Transcription models

The Models page in the sidebar shows four tabs, one per job: Every tab starts with a Runs on switch: “On this computer” or “Cloud”. Switching changes the settings inside the card, not the shape of the page. Below the card is the catalog of models you can download for that job.

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Speech to text

The catalog has 65 speech models. Five are recommended and shown first. The rest live under Older models, which opens as soon as you search.

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Recommended models

Pick Parakeet for fast everyday English. Pick Canary 180M Flash on a weak machine (it covers English, German, Spanish, and French). Pick Nemotron for multilingual dictation with automatic language detection. Pick Whisper Medium for the widest language coverage. Pick Cohere when accuracy matters more than speed.

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Older models

These are fully supported. They run on the previous engine (ONNX and whisper.cpp) rather than the current one and are no longer the first suggestion.

• Whisper Small, Medium, Turbo, Large. Nearly 100 languages. Small, Medium, and Large translate to English. Turbo does not.
• Parakeet V2 (English only) and Parakeet V3 (25 languages, mostly European).
• Moonshine Base and Moonshine V2 Tiny, Small, Medium. English only, fast, good with accents. The V2 variants stream.
• Canary 1B v2. 25 European languages. Translates to English.
• SenseVoice. Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and Cantonese. Very fast.
• GigaAM v3. Russian only.
• Breeze ASR. Tuned for Taiwanese Mandarin with English code-switching.

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Searching and filtering

• Search by name to filter the list. Searching also reveals the older models.
• Filter by language with the globe dropdown. It shows only models that claim support for the language you pick.

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Downloads

Downloads fetch eight chunks at once and resume where they stopped if interrupted. Progress is written to a .partial file, and every retry resumes from there using an HTTP Range request. Each source is retried up to four times with exponential backoff. A server error, a timeout, or a dropped connection is retried. A permanent error like a 404 moves on to the next source. Cancelling keeps the partial file, so resuming later picks up where you left off.

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Switching models

Pick a different model from the dropdown at the top of the Speech to text tab. You can also switch from the system tray menu without opening the app. A brand-new install is seeded with Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B. If it is not on disk yet, SpeakoFlow falls back to any other downloaded speech model, so the app is never left without a working model.

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Deleting a model

Click the delete button on any downloaded model to free disk space. You get a confirmation, and a stronger one if it is your active model.

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The other three tabs

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AI cleanup

Shows the cleanup provider and model. When no cleanup model is set, cleanup borrows the assistant’s model. The tab has its own catalog of cleanup-suitable models and settings for the cleanup timeout and unload timeout. If AI cleanup is off, the tab shows a button to turn it on. Meeting notes still use this model even when cleanup is off.

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Assistant

Shows the assistant’s provider and model. The tab has its own catalog of assistant models. If the assistant is turned off, a note says so and links to the Assistant page. AI cleanup and meeting notes fall back to the assistant’s model when they have none of their own.

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Voice

Shows the voice engine and voice for spoken replies. Covers both local voices (Kokoro, Kitten, Pocket TTS, Supertonic) and cloud voices. See Spoken replies for details.

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Local vs. cloud per job

Every tab’s Runs on switch lets you move that job between your computer and a cloud provider. Cloud uses a provider’s API and your own key. Your computer is private and free. See Providers for the full list of supported providers and how to set them up.