Audio Whisper Models not working

[blu3knight]

Describe the bug
When clicking on Record in Whisper /Voice the system can not allocate size or start recording.

To Reproduce
Click on Record button in Audo Booth
Get "Speech-to-text engine not ready" popup

Model is Whisper Turbo Medium

Expected behavior
Should Work

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. macOS 15, Windows 11]. - MacOS 15.7.3

• Witsy Version [e.g. 2.2.4]

• 3.4.2

Additional context
Logs

[2026-01-26 13:36:38.920] [info] 2026-01-26 13:36:38.923498 [W:onnxruntime:, session_state.cc:1282 VerifyEachNodeIsAssignedToAnEp] Rerunning with verbose output on a non-minimal build will show node assignments. https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@huggingface/transformers@3.7.3/dist/ort-wasm-simd-threaded.jsep.mjs:100
[2026-01-26 13:36:39.416] [info] [whisper] error when initializing: Error: Can't create a session. failed to allocate a buffer of size 1828446806. file:///Applications/Witsy.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/renderer/main_window/assets/index-CYgvmRY2.js:12324
[2026-01-26 13:36:39.606] [info] [stt] whisper Xenova/whisper-medium file:///Applications/Witsy.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/renderer/main_window/assets/index-CYgvmRY2.js:12774

[blu3knight]

I got it working by switching the whisper model to Tiny, and then back to Medium. But something is still wrong when I open Witsy with Medium Model directly and try to use it.

Another time that did not work, so I switched to Apple and then back to Whisper Medium

[blu3knight]

Seen some changes were made for the Voice side in the current version.

[2026-02-02 19:56:48.052] [info] [whisper] error when initializing: Error: Can't create a session. failed to allocate a buffer of size 1828446806. file:///Applications/Witsy.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/renderer/main_window/assets/index-sdIi1STD.js:11588

But whatever changes were made now the Whisper Turbo Medium is redownloading all the time. Looks like something is going wrong with the Turbo Medium model.

The Turbo Small Model on download goes totally crazy...... with numbers going crazy... but complets the download and then

"An error occured during initialization. Please try again." and then starts the download process again. But ultimately it worked.