Testing OpenAI's whisper with a Scottish accent

OpenAI's recent release of Whisper boasts human-level robustness and accuracy in speech recognition. I'm not Scottish (although I was born pretty close), but I immediately wanted to test it with a Scottish accent and compare it to "human-level". Having bought an unexciting new iPhone, at least I could put its A16 Bionic chip with 16-core Neural Engine through its paces for my experiment. Once the boring tech stuff was out of the way, I shared the test app on TestFlight with a few colleagues, yielding much amusement with its borderline magical results. Here's a little clip from the start of Trainspotting, which is particularly challenging for machines to understand; a Scottish accent over the top of Iggy Pop isn't something you'd train for.