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Audion Voice Tools — User Guide

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Audion Voice Tools — User Guide

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First Start

  1. Start Start.exe. The window opens, a capsule — a narrow strip — appears at the top of the screen, and the program's

icon is in the tray. Windows 11 hides new tray icons behind the «^» arrow: drag the icon onto the taskbar to keep it in sight.

  1. The window asks about installing the components recommended for this machine: the dictation engine, FFmpeg, GigaAM and

Whisper for files; with an NVIDIA card Whisper on CUDA and Whisper large-v2 come in place of Whisper for files (why — in the Files section). Every component has a tick, the dictation engine a choice of the model: GigaAM v3 first, the best model for Russian, then the models for other languages. INSTALL puts in place what is ticked, one by one; the progress is in SETUP — the step, the percentage, the speed, the time left. "Install later" postpones the question until the next start; OPEN SETUP closes the question and opens the sheet SETUP at once.

  1. While the dictation engine is being installed, the DICTATION button of the capsule is dimmed. Once the Journal section

shows the line [OK] gigaam-…: load …, warm-up …, dictation is ready.

Dictation

capsule opens the same menu as ⌄: the text modes, the engine of dictation, the place of the panel.

While you speak, the capsule shows:

Left to rightWhat it is
×cancel: nothing is pasted, the sound stays in the history
dot, bars, timerecording, the microphone level, the time spent
↻start again: this take is cancelled, a new one starts at once
the last wordswhat was heard (with cloud streams — as you speak)
the engine's nameGigaAM, Whisper, or a cloud with the ☁ sign
red squarestop and paste
⌄text modes and the dictation engine

After the stop the capsule says "Recognizing…", with a text mode — "Working over: …", then shows the pasted text for a moment.

Dictation Engine

The Dictations section → ADVANCED, the blocks LOCAL MODELS and API: SERVICES AND MODELS; the same choice is ⌄ of the capsule → "Engine of dictation ›" and the tray menu:

name, what it is for and its languages, its size, "installed" or INSTALL. GigaAM v3 — Russian speech, the default; Parakeet V3 — 25 European languages; Parakeet EN — English; Whisper Small, Medium, Turbo, Large v3, Large v2 — multilingual. INSTALL downloads a model from Hugging Face, checks it by SHA-256 and chooses it; SETUP has the same models. Another model chosen is loaded at once; a dictation under way finishes first. The NOW line names what runs: gigaam-v3-e2e-rnnt-Q8_0 · Vulkan0.

terms best of all.

The MODEL of a cloud comes from the list of the service itself, the button with the arrow: OpenAI Realtime — gpt-realtime-whisper by default, OpenAI after the stop — gpt-transcribe; xAI and ElevenLabs choose their model themselves. The window asks the service for its list once a day, ↻ beside it — at once: the services change their models every month. SPEECH of a cloud — AUTO, RU, EN.

A cloud needs its own key (SETUP → KEYS OF THE SERVICES). If the cloud does not answer within eight seconds, GigaAM on this machine recognizes the same take, and the history marks it on the dictation.

Text Modes

⌄ of the capsule — the modes, as in Letterly; the same choice is Dictations → ADVANCED → TEXT AND SUMMARY. A mode chosen during a dictation already applies to it.

ModeWhat the model does
Original textnothing: the text of the engine is pasted (the default)
Magicchooses the form itself by the text and by the window it goes into: lightly, clean, a list, parts, minutes
Lightlypunctuation, capitals, paragraphs; fillers and accidental repeats removed, the words stay
Thoroughlya clean written text: grammar and slips corrected, the meaning and details stay
As a listevery thought or task is an item «- »
Structuredparts by meaning with short headings
Minutes of the meetingsubject, gist, decisions, tasks with owners and dates, open questions

Text modes and summaries are on with a cloud service; with the local model — when config holds an OpenAI or xAI key. SERVICE — OPENAI, XAI or OWN SERVER, MODEL — from its list. By default — OpenAI and gpt-6-luna: it makes the minutes of a meeting at the highest reasoning effort (max), the other modes at a low one (low), so the paste does not wait. The key of its service is needed, and goes only to it: api.openai.com — the OpenAI key, api.x.ai — the xAI key. An own server — Ollama, LM Studio — is asked without a key: an address like http://localhost:11434/v1 and a model from its list.

The model is waited for 15 seconds, a long text longer, the minutes of a meeting up to two minutes. No answer or a wrong one — the text of the engine is pasted; the history keeps both texts.

Dictionary

The Dictionary section, the file config\dictionary.txt. One entry a row of the section: AS SAID → AS WRITTEN, the left field empty for a term. ROW adds an entry, NOTE a note, × removes one; the search narrows the list; the section takes the whole height of the window. The file holds the same entries, one a line:

Kubernetes
PyTorch
git hub actions -> GitHub Actions
kilometres per hour -> km/h
# units
degrees celsius -> °C

ElevenLabs as key terms, OpenAI after the stop in its prompt), the text modes and the minutes keep it, the transcription of files takes it.

case; it works for GigaAM too, which cannot be told words.

The dictionary saves itself a second after typing and applies from the next dictation.

Microphone and Panel

the Windows default microphone.

"Place of the panel ›"); SHOWN AT REST (tray menu → "Show the floating panel"): off — the capsule appears only for a dictation or a recording.

The capsule, the tray and the window share one choice: changed in one place, it is shown in the others at once. ADVANCED is open until the first work of its page — a dictation, a recording, a run of files — then folds into one line by itself; after that it stays as it is left: the chevron on the right or a press on its head opens and folds it.

Tray

The left button on the icon opens the window. The right one — the menu:

Closing the window with its cross leaves the program in the tray: dictation works. Quit is only in the tray menu.

The Dictations Section

Dictations by days, the newest on top; the search finds by the beginnings of words, whatever the case. Point at a dictation — its buttons appear: copy, recognize again (GigaAM of this machine, the text is replaced), listen, download the sound to Downloads, delete (the record from the library, the sound to the Recycle Bin). The tip of the text tells where it was pasted, the engine, the mode, the length, how long the paste was waited for.

The right button: Paste again, Copy the text of the engine — before working over (dictations with a mode), Pin on top — a pinned one keeps its sound past its term.

The sound of dictations is kept 7 days (SETTINGS → SOUND OF DICTATIONS: 7 DAYS, 30 DAYS, ALWAYS, DO NOT KEEP); the text stays always. Dictations of 2.3 come into the history by themselves, without sound.

The Recordings Section and the Recorder

level; ❚❚ — pause (the microphone stays open, nothing is written), the red square — save, × — cancel (the file goes to the Recycle Bin).

is recovered at the next start. Dictation works during a recording.

AFTER RECORDING: TRANSCRIBE AT ONCE or BY HAND; CHOOSE opens Files).

The buttons of a recording card: listen, open the transcript, minutes of the meeting, show in the folder, download to Downloads, transcribe (again).

The minutes of the meeting are made by the model of Dictations → ADVANCED → TEXT AND SUMMARY from the transcript: the file NAME.protocol.md next to the recording, opened by itself. Made, the button opens them; the right button makes them again, the old ones go to the Recycle Bin.

The Files Section

  1. ADD FILES or ADD A FOLDER — recordings and videos: m4a, mp3, wav, flac, ogg, opus, aac, wma, mp4, mov, mkv, webm, avi,

mxf.

  1. The choices of the run — ADVANCED, the blocks LOCAL MODELS, API: SERVICES AND MODELS, RECOGNITION, RESULT:

· WHISPER.CPP (more accurate on hard recordings, many times heavier). One not installed is shown dimmed. With an NVIDIA card the choice is GIGAAM and WHISPER LARGE-V2, no turbo: on CUDA turbo repeats phrases (over five minutes of English speech one phrase came 25 times in a row, 42 % of the words wrong), while large-v2 is as fast there and gets 7 % of the words wrong;

sends the files to the cloud; the OpenAI model comes from the list of the service, gpt-transcribe by default; xAI and AssemblyAI choose their model themselves;

accurate, needs the Hugging Face key), SORTFORMER (up to four speakers, no key); longer: a pass of its own after recognition. HOW MANY — the number of speakers when it is known: Community-1 takes it. With a cloud — DO NOT SPLIT or SPLIT: the service splits itself;

of speech, BY TIME — at the quietest moment; no sound is thrown away either way;

  1. RUN. The progress of every file is in the list and in the journal; STOP at the bottom stops, the finished pieces are

not lost: the next run continues the file from them.

The transcript lies next to the source: NAME.md, .txt, .srt, .vtt, .transcript.json. The window remembers the choices of the run; recordings are transcribed with them too.

The Journal Section

The logs of the program by days — errors stay visible after a restart. The journal panel on the right: LOGS opens the logs folder, CONFIG — the config folder; copy the whole text, clear (the files stay), expand to the whole window.

SETUP

download; INSTALL ALL puts in place everything recommended, in order. The heavy part for NVIDIA is offered only with an NVIDIA card; Whisper for files there is Whisper on CUDA with the large-v2 model, and Whisper for files on the CPU with the turbo model is "not needed on this machine".

CHECK asks the service itself. A key is kept in config\api_key_*.txt and is never shown — only "there" and its last characters.

recorded.

SETTINGS

Here is what is set once:

chevrons of the spinner step it by half a point; BACK TO THE DEFAULTS brings back the theme, the fonts and the sizes.

The engine, the models, the text mode, the microphone and the panel are under ADVANCED of the Dictations page, the dictionary in its own section.

The language of the window — RU or EN in the header.

What Goes to the Network

Все проекты