time ago is much better than Siri and also support like ~50 languages and an be run actually realtime on iPhones. They could even take it probably for free since its MIT license but most likely they have not invented syndrome at Apple.

Actually ex-Apple devs are running company that optimised whisper for apple devices and even provide it on HF open source: https://www.argmaxinc.com/team

Just very good multilingual STT would improve Siri experience a lot. I'm wondering if apple privacy policy backfired and they don't have much data they can use for training.




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