ZenVoiceModels
14 models. Zero servers.
A speech engine turns audio into text. An optional Smart formatting model turns spoken drafts into clean writing. Both run on your Mac, and ZenVoice downloads only the one you pick.
English or a European language on Apple Silicon
NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B V3
Auto-detect, or a language outside Parakeet's 25
Whisper Large V3 Turbo
Hindi and English, written as Hinglish
Hinglish Prime
macOS 26 and nothing to download
Apple Speech Analyzer
Setup recommends an engine for your language and your Mac. Switch any time in Models.
Speech to text
The engine that listens. Pick one; ZenVoice downloads only its file.
Apple Speech Analyzer
macOS 26+No downloadApple
On-device recognition in macOS. Nothing to download. Requires macOS 26+.
System languagesSpeechAnalyzerApple SLABuilt in
no download
NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B V3
RecommendedApple SiliconNVIDIA
The default for English and European languages. 6.9% WER at 73× real time.
25 Europeanparakeet.cpp · MetalCC-BY-4.00.9 GB
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NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B V2
EnglishNVIDIA
The English-only Parakeet, on the same open parakeet.cpp runtime.
Englishparakeet.cppCC-BY-4.00.8 GB
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Multilingual 0.6B
StreamingNVIDIA
Streaming ASR for English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese.
8 languagesparakeet.cppOpenMDW-1.10.9 GB
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Qwen3-ASR 0.6B
MLXQwen
Compact multilingual recogniser running natively on MLX.
MultilingualMLX · 6-bitApache-2.00.8 GB
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Cohere Transcribe
2B paramsCohere Labs
A 2B-parameter Conformer encoder-decoder. The largest engine in the catalogue.
14 languagesONNX · INT8Apache-2.02.9 GB
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Whisper Large V3 Turbo
Auto-detectIntel + Apple SiliconOpenAI
Auto-detect and the widest language coverage. 8.2% WER at 11× real time.
99 languageswhisper.cppMIT0.5 GB
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Whisper Small
IntelOpenAI
Fallback for Macs that cannot run Turbo comfortably.
99 languageswhisper.cppMIT0.5 GB
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Whisper Tiny (English)
SmallestOpenAI
The smallest download. Good for trying ZenVoice in a minute.
Englishwhisper.cppMIT0.1 GB
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Whisper Tiny (Multilingual)
SmallestOpenAI
Tiny footprint with multilingual coverage.
99 languageswhisper.cppMIT0.1 GB
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Hinglish Prime
HinglishOriserve · ZenVoice
A full Large V3 fine-tune that writes Hindi and English speech as romanized Hinglish.
Hindi & Englishwhisper.cppApache-2.01.5 GB
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Dictation enhancement
Used by Smart formatting: fillers and restarts out, numbers, dates and money written the way you'd type them.
Apple Intelligence
Supported MacsNo downloadFoundation Models
On-device Foundation Models built into macOS. Nothing is downloaded or uploaded. Ready on supported Macs.
FoundationModelsBuilt in
no download
ZenPolish 1.7B v2.2
NewRecommendedQwen3-1.7B · fine-tuned
ZenVoice's own writing model: a fifth of the word errors of its stock base model, and 90% fewer words you never said, in 1.8 GB of memory.
MLX · 6-bit + LoRA1.5 GB
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Qwen 3.5 2B
OfflineQwen3.5-2B
On-device Smart formatting for Macs without Apple Intelligence. 4-bit MLX, runs offline.
MLX · 4-bit1.6 GB
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