> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://autoedit.gitbook.io/user-manual/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://autoedit.gitbook.io/user-manual/master-1.0.13/setup-stt-apis/setup-stt-apis-gentle.md).

# Setup: STT APIs - Gentle

## First time setup

To use autoEdit with Gentle, Open source offline speech to text service, you need to download a separate app to run along side on your mac. First time you launch this version of the app it will download the language model to work offline.

* 1.Download Gentle
  * [Gentle Version `0.10.1`](https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle/releases/tag/0.10.1). It's the recommended version as it is the latest and most stable. But it is not backward compatible with OS X versions preceding Sierra.
  * [Gentle version `0.9.1`](https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle/releases/tag/0.9.1) about`104mb`. It's bugging in the alignment of the transcription. But compatible with earlier version of Mac Os X. Download this only if you don't have OS X sierra and don't intend to upgrade your OS any time soon.
* 2.Start the Gentle app, double click on it.
* 3.Click`Enable full transcription`, this will download the language model component to be able to work offline.

![gentle\_enable\_full\_transcription](/files/-LKEUVsd3sm4tnFsHqHE)

* 4.restart the app
* 5.the Gentle server is now up and running.

Future times, you just need to launch gentle anche check local host is working.

## Launching Gentle’s local server

If you already done the initial setup downloading the language model as described above, all you need to do when using gentle is click `open in browser`.

![gentle\_open\_in\_browser](/files/-LKEUVsfR-4f0iE_wEDk)

This will open your default browser with this page, and this means the Gentle server is running locally. The address should be [http://localhost:8765](http://localhost/:8765]\(http//localhost:8765/).

![gentle\_browser](/files/-LKEUVsh7_NgRTgNBn56)

Now you are ready to chose Gentle as an option when adding a new transcription. Go back to the [user manual](/user-manual/master-1.0.13/transcribing.md) to continue.

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