88% of ChatGPT level
writes text, and it can look at a photo
· needs ~3.4 GB · Free to download · License: Gemma Terms of Use
Old office PC, 8 GB
We count about 8 GB memory. A model is listed when the memory it needs is no more than 4 GB.
Tasks you can do on this device
- Turn a photo or scan into text
- Help my kid with a school essay
- Write a technical report
- Write emails and letters
- Summarize long documents
- Translate a document
- Make old or blurry photos sharp
- Describe what's in a photo
- Transcribe a recording
- Read text aloud
- Make an audiobook from my writing
- Add subtitles to a video
- Practise pronunciation in another language
- Ask questions about my textbook or notes
- Learn a language
- Record and summarize lectures
- Meeting notes and minutes
- Search all my company documents
- Pull data from invoices and forms
- Translate for clients
- Identify a plant or flower
- Diagnose a sick plant
- Smart home assistant offline
- Plan meals for the week
- Translate a foreign recipe
- Understand my bank statements
- Organize receipts and bills
- Restore old family photos
- Build a family tree from records
- Record grandparents' stories
- Translate old letters
- Write a speech or toast
- Chat with my own files
- Run AI on a Raspberry Pi or old PC
Models that fit on a Old office PC, 8 GB
Strong at getting the meaning across, including languages the big chatbots treat lightly. For French, Spanish, or German prose, a large Qwen or Gemma usually sounds more natural.
translates many languages
· needs ~2.5 GB · Free to download · License: CC-BY-NC 4.0
79% of ChatGPT level
short rewrites on a tiny computer
· needs ~2 GB · Free to download · License: Llama 3.2 Community License
Transcription: 93% of Rev.ai
turns speech into text, in the larger file
· needs ~3.1 GB · Free to download · License: MIT
Transcription: 99% of Rev.ai
turns recordings into text, with less waiting
· needs ~1.6 GB · Free to download · License: MIT
Closer to a performance than Kokoro. Still not a substitute for a directed studio voice.
reads text aloud with more expression
· needs ~2 GB · Free to download · License: MIT
Near the top of small open English voices in public listening tests. Less expressive than a top cloud voice studio.
reads text aloud in a warm voice
· needs ~0.3 GB · Free to download · License: Apache 2.0
Within a small gap of Whisper large-v3 on English, and faster.
turns speech into text, in a smaller file
· needs ~1.5 GB · Free to download · License: MIT
Transcription: 97% of Rev.ai
turns speech into text, almost anywhere
· needs ~0.5 GB · Free to download · License: MIT
Invoice OCR: 107% of ABBYY (2022 test)
reads text from scans (OCR), including tilted photos
· needs ~0.2 GB · Free to download · License: Apache 2.0
Understandable and a bit robotic next to Kokoro.
reads text aloud in a plain voice
Runs in:· needs ~0.1 GB · Free to download · License: GPL-3.0
Invoice OCR: 84% of ABBYY (2022 test)
reads text from scans (OCR)
· needs under 0.1 GB · Free to download · License: Apache 2.0
A cleanup tool, not a rival to FLUX.
enlarges a picture you already have
Runs in:· needs ~0.3 GB · Free to download · License: BSD 3-Clause
A standard local search model. Quality of the written answer comes from the chat model beside it.
archives and searches your documents
· needs ~1.2 GB · Free to download · License: MIT
A popular small embedder in Ollama. bge-m3 is the better default when files mix languages.
searches English documents
· needs ~0.3 GB · Free to download · License: Apache 2.0