Add a Local “Editor” to Whisper: Cleaning Transcripts with Apple Foundation Model
If you use voice-to-text often, you already know the problem: Whisper transcripts are usually not ready to ship. You get filler words, no punctuation, and sentences that run forever. You can either fix it manually, or you accept something that looks like a raw dump. While testing Apple’s on-device Foundation Model, I found it’s surprisingly good at one specific job: acting like a tiny local editor. It turns a “spoken” transcript into something you can actually paste into notes, chat, or a doc. ...