Acknowledgements

Presto stands on excellent open work.

NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3

The speech-recognition model at Presto's core, created by NVIDIA and used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (unmodified weights, downloaded to your Mac on first launch). Model card.

FluidAudio

The on-device runtime that runs Parakeet on Apple's Neural Engine, by FluidInference, used under the Apache License 2.0. Project.

KeyboardShortcuts

User-recordable global hotkeys by Sindre Sorhus, used under the MIT License. Project.

Apple on-device models

Text cleanup and Interpreter rewrites use Apple's built-in on-device foundation models via the system frameworks in macOS 26.

Thank you. Presto's "never leaves your Mac" promise is only possible because this work exists. The same credits appear in the app under Settings → About.