diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0c4ebfd..18f813f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ this is a fun work in progress. if you want to use it and or develop for it be m
 Note:
 
 1) this will work with openai or ollama models. you will need to set up the .env for that as well as spotify
-2) this is designed to pull a custom voice from the alltalk project https://github.com/erew123/alltalk_tts, that is how I am cloning max headroom's voice. You can alter or simply not use this, it will currently fallback to pyttsx3.
-3) speech-to-text can use google, vosk, or faster-whisper. faster-whisper is currently the default and optimal method.
+2) this is designed to pull a custom voice from the alltalk project https://github.com/erew123/alltalk_tts, that is how I am cloning max headroom's voice. You can alter or simply not use this, it will currently fallback to pyttsx3 aka a robot voice.
+3) speech-to-text can use google, or faster-whisper. faster-whisper is currently the default and optimal method.
 
 Will move more variables to the .env folders soon.
 
diff --git a/example_env.txt b/example_env.txt
index 1cb5d2f..c9f2799 100644
--- a/example_env.txt
+++ b/example_env.txt
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ OPENAI_MODEL='gpt-4o-mini'
 OLLAMA_MODEL='gemma2' 
 OLLAMA_URL='http://localhost:11434' 
 CHARACTER='max' 
-spotify_client_id = ''
-spotify_client_secret = ''
-spotify_redirect_uri = 'http://localhost:8888/callback'
+#LISTEN_MODEL will take whisper or google, whisper is the default option and best for most cases
+LISTEN_MODEL='whisper' 
+SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID = ''
+SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET = ''
+SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URI = 'http://localhost:8888/callback'
 
 
 
diff --git a/modules/agent.py b/modules/agent.py
index e3dfb13..de2997b 100644
--- a/modules/agent.py
+++ b/modules/agent.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class Agent:
         self.ap = app_launcher.AppLauncher()
         self.wf = windows_focus.WindowFocusManager()
         self.llm = self.ad.llm_chat
-        self.spk = speak.Speak(model="whisper")
+        self.spk = speak.Speak(model=env("LISTEN_MODEL"))
         self.prompt = hub.pull("hwchase17/openai-functions-agent")
         self.char = env("CHARACTER").lower()
         self.char_prompt = getattr(prompts, self.char, "You are a helpful assistant. User Query: {query}")
diff --git a/modules/speak.py b/modules/speak.py
index 41448c6..f920317 100644
--- a/modules/speak.py
+++ b/modules/speak.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class Speak:
         self.microphone = sr.Microphone()
         self.engine = pyttsx3.init()
         self.engine.setProperty('rate', 150)
-        self.model_name = model
+        self.model_name = model.lower()
         self.sample_rate = 16000
         self.chunk_size = 1024
         self.noise_threshold = 500