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Managed services

Armin Sebastian edited this page Jun 18, 2026 · 3 revisions

The Managed speech recognition service enables you to immediately start using the extension, without having to sign up for third-party services.

The extension may use local and remote speech recognition services to solve a challenge, depending on how it was configured from the extension's options. When both local and remote services are enabled, the extension will first attept to solve the challenge using a local service.

Local services

Gemini Nano

The extension uses the Prompt API to access the built-in AI model in Chrome.

Visit Settings > System in Chrome and enable On-device AI, if the status of local services in the extension's options is not supported.

The model only works on modern devices which support the GPU backend. You can learn more about the current state of the installed model in chrome://on-device-internals.

System requirements:

  • Browser: Chrome 148
  • Operating system: Windows 10 or 11, macOS 13+, Linux, or ChromeOS (from Platform 16389.0.0 and onwards) on Chromebook Plus devices
  • Storage: at least 22 GB of free space on the volume that contains your Chrome profile
  • GPU: more than 4 GB of VRAM

Remote services

Wit.ai

The extension uses Wit.ai with API keys set up by project maintainers.

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