Managed services

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, using the Prompt API

  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, with API keys set up by project maintainers