Synopsis
Description
Downloads a model from the Hugging Face Hub and caches it locally. Supports resuming interrupted downloads.Arguments
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
<MODEL> | Model variant to download |
Options
| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
-f, --force | Force re-download even if exists | — |
-y, --yes | Download without confirmation | — |
Examples
Download a model
Skip confirmation
Force re-download
Available Models
Runizwi list to see all available models.
Common models:
| Model | Type | Size |
|---|---|---|
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base | TTS (base) | ~2.3 GB |
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice-4bit | TTS (built-in voices) | ~1.6 GB |
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign-4bit | TTS (voice design) | ~2.2 GB |
Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603 | TTS (20 preset voices, CC BY-NC 4.0) | ~8.1 GB |
Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v3 | ASR (default) | ~9.4 GB |
Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-GGUF | ASR (compact) | ~1.0 GB |
Nemotron-3.5-ASR-Streaming-0.6B | ASR (NVIDIA multilingual .nemo) | ~2.37 GB |
Granite-Speech-4.1-2B-Plus | ASR (IBM rich transcription) | ~4.2 GB |
Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 | ASR (offline transcription; realtime planned) | ~8 GB |
Qwen3-8B-GGUF | Chat | ~5.2 GB |
Qwen3.5-4B | Chat | ~3.4 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-GGUF | Chat | ~0.7 GB |
Gemma-3-1b-it | Chat | ~2.2 GB |
Resume Downloads
If a download is interrupted, run the same command again. The download will resume from where it left off.See Also
izwi list— List modelsizwi rm— Remove models- Models Guide — Model documentation