Knightingale

Luscinia megarhynchos · fam. Muscicapidae · ord. Dictation Daemons

Voice dictation that minds its own business.

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Plate II · Acquisition

habitat: linux · windows · macos

One command. No clone, no compile.

Prebuilt binaries for every habitat. Checksums signed with sigstore. The daemon weighs 15–30 MB and sleeps at 10–40 MB resident.

curl -fsSL https://shatilkhan.github.io/knightingale/install.sh | sh

cargo install knightingale

brew install ShatilKhan/tap/knightingale

scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ShatilKhan/knightingale/main/packaging/scoop/knightingale.json

field recordertty

$

Plate III · Taxonomy of Providers

one http shape · /v1/audio/transcriptions

Nine species, one genus.

Pick a cloud or stay local — swap providers by editing one variable.

i.

Bring your own key

Groq, OpenAI, Deepinfra, Fireworks, Lemonfox, SambaNova, Azure — or any self-hosted OpenAI-compatible server.

ii.

Or run it on-device

whisper.cpp via whisper-rs; vulkan, cuda, and metal flags. tiny.en is real-time on CPU.

iii.

Smart defaults

knightingale model recommend reads your CPU, RAM, GPU and names the right checkpoint for the machine it's on.

№	Provider	Default model
01	`groq` type sp.	whisper-large-v3-turbo
02	`openai`	whisper-1
03	`deepinfra`	whisper-large-v3-turbo
04	`fireworks`	whisper-v3-turbo
05	`lemonfox`	whisper-1
06	`sambanova`	Whisper-Large-v3
07	`azure`	per deployment
08	`custom`	self-hosted
09	`local`	whisper.cpp on-device

Plate IV · The Collector's Oath

“No telemetry of any kind. No metrics, no analytics, no phone-home. Audio is sent only to the endpoint you configured, with your key, and nowhere else.”

— sworn in the source; grep it for reqwest and count one client.

README Architecture Releases Issues install.sh