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Set up a cleanup provider.

Parleq's speech recognition runs entirely on-device. The optional cleanup pass — punctuation, capitalization, light disfluency removal, name spelling — runs against an LLM provider you configure with your own credentials. Pick the one that fits your situation:

Google Gemini

Easiest

Direct Google AI Studio API key. The fastest path to first-paste — about five minutes from sign-up to dictation. A free tier is available without a credit card; check Google's pricing page for current quotas.

Setup guide →

AWS Bedrock

Medium

Anthropic Claude or OpenAI GPT-OSS via your AWS account. Three auth modes: AWS SSO (recommended for org accounts), static IAM access keys, or scoped Bedrock API keys.

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Google Vertex AI

Medium

Same Gemini models on GCP, with IAM, audit logs, and data residency. Two auth modes: gcloud Application Default Credentials, or service-account JSON.

Setup guide →

Azure OpenAI

Medium

GPT-4o family on Microsoft's contract. Two auth modes: resource API key, or Microsoft Entra ID via az login.

Setup guide →

No cleanup at all?

Open Settings… → LLM → Provider and pick None — paste raw ASR (skip cleanup). Parleq will paste the raw transcript exactly as the on-device speech model emitted it, and no audio or text ever leaves your Mac. Useful when transcript content must never touch a third party — e.g., for compliance-strict environments or when you want to manually edit the ASR output yourself.

All provider secrets are stored in the macOS Keychain — never in ~/.parleq/config.json. Audio is held in process memory and discarded as soon as it's transcribed; no audio file is ever written to disk.