# Models · ZenVoice

Source: https://getzenvoice.com/models

> Every speech-to-text and Smart formatting model ZenVoice runs on your Mac.

Models

# 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.

11 models

-   ### Apple Speech Analyzer
    
    macOS 26+No download
    
    Apple
    
    On-device recognition in macOS. Nothing to download. Requires macOS 26+.
    
    System languagesSpeechAnalyzerApple SLA
    
    Built in
    
    no download
    
-   ### NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B V3
    
    RecommendedApple Silicon
    
    NVIDIA
    
    The default for English and European languages. 6.9% WER at 73× real time.
    
    25 Europeanparakeet.cpp · MetalCC-BY-4.0
    
    0.9 GB
    
    download
    
-   ### NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B V2
    
    English
    
    NVIDIA
    
    The English-only Parakeet, on the same open parakeet.cpp runtime.
    
    Englishparakeet.cppCC-BY-4.0
    
    0.8 GB
    
    download
    
-   ### NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Multilingual 0.6B
    
    Streaming
    
    NVIDIA
    
    Streaming ASR for English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese.
    
    8 languagesparakeet.cppOpenMDW-1.1
    
    0.9 GB
    
    download
    
-   ### Qwen3-ASR 0.6B
    
    MLX
    
    Qwen
    
    Compact multilingual recogniser running natively on MLX.
    
    MultilingualMLX · 6-bitApache-2.0
    
    0.8 GB
    
    download
    
-   ### Cohere Transcribe
    
    2B params
    
    Cohere Labs
    
    A 2B-parameter Conformer encoder-decoder. The largest engine in the catalogue.
    
    14 languagesONNX · INT8Apache-2.0
    
    2.9 GB
    
    download
    
-   ### Whisper Large V3 Turbo
    
    Auto-detectIntel + Apple Silicon
    
    OpenAI
    
    Auto-detect and the widest language coverage. 8.2% WER at 11× real time.
    
    99 languageswhisper.cppMIT
    
    0.5 GB
    
    download
    
-   ### Whisper Small
    
    Intel
    
    OpenAI
    
    Fallback for Macs that cannot run Turbo comfortably.
    
    99 languageswhisper.cppMIT
    
    0.5 GB
    
    download
    
-   ### Whisper Tiny (English)
    
    Smallest
    
    OpenAI
    
    The smallest download. Good for trying ZenVoice in a minute.
    
    Englishwhisper.cppMIT
    
    0.1 GB
    
    download
    
-   ### Whisper Tiny (Multilingual)
    
    Smallest
    
    OpenAI
    
    Tiny footprint with multilingual coverage.
    
    99 languageswhisper.cppMIT
    
    0.1 GB
    
    download
    
-   ### Hinglish Prime
    
    Hinglish
    
    Oriserve · ZenVoice
    
    A full Large V3 fine-tune that writes Hindi and English speech as romanized Hinglish.
    
    Hindi & Englishwhisper.cppApache-2.0
    
    1.5 GB
    
    download
    

## Dictation enhancement

Used by Smart formatting: fillers and restarts out, numbers, dates and money written the way you'd type them.

3 models

-   ### Apple Intelligence
    
    Supported MacsNo download
    
    Foundation Models
    
    On-device Foundation Models built into macOS. Nothing is downloaded or uploaded. Ready on supported Macs.
    
    FoundationModels
    
    Built in
    
    no download
    
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    ### ZenPolish 1.7B v2.2
    
    NewRecommended
    
    Qwen3-1.7B · 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 + LoRA
    
    1.5 GB
    
    download
    
-   ### Qwen 3.5 2B
    
    Offline
    
    Qwen3.5-2B
    
    On-device Smart formatting for Macs without Apple Intelligence. 4-bit MLX, runs offline.
    
    MLX · 4-bit
    
    1.6 GB
    
    download
    

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