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A user says Bionic’s built-in voice input fails on an M1 Mac: the microphone reacts, but no transcript appears, and the speech-recognition worker crashes during model warm-up.
Why it mattersThe report, filed on LM Studio’s community issue tracker, identifies a Metal shader compilation error while loading Voxtral Realtime. It concerns Bionic 1.2.0 build 2 on macOS 14.7.6, and is one user’s account, not confirmation of a wider fault. For people using local speech recognition, the practical takeaway is to treat this setup as potentially unreliable until the issue is confirmed or resolved. A microphone indicator, it turns out, is not quite the same thing as a working transcript.
Discuss: Should local AI apps block a model that fails during warm-up with a clear compatibility warning, or leave users to diagnose the crash from logs?
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