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SpeakoFlow sits in your system tray and does nothing until you press a shortcut. You never switch to it to dictate. It is a layer over whatever app you are already in. Three jobs live under that layer.
  • Dictation. Local speech-to-text, typed into the active app.
  • Generate with Flow. Start a dictation with an activation phrase and the AI writes the finished result.
  • The assistant. A floating panel you summon to ask questions by voice or text.

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The dictation pipeline

Your microphone

Audio is captured from the input device you picked in General settings.

Voice-activity detection

Silero VAD filters out silence, so pauses while you think don’t become gaps in your text.

Speech-to-text, on your hardware

whisper.cpp or Parakeet runs the model on your GPU, or your CPU if no GPU is available. See Acceleration & GPU.

Text into the active app

Inserted via the clipboard or typed directly. See Output & pasting.
Nothing in that chain touches the network. Two things can add a network hop after it, and both are opt-in: AI cleanup and Generate with Flow. They hand the text to whichever model provider you configured, which may be the fully local built-in engine.

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What the assistant does with a question

An assistant turn is not a single request. The model gets a small set of tools, web search and the current date and time, and decides for itself whether it needs them. The loop is bounded, so a turn can’t run away. With web search off, the tool isn’t offered at all and the assistant answers from what it knows. Screen vision works the same way. Nothing is captured unless you ask for it.

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Where things run

Speech-to-text is always local. The assistant is where you choose your comfort level, in Settings → Assistant.
  • Built-in. A small local model, fully on your machine. No key, no network.
  • Local server. Ollama or LM Studio on your own machine.
  • Cloud. Your own API key for any OpenAI-compatible provider.
See Models and providers to set this up, and Privacy for exactly what is stored and where.
Last modified on August 7, 2026