Platform editions
Granite
IBM Granite Speech locally through MLX on macOS or Python/PyTorch on Windows.
Choose your platform
This add-on has separate macOS and Windows editions. Each page documents the features, settings, requirements, and screenshots for that platform.
macOS
v1.2.0
IBM Granite Speech locally through MLX on Apple silicon. Granite 5.0 TurboCTC transcribes 7 languages with punctuation; Granite 5.0 2B also translates.
- Local speech-to-text processing
- Processing without uploading audio or text
- Granite 5.0 TurboCTC (default): fast, 7 languages, punctuation and capitalization
- Granite 5.0 2B: translation and dictionary terms
Windows
v1.2.7
IBM Granite Speech locally on the CPU or an NVIDIA GPU through a managed Python/PyTorch runtime.
- Local transcription, and translation of speech into English
- Live preview while you speak when Live transcription is on
- Managed Python runtime with PyTorch and Transformers
- Granite 4.0 1B Speech for six languages