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Configuring AI providers and defaults

Your finished transcript and speaker labels always run on your computer with the bundled local models — there's nothing to configure for those. Providers here covers two optional things you can add a key for: the AI service that writes your summaries, and (on a lighter laptop) a Deepgram key for real-time live captions. Daisy can use cloud providers such as Groq, OpenAI, and Anthropic for summaries, Deepgram for live captions, or local servers such as LM Studio and Ollama. Every cloud provider is optional and uses your own API key, billed directly to you. Daisy never proxies or marks up that usage.

Add a summary provider key

  1. Go to Settings and open the Providers section.
  2. Find the provider you want under Summarization.
  3. Select Configure (or Edit if a key already exists).
  4. Paste your API key, and adjust the Base URL if needed. For LM Studio and Ollama, no key is required; Daisy just needs the base URL of the running server.
  5. Select Test key & list models (or Test connection & list models for keyless local servers).
  6. Pick a model from the list, or type a custom model name, then select Save.

To remove a stored key later, reopen the editor and select Clear key.

There are three ways to handle the summary step: run a local model (LM Studio or Ollama), add your own provider key (above), or let Daisy Cloud run the AI step for you so there's no key to manage. With Daisy Cloud, recording and transcription stay on your machine and only text is sent — see What is Daisy Cloud?.

Add a Deepgram key for live captions (laptops)

On desktops and Apple Silicon Macs, live captions run on-device and need no setup. On a lighter laptop you can stream live captions through your own Deepgram realtime key for a lighter footprint on the machine — this affects only the live overlay, not your finished transcript or speaker labels (both stay local).

  1. Go to Settings → Providers and find Deepgram under Transcription.
  2. Select Configure and paste your Deepgram API key.
  3. Select Test key, then Save.
  4. In Settings → Behavior, set the live-captions source to your Deepgram key.

Prefer to stay fully on-device? Skip this and either keep live captions on-device or turn the live transcript off and take the full transcript when the call ends.

Set your defaults

In Settings, open the Behavior section to choose what Daisy uses by default:

  • Default microphone — the input device for new recordings.
  • Live captions source — on a laptop, on-device or your Deepgram realtime key (desktops and Apple Silicon Macs are on-device automatically).
  • Default summary provider — which provider writes summaries.
  • Summary model override — a specific model for summaries; leave blank to use the provider's default.
  • Default language — the language Daisy expects to hear.
  • Echo cancellation (AEC) — Auto (recommended), Always, or Never, for removing speaker echo from your microphone track.

Good to know

  • A provider only appears in the Behavior dropdowns once it has a role configured under Providers.
  • All keys are stored in Daisy's vault on your machine. If you secured the vault with a passphrase, there is no recovery if you lose it. On a trusted-this-machine vault, Daisy unlocks automatically — see Your vault and profile folder.