Cloud Voice Models on iOS [Whisper/Deepgram]
Jake
Right now, the biggest limiting factor in using the iOS app more is the slowness (and typos) with which the voice model transcribes audio to text.
Given I have an iPhone 15 Pro, which is at the high end of processing speed relative to other users, it's still quite slow.
It would be fantastic if we could use our own API key to access Whisper or, potentially, DeepGram as well. This would significantly boost my usage of the iOS app, as right now, it is sluggish and has some transcription errors when using either the Ultra or Ultra Light models.
Thank you very much for your consideration.
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Chris
Co-sign. It takes 5-15 minutes to transcribe voice notes on iOS, vs. less than a minute for audio of a comparable length using Deepgram. Plus, the quality of the on-device models is terrible by comparison, in terms of transcription accuracy and phrase/sentence/paragraph parsing. It's essentially unusable for messages of more than a minute or two, so I rely on iOS shortcuts that use cloud models instead.