// catalog

Dictation models, published as data.

Vox reads https://voxd.cc/data/models.json. Built-in families load without extra install. New families ship as plugins.

catalog v2 · updated 2026-09-01

vox plugins

$ vox plugins list

mlx-vlm asr available bundle

$ vox plugins install mlx-vlm

Installed plugin mlx-vlm

$ vox transcribe file --model gemma-4-e2b-it clip.wav

restart voxd first, then transcribe

// models

16 entries

Family

Runtime

Status

parakeet:v3

Parakeet TDT v3

on-device · file · finalized · word times

Default on-device dictation model. Multilingual FastConformer-TDT.

parakeet-tdt

coreml

default

parakeet:v2

Parakeet TDT v2

on-device · file · finalized · word times

English-only TDT with a tighter vocabulary and better English recall.

parakeet-tdt

coreml

ready

apple:speech-transcriber

Apple SpeechTranscriber

on-device · file · finalized · word times

Core on-device parity option. Apple manages the model assets and audio format negotiation; Vox currently returns finalized file transcription and word timings.

apple-speech

speech-analyzer

ready

moonshine:medium-streaming

Moonshine Medium Streaming

on-device · file · finalized

Native next-generation streaming architecture through MoonshineVoice. Vox currently exposes it through the finalized file-transcription contract; VOX_MOONSHINE_LANGUAGE selects the downloaded language model.

moonshine

moonshine-swift

ready

mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

Parakeet TDT v3 (MLX)

on-device · file · finalized

mlx-audio

ready

mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2

Parakeet TDT v2 (MLX)

on-device · file · finalized

mlx-audio

ready

mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo-asr-fp16

Whisper Large v3 Turbo

on-device · file · finalized

mlx-audio

ready

mlx-community/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B-8bit

Qwen3-ASR 1.7B

on-device · file · finalized

Recommended Qwen3 ASR size on Apple Silicon. The current Vox mlx-audio bridge is file-based.

mlx-audio

ready

mlx-community/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-8bit

Qwen3-ASR 0.6B

on-device · file · finalized

mlx-audio

ready

mlx-community/cohere-transcribe-03-2026-mlx-8bit

Cohere Transcribe 03-2026

on-device · file · finalized

Local MLX conversion of Cohere Transcribe. Offline rather than realtime; requires the mlx-audio ASR provider.

mlx-audio

ready

mlx-community/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b-8bit

Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B

on-device · file · finalized

Cache-aware streaming FastConformer-RNNT with configurable latency. The model is streaming-capable; the current Vox mlx-audio bridge is file-based.

mlx-audio

ready

gpt-transcribe

GPT Transcribe

remote · file · finalized

Current OpenAI file-transcription model.

openai-transcribe

remote

ready

gpt-4o-transcribe

GPT-4o Transcribe

remote · file · finalized

openai-transcribe

remote

ready

gpt-4o-mini-transcribe

GPT-4o Mini Transcribe

remote · file · finalized

openai-transcribe

remote

ready

whisper-1

Whisper-1

remote · file · finalized

Legacy OpenAI Whisper API. The current Vox bridge uses finalized file transcription and does not yet request its timestamp or caption response formats.

openai-transcribe

remote

ready

gemma-4-e2b-it

Gemma 4 E2B

on-device · file · finalized

Install with `vox plugins install mlx-vlm`. The plugin speaks the Vox provider protocol and runs Gemma through mlx-vlm.

mlx-vlm

plugin

// plugins

New families install as plugins.

A plugin is an external JSON-RPC provider. Catalog refresh does not run it. Install writes ~/.vox/plugins/<id>/provider.json, then restart voxd.

mlx-vlm

asr · bundle

External JSON-RPC provider for Gemma 4 and other mlx-vlm audio models. Install with `vox plugins install mlx-vlm`, then restart voxd.

Models and plugins guide