Whisper Notes Blog: Latest Updates
Stay updated with the latest developments in offline voice transcription and AI speech recognition technology.
Recent Articles
August 25, 2026
Qwen3-ASR 1.7B vs Whisper Large V3 Turbo: Which Languages Win (Mac Benchmark)
Qwen3-ASR 1.7B vs Whisper Large V3 Turbo, our own FLEURS run on one Mac: 7 clear Qwen wins incl. Cantonese 6.4% vs 36.8% CER, 11 Whisper wins, 12 ties.
July 28, 2026
Whisper Notes Now Identifies Speakers
Speaker diarization without the cloud: a 19 MB model on the Neural Engine labels who said what — 99.1% sentence accuracy vs cloud ground truth. How it works, and where it still struggles.
July 3, 2026
Dictaphone Transcription: Convert Voice Recorder Files to Text Offline
Dictaphone transcription without the cloud: import MP3/WAV/M4A recordings into Whisper Notes and transcribe locally on iPhone or Mac. No upload, $7.99 once.
July 2, 2026
Whisper Transcription: Models, Speed & How to Run It Offline (2026 Guide)
What Whisper transcription is, which model to pick (tiny to large-v3-turbo), and how to run it 100% offline on Mac & iPhone — free trial, no Python, no cloud.
May 13, 2026
Offline Meeting Transcription on Mac: Record Zoom, Teams & Meet Locally
Record Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet on Mac, transcribe with Parakeet V3 at 60× speed, summarize with Gemma 4. 100% offline, $14 once, no bot in the call.
May 12, 2026
SenseVoice vs Whisper: Best Model for Japanese, Korean & Chinese (Benchmark)
Best model for Japanese, Korean & Chinese transcription? SenseVoice vs Whisper Large V3 Turbo vs Parakeet V3 benchmarked on M4 Pro — 27-min Chinese podcast in 13.8s. Accuracy tables included.
March 19, 2026
Why Whisper Notes for Mac Left the App Store
App Store purchasers get 50% off the Whisper Notes DMG license. Why the Mac app moved to direct download: Apple rejects Accessibility-based Fn voice typing.
March 7, 2026
Parakeet V3 Is Now the Default Mac Engine — 7x Faster Than Whisper
Mac dictation with NVIDIA Parakeet V3 — 6.32% vs 7.83% English WER against Whisper Large V3 Turbo on the Open ASR Leaderboard, and roughly 60× realtime on Apple Silicon. Now the default engine in Whisper Notes for Mac. Whisper models still available for 100+ languages.
December 3, 2025
Mac System-Wide Dictation with Whisper AI
Use Whisper AI for system-wide dictation on Mac. Hold Fn to type with your voice in any app—Gmail, Slack, VS Code. Offline, private, $14 lifetime.
August 2, 2025
Mistral Voxtral vs GPT-4o Audio – Open-Source Speech AI Benchmark
Discover Mistral's groundbreaking Voxtral models - the first open-source native multimodal speech recognition models with exceptional performance and competitive pricing that challenge industry standards.
May 29, 2025
Offline Speech to Text: Best Apps for Mac, iPhone & Windows (2026)
The best offline speech-to-text software in 2026, compared: Whisper Notes, MacWhisper, faster-whisper, Buzz. Speed benchmarks, prices, and Windows & Android options.
May 5, 2025
Offline Voice Memos for Privacy – Why I Switched from Cloud Apps
Discover why Whisper Notes is the top choice for secure, offline voice memos and meeting transcription, prioritizing privacy and accuracy with on-device Whisper AI.
March 15, 2025
Mac Whisper Notes – 10 Min Audio in 63 Seconds
Mac Whisper Notes rebuilt from scratch for macOS. Drag-and-drop audio import, keyboard shortcuts, timestamped results. M-series chips process 10 min audio in ~63 sec.
November 6, 2024
Whisper Large V3 Turbo vs V3: 5× Faster on Mac (Benchmark)
Whisper Large V3 Turbo vs V3 benchmark on Apple Silicon: 5× speed, 809M vs 1550M parameters, near-identical WER. Real numbers from M1/M2/M3 Macs.