Changelog

Features

• Updates: adds Stable and Beta release channels so you can choose early builds or stay on production releases
• Audio feedback: adds optional cues for recording ready, transcription processing, and successful text delivery
• Support: replaces the compact report modal with a dedicated page that gathers diagnostics, previews system details, and keeps email and copy fallbacks
• Formatting: explains how speech models infer punctuation and shows whether optional AI formatting ran or was skipped

Fixes

• Windows: prefers a discrete GPU on hybrid systems, guards CPU fallback against memory exhaustion, improves transcript spacing, and reduces trailing-silence hallucinations
• Hotkeys: accepts injected input so Stream Deck and other external tools can trigger recording
• Tray: recovers from temporary startup failures, keeps the dashboard reachable, and includes tray diagnostics in support reports
• File uploads: constrains long speaker timelines so Copy and Save remain reachable
• Licensing: retries temporary validation failures, repairs stale device activations, and preserves paid access while revalidation is unavailable

Features

• Cloud STT: warms the active cloud speech-to-text connection at recording start so the first transcription skips the DNS, TCP, and TLS handshake
• AI formatting: pre-warms the active AI-polish connection whenever formatting is enabled with a configured provider
• Performance: reuses one pooled HTTP client across requests instead of rebuilding it per call, speeding up back-to-back dictations

Fixes

• Cloud STT: validates the Deepgram API key against its documented token endpoint and surfaces a precise "model unavailable — check the key's scopes and your plan" message instead of a misleading "invalid key"
• Cloud STT: updates Soniox to its current async transcription model
• Cloud STT: shows the underlying transcription model on each cloud provider card

Features

• Hotkeys: unifies key combos, bare-modifier holds, and isolated taps onto one native trigger engine, retiring the old global-shortcut plugin
• Hotkeys: lone-modifier recording hotkeys now fire even while a Voicetypr text field is focused, via an in-app fallback
• Tray: theme-adaptive tray icon that matches the Windows light or dark taskbar

Fixes

• Tray: never crashes on startup when the system tray fails to initialize on Windows
• Windows: ships debug symbols (.pdb) so crash reports symbolicate to real frames
• Hotkeys: arms an upgraded combo at startup and no longer swallows bare modifiers on Windows
• Hotkeys: clears the old combo hotkey before saving a bare-modifier primary so recording can't double-fire
• Windows: guards monitor queries against a stale-handle crash when the display configuration changes

Features

• Diagnostics: crash and error reporting defaults to opt-out with clearer consent wording

Fixes

• Recording: prevents a Windows crash from an unbounded audio buffer size and isolates device-callback panics so a hiccup can't abort the app
• Recording: finalizes recorder teardown on a path independent of device disconnects
• Hotkeys: wraps the Windows low-level keyboard hook so a hook failure can't take down input
• Transcription: hard-timeouts in-process Whisper decoding to stop indefinite "Transcribing…" hangs, and aborts the watchdog before remapping completed results
• Hotkeys: single-tap triggers now work in onboarding, matching the Shortcuts page
• Settings: avoids a window-state panic when changing the pill offset
• Models: keeps a known model selected on startup, opens native microphone settings, and shows animated progress for Parakeet downloads
• Onboarding: exposes the model Repair action for parity with the dashboard
• Permissions: routes grant buttons to the native settings panes

Features

• Speech-to-text: adds cloud transcription providers — Soniox, OpenAI, Groq, Deepgram, and Cohere — selectable per recording
• AI formatting: rebuilds AI polish natively in Rust for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints, with a searchable model catalog and a deterministic fallback when formatting fails
• Transcription: unifies local, cloud, and remote transcription behind one engine, with cancel-anywhere, a decode watchdog, silence handling, and device-disconnect recovery
• Upload: adds cloud speaker diarization for file uploads (Deepgram, Soniox), producing speaker-attributed transcripts you can save as .txt or .md
• CLI: installs the `voicetypr` command on your PATH so terminals, scripts, and AI agents can drive transcription directly, with consistent --json output
• History: stores rich per-entry metadata (source, engine, language, duration, diarized) with source, app, and date filters, plus a Show original / Show formatted toggle
• Windows: choose GPU, CPU, or Auto transcription acceleration in Settings and onboarding
• Windows: adds a Microsoft Store (MSIX) distribution option, with in-app updates managed by the Store for Store installs
• Shortcuts: streamlines the recording shortcut to one flow, with first-class single-key push-to-talk, a bindable Toggle AI formatting key, and lone-modifier hold-to-talk

Fixes

• Transcription: shows short, plain messages in the recording overlay instead of long internal error strings, pointing auth and model failures to Settings
• AI: validates custom OpenAI-compatible connections the way formatting actually runs, so Test no longer falsely passes on a public models list

Features

• Recording: replaces the destructive silence auto-stop with non-destructive warnings, so a quiet pause no longer discards in-progress audio
• Bug reports: collect full system specs (GPU, CPU, model) so issues are faster to diagnose

Fixes

• Recording: recovers from autonomous recorder stops that previously left recording stuck
• Recording: runs stop cleanup on the recorder-error path so a failed recorder no longer hangs the session
• Recording: requires sustained voice before treating audio as speech, reducing false starts from brief noise
• Windows: pauses media players that under-report pause support while recording
• Bug reports: skip software display adapters during GPU detection so the real GPU is reported

Fixes

• Transcription: disables Whisper temperature fallback retries for the CPU profile to reduce latency on short recordings
• Transcription: adds bounded timeout and cooperative cancellation handling for local Whisper recording transcription
• Feedback: treats empty output, [SOUND], and [BLANK_AUDIO] as no-speech cases with a clear message
• Release: pins Windows CI and release runners to VS 2022 so Windows builds do not fail on unsupported VS 2026 CMake generator detection

Fixes

• Models: replaces stale checksum metadata so valid Whisper downloads are no longer deleted after verification
• Onboarding: surfaces terminal download errors and aligns model readiness with the main Models tab
• Windows: ignores duplicate toggle hotkey press events while the shortcut is held, preventing empty recordings

Fixes

• Models: keeps the UI responsive while a download is in progress
• Downloads: prevents status refreshes from racing active model operations

Fixes

• Windows: repairs local model catalog downloads and related runtime packaging
• Windows: warms the optional Vulkan sidecar more reliably without making the main app depend on Vulkan
• Updater: backs out a passive installer path that could hide elevation prompts on some machines

Fixes

• Windows: optimizes transcription fallback so CPU-only recovery is more usable when GPU acceleration is unavailable

Fixes

• Windows: fixes Vulkan sidecar timing fields so GPU responses parse correctly
• Transcription: prevents the 1.12.4 GPU path from falling back to unusably slow CPU transcription after successful sidecar work

Features

• AI: restored the native Anthropic provider with current model aliases

Fixes

• Windows: moved optional Vulkan Whisper acceleration into a sidecar so the main app remains CPU-safe
• Updater: shows update availability without silently downloading or installing by default
• Windows: fixed updater elevation by using the basic UI installer flow
• Recording: prevents duplicate push-to-talk press events from starting overlapping flows
• Support: adds hotkey diagnostics/report context for shortcut failures
• macOS: keeps Parakeet sidecar JSON responses clean when CoreML emits native diagnostics

Features

• Settings: auto-paste toggle keeps transcripts in history without auto-inserting them
• Support: in-app bug and crash report submission with system info and a redacted app-log excerpt

Fixes

• Support: hardened report validation, stale-submit guards, fallback behavior, and log redaction
• Settings: restored scrolling on Upload, General, Help, Advanced, and Formatting pages after the sidebar layout change

Fixes

• Transcription: fixes truncation in long recordings; preserves explicit insertion boundaries
• Transcription: preserves sentence spacing on insert and uses compatible punctuation matching
• Recording: hardened push-to-talk startup, license fallback, and abort handling
• Windows: reduced crash paths and bundled the WebView2 offline installer for clean first-run installs
• UI: kept sidebar navigation accessible and routed settings nav to the correct tab
• License: shows the Manage License button when a license is already active
• AI: persists AI formatting across restart by warming cached credentials from secure storage
• Updater: removed stale v1 dialog config and uses a versioned update marker for post-update UX
• Autostart: moved autostart toggles to backend-owned commands for atomic OS state management

Fixes

• OpenAI: handles token and temperature compatibility for gpt-5

Breaking changes

• AI: removed the standalone Anthropic provider — Anthropic models still reachable via OpenAI-compatible config

Features

• macOS: Intel Mac (x86_64) support
• AI: multi-provider AI formatting (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) with curated model lists
• AI: language-aware formatting and stale microphone validation
• Recording: sound-on-end with toggle, plus a pill indicator mode dropdown (Never / Always / When Recording)
• Recording: indicator position setting with 6 options and configurable edge offset
• Audio: pause media during recording so background audio doesn't talk over your captures
• Crash reporter UI with GitHub issue integration

Fixes

• Windows: ARM64 crash fix — Vulkan GPU disabled, CPU threads optimized
• Windows: bundled runtime, hardened fresh-install behavior, hides console flash on recording start
• Audio: prevents app hang when an audio device doesn't respond to cleanup; platform-specific stream cleanup
• Audio: delay after start sound for Bluetooth headset compatibility
• Media: improved pause/resume reliability; uses osascript playback toggle on macOS
• AI: isolates custom and OpenAI provider key/config handling
• UI: removed unwanted white ring border; consistent ring styling on pill and toast
• UI: slider now shows a single value instead of a range
• Networking: per-request HTTP clients; media resumes on recording errors

Features

• Updater: session-aware auto-updates with notification support
• macOS: dock icon toggles based on main window visibility

Fixes

• Updater: auto-installs updates in the background; About section uses the unified update service
• Windows signing: avoids dropping empty password; uses pnpm tauri signer; correct key file path flag

Features

• Pill UI simplified to a minimal 3-dot indicator with a separate toast window
• Pill/toast moves lower on screen and auto-repositions on monitor change
• Critical pill events queue for reliable delivery
• Clipboard retention preference
• AI model availability and auto-selection improvements

Fixes

• Microphone permission prompts deferred until onboarding completes
• Audio device listeners clean up properly
• AI config auto-selection improvements
• OpenAI config UX: Update button, better switch visibility
• Recording feedback: sound, throttle, and duration gates
• Toast notification: dynamic width and clearer error messages
• Recording errors routed via pill toast
• Microphone list synced with system
• Watchdog timeout treated as the only timeout signal
• Windows: device ID fallback and license status timeout
• Logs: API keys redacted
• License: error and reset edge cases hardened

Features

• Parakeet MLX sidecar integration (macOS Apple Silicon)
• Parakeet v2/v3 version-aware download / load / delete with FluidAudio 0.6.1
• Tray: unified model selection that stays in sync with the dashboard
• Replaced Python Parakeet with a Swift / FluidAudio implementation
• Windows: updated bundled ffmpeg

Fixes

• Audio: prevents empty / ultra-short recordings from erroring; mode-specific min durations (PTT ≥ 1s, Toggle ≥ 3s); auto-recovers Error → Idle
• macOS: bundles ffmpeg/ffprobe via platform config so packaged-app normalization works
• Parakeet: model selection persists across restarts
• Parakeet: scoped to macOS builds; sidecar build issues resolved
• Tray: gates selection until onboarding completes