Spokenly Bark 3.0 review (2026): the new local dictation model explained
Spokenly's macOS release 2.33.0, dated 22 October 2026, added a 'Bark 3.0' local model for English dictation. This page sets out what the release notes say and what a public model card for Bark 3.0 states, with links.
Explainer based on public documentation, not hands-on testing. We have not used Spokenly for this page. Every statement below is taken from the public page shown in brackets. There is no rating or score. Written by Open Registry Data, 25 Oct 2026.
What Spokenly announced
- Spokenly's macOS release notes list version 2.33.0, dated October 22, 2026, with 'New Bark 3.0 local model for accurate English dictation'. [1]
- The same release lists a new Spokenly AI Smart model, new settings for MAI Transcribe and AssemblyAI models, and three more app languages. [1]
What the public Bark 3.0 model card says
- ConwayResearch publishes a Bark 3.0 model on Hugging Face, which it describes as a 0.6B-parameter English speech recognition model in a 163 MB download. [2]
- The publisher reports an average word error rate of 4.94% across the Open ASR Leaderboard's seven English test sets. That is the publisher's own figure. [2]
- The model card says Bark 3.0 is based on NVIDIA's parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3, is English only, and is licensed CC-BY-4.0. [2]
- It also says Bark 3.0 writes what was said, fillers such as 'um' and 'uh' included, and does not clean speech up. [2]
What we could not confirm
- Spokenly's release note does not link to a model card. The name and timing match ConwayResearch's Bark 3.0, but Spokenly's notes do not confirm it is the same model file. [1] [2]
What this page does not cover
We have not used Spokenly or Bark 3.0. Accuracy on your own voice, speed on your Mac and memory use are not covered here.
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Sources
- [1] Spokenly: Release Notes for macOS (2.33.0, 22 Oct 2026): https://spokenly.app/releases/macos (read 25 Oct 2026)
- [2] Hugging Face: ConwayResearch/Underdog-Bark-3.0 model card: https://huggingface.co/ConwayResearch/Underdog-Bark-3.0 (read 25 Oct 2026)
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