SpeakoFlow Mini

What it does

Dictation cleanup has two halves. Fix what the speaker actually got wrong, and leave everything else exactly as dictated. General models fail the second half: hand them a sentence that is already correct and they improve it. A comma becomes a full stop, a paragraph becomes bullets. SpeakoFlow Mini is 0.8B, Apache-2.0, 833 MB, and runs offline on a desktop CPU. Already-correct text comes back untouched 92.6% of the time. No API, no reasoning tokens, no rewriting.

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Dictation cleanup for transcribed speech. It applies the correction the speaker actually made, and leaves everything else exactly as you said it. 833 MB at Q8_0, 2,509 ms median on a desktop CPU. Fine-tuned from Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B with LoRA rank 16, merged, then quantised. English. Not a chat model, not a rewriter. Ships in SpeakoFlow , a free offline voice assistant for Windows, macOS and Linux. Cleanup splits cleanly into work a rule can do and work it cannot. Stage one is deterministic. Filler words, repeated words, spacing, punctuation, capitalisation, numbers, dates, currency and known jargon substitutions are pattern work, and pattern work belongs in code, where it is fast, free and…from huggingface.co

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