1.5.1
Latest
Jun 26, 2026
Auto-focus any app, Response mode
- Auto-focus any installed app — the Automation dropdown now lists every app on your Mac (Word, WhatsApp, Slack…), searchable by name, alongside the dev/terminal favorites.
- Response mode — choose when replies are spoken: on dictated turns only, typed turns only, or always. Per-project override via
OW_TTS_RESPONSE.
- Snappier menu — fixed a 3–4s freeze when opening the menubar popover by moving a blocking launch-at-login check off the main thread.
- Automation polish, in-app help hints on every section, and a tidier menu layout.
Fully native — no Python
- Fully native — speech-to-text (WhisperKit) and text-to-speech (Kokoro) now run in-process on the Apple Neural Engine. The Python server, virtualenv, and
setup.sh are gone. Install is just "drag to Applications."
- In-app streaming playback + instant barge-in — replies start speaking after the first sentence; "hold on" cancels audio and in-flight synthesis in-process.
- Tagless voice mode — no more
[VOICE:] tag; a hook fingerprints each dictation and routes the spoken reply to the right session.
- Warm redesign matching the site, WhisperKit 1.0, and a fix for garbled speech on some Apple Silicon chips.
Streaming TTS
- Streaming text-to-speech — speech starts after the first sentence instead of waiting for the whole response, with gapless playback and near-instant barge-in.
- Codex CLI TTS honors your in-app volume; setup finds Python from pyenv, conda, MacPorts, or Intel Homebrew.
- Stability and security fixes: overlay teardown crash, mis-routed text edge cases, and a removed AppleScript-injection vector.
New icon & polish
- New diamond app icon, transcription-overlay separators, refreshed dependencies, and full open-source credits.
Custom controls, hands-free polish
- New waveform/terminal-cursor logo, custom menu and checkbox controls, a silence progress bar, and hardened installation.
Hands-free bug fixes
- 11 hands-free fixes (silence detection, barge-in, keyword matching), collapsible Voice Settings, and persistent card states.
Hands-Free Mode & Hold-to-Talk
- Hands-Free Mode — say "initiate" to start, silence auto-transcribes, "hold on" interrupts, all via on-device keyword detection.
- Hold-to-Talk added as a third input mode alongside Press-to-Talk, plus a new gradient waveform icon.
Native focus, 11 voices
- Native app focus without System Events permission, a configurable push-to-talk key, 11 Kokoro voices, 15 auto-focus apps, and a 17-fix Swift audit.
Accessibility prompt, voice detail levels
- First-launch Accessibility prompt with live status, Brief/Natural/Detailed spoken-summary levels, barge-in, and a smaller overlay.
Built-in Push-to-Talk
- Built-in push-to-talk (no external dictation app needed), reliable auto-focus, the transcription overlay, an events log, and a language selector.
Auto-Submit & Auto-Focus
- Say "submit" to press Cmd+Enter, auto-focus the target app after transcription, configurable ports, and 17 bug fixes.
First release — macOS menubar app
- The original menubar app for voice mode with Claude Code on Apple Silicon: start/stop servers, a Claude Code hook, and on-device Whisper + Kokoro.