Audion Voice AI Live
Audion Voice AI Live
Contents
- Why It Exists
- What Has to Be Installed Separately
- Editions
- The Principle
- What It Can Do
- Next
- Technical Reference
- FFmpeg and the NVIDIA Driver
- Portability
Transcribing recordings, live dictation, cleaning up text, and exporting working notes. The light edition — for a laptop and everyday work.
Why It Exists
Transcription is needed in two entirely different situations.
Quickly, right now. Dictate a paragraph, transcribe a ten-minute recording, get the text immediately. Response time is what matters, and a cloud service fits best.
In bulk, offline. An hour-long meeting, a whole day of dictaphone recording, a folder of files. Here autonomy matters more: the recording should not leave the machine, and the cost should not grow with every hour.
The program does both, and switching between them is a matter of choosing an engine, not a different program.
What Has to Be Installed Separately
Model weights are not part of the distribution — together they come to about 3.3 GB. The weights carry their own licences, separate from the program's, so the user downloads them under their own account where that is required.
Until the models are installed, transcription will not start: the window opens, but there is nothing to recognise with.
On the first start the app offers to download what is missing. The "Download models and engines" window lists the modules with their download size, for Live that is GigaAM and whisper.cpp with the Turbo model, about 3.3 GB. "Download and install" installs them one after another; progress is shown on the Maintenance page, and once everything is in place every mode there is green. "Later" postpones the question until the next start, "Don't ask again" hides the window for good. Modules can still be installed by hand on the same page.
Editions
| edition | for what | engines |
|---|---|---|
| Live | laptop, everyday work | cloud services, GigaAM, whisper.cpp |
| Studio | workstation with an NVIDIA card | the same plus CUDA and speaker separation |
Live is the main version. Studio adds heavy local engines and speaker separation for machines with the hardware to run them.
The Principle
Reliable first, elegant second. Batch transcription behaves predictably, and everything else rests on it. An overlay on top of other windows and instant on-the-fly parsing were both tried — and both broke the window itself. Heavy work is not hung on the thread that draws the interface.
What It Can Do
Transcribing files and folders, live dictation, cleaning up transcribed text, exporting into working notes, a tray icon for quick access, resetting the application to its initial state.
Next
- User Guide — step by step, engines, formats.
Technical Reference
FFmpeg and the NVIDIA Driver
Every FFmpeg build is compiled against a particular version of the hardware-encoding headers, and each demands its own minimum driver. The newest build on an old driver does not accelerate anything — it breaks the hardware path. So the build is chosen to match the driver, not by version number.
Portability
Application state lives in the project folder, not in the system. A separate command returns the application to its initial state without touching the downloaded models.