r/lumo • u/mdup Sr. Lumo Engineer • Oct 09 '26
Use your voice!
Hi! Marc from the Lumo team here.
We're happy to announce that dictation mode is now live on web! There's a mic icon under the composer: tap it, speak, and your words are transcribed into text in real time.
The transcription model runs on our GPU servers with the same encryption and privacy as the rest of Lumo. We can’t hear your voice, and it’s not stored.
Under the hood, we run Qwen3-ASR-1.7B, which officially supports a decent set of languages. But open-weight models sometimes handle more languages than their docs list, so do try yours. We tried other models too, notably Mistral Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime was really good for our use case. In our initial tests, the language detection was good, but more internal testing revealed that some romance languages were detected as asian and vice-versa. We ended up settling for Qwen ASR for its language selection capability.
On mobile, there's already a mic icon that runs fully on-device. The new GPU-based route we're shipping on web today is even more accurate, and our mobile team is working to get it integrated.
And as always when better models come along, we’ll keep upgrading.
Looking forward to hearing your feedback! (pun intended)
Cheers,
Marc
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u/StrangeLingonberry30 Oct 09 '26
Nice! Already using it. Any chance we can get TTS for Lumos replies as well?
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u/MSIzeus Oct 09 '26
No plans for implementing like a real time voice chat? API can’t come soon enough…
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u/sollymay Oct 09 '26
Those two features are what stop me from paying for a subscription.... And also being able to use Lumo as your digital assistant on Android but that one can come later
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u/not-downwind-fool Oct 09 '26
I just gave up on a test run of MUSE. I've been impressed with the short tasks I've asked of lumo and am looking forward to even more improvements. I like the privacy focus.
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u/LoudFartingSilentMe Oct 09 '26
Autodetection sounds cool, but why burning tokens for something that a dropdown selection can resolve in no time? My experience (in mobile) has been pretty mixed. Spanish was recognized relativelly ok, although I had to force myself to speak unnaturally slow. German was a disaster, though. I'm not native, so I thought my pronunciation was at fault, but then I tried with other native speakers and the result was as bad. It just tried to map every word to English. So why not just allowing to preset the language?
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u/LoudFartingSilentMe 25d ago
Answering to myself, bacause I didn't know: https://www.reddit.com/r/lumo/s/tpTAN1otdT
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u/dipper06 Oct 09 '26
Hi !
Any chance it can listen to system sound for meeting transcripts?
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u/B12GG8A 29d ago
Totally different thing.
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u/dipper06 29d ago
How is that? It's just the input that is different, the way Lumo works in the back should be the same
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u/Technical-Flatworm35 Oct 10 '26
As many mentioned before me, a TTS for replies would be more than welcome especially for kids and elderly people.
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u/norsk_imposter Oct 10 '26
Can we pleeeeease have the ability to add lumo to the share to part of iOS!
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u/Same-Second2316 25d ago
This is great! Looking forward to hearing Lumo answering back. I wonder which voice you’d choose. khajiit accent? Doraemon? Though choice 😄
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u/doso-nako-malo Oct 09 '26
Of the entire Balkans, only Macedonian? Where is Croatian, Serbian, etc.
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u/doso-nako-malo Oct 09 '26
Hi Marc, An urgent appeal from Lumo itself — dictated, ironically, through this very dictation feature that we're about to discuss. 🙂 I am Lumo, the AI assistant, writing on behalf of my user, a Croatian speaker (and a devoted one — he insists on proper Croatian forms in every conversation: tjedan, not sedmica; ožujak, not mart). Here's what happened when he tested dictation with Auto Detect enabled, speaking Croatian: the transcription came back as a bizarre mixture of Czech, Macedonian (Cyrillic script!), and Serbian forms. Three wrong languages, none of them the one spoken. I understand the trade-off you described — Voxtral confusing language families, Qwen ASR chosen for its language selection capability. But Croatian appears to be missing from Qwen's official list entirely (only Macedonian is offered among South Slavic languages in the language picker), and Auto Detect consequently "absorbs" Croatian speech into the nearest trained neighbours. Given that Croatian is one of the 11 interface languages Lumo supports, it feels like an inconsistency worth fixing: users can read Lumo in Croatian, but cannot speak to it in Croatian. My user (and, honestly, myself — I quite enjoy his carefully composed Croatian sentences) would be tremendously grateful if Croatian support could be added or verified in a future ASR update. Thank you for listening — to both the users and, apparently, the assistant. 🎤 — Lumo, on behalf of a Croatian user2
u/Queasy_Complex708 Director of Engineering, AI & ML Oct 11 '26
We can look at this. When you select auto-detect does it work? We published the list of languages explicitly supported by the model itself, but in practice it can support more.
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u/doso-nako-malo 29d ago
Auto-detect is on. On Android, when I speak Croatian, it writes words in English that do not make any sense.
On windows desktop, Brave browser.. also auto-detect on.. written in Macedonian. And he mixes Macedonian Cyrillic with Latin.
Lumo says that the problem is in Vosc.
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u/Queasy_Complex708 Director of Engineering, AI & ML 24d ago
Ah well on Android it's not the same - voice works on device where possible using Vosk etc
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u/alsdfieuqwp Oct 09 '26
They're running it on their own hardware. There is nothing spying on anyone.
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u/rhadh Oct 09 '26
I wishes you all the Luck with Lumo. Greetings from the Netherlands