mumblr 0.1.6

mumblr

Ultra specific voice recorder for development work: talk, get markdown, hand it to Claude Code.

Portable: download mumblr-<version>-win-Portable.zip, unzip anywhere, put the folder on your PATH,
then run mumblr . in the repo you are working in.

Installer: mumblr-<version>-win-Setup.exe installs per user and puts mumblr on your PATH,
so mumblr . works from any folder. Open a new terminal afterwards - a PATH change does not
reach one that is already running. In-app updates need a release feed the app can read; see the
repository if the version button reports that it could not reach one.

Fixed in 0.1.6

• claude -p runs with the customization layer off (--safe-mode). Until now your own hooks
  fired over the dictation file: a PostToolUse hook that formats or lints edited files would
  reformat a paragraph of spoken German, and an output style would rewrite the summary the log
  shows. The prompt could only ask for that to be ignored; the flag enforces it.
• A command that changed nothing says so. claude can succeed and still do nothing - ask a
  question, decide there is nothing to change - and the log reported that as "done".
• The prompt sent with each command was rewritten. It no longer forbids what the tool cannot do
  anyway, and it now says the things nothing else enforces: the command came through
  speech-to-text and may be garbled, there is nobody to ask, and the summary should say what
  changed rather than repeat the request.

Fixed in 0.1.5

• The installer puts mumblr on your PATH. It did not, and neither did unzipping the
  portable build, so the one command the whole app exists for - mumblr . in a repo folder -
  answered "The term 'mumblr' is not recognized". Uninstalling removes the entry again. Open a new
  terminal after installing.
• The status line is no longer squeezed out by the hotkey hint next to it, and both carry a
  tooltip with their full text. The window can no longer be resized until the toolbar's right-hand
  controls leave the screen.

Fixed in 0.1.4

• A key press on the command key while another command was running derailed it. The release
  ended whatever command happened to be active - not the one it started - marking it failed,
  unlocking the editor and resuming dictation underneath a claude call that was still writing to
  the file. A second one could start a second transcription backend on top of the first.
• A hold shorter than the pause it triggers is no longer swallowed. Stopping the realtime
  backend takes up to five seconds; a quick press and release fell entirely inside that window and
  left the session stuck with the microphone running.
• Copy is refused while claude is editing the file. It flushed the buffer straight over the
  edit in progress.
• The prebuilt command button is called Grammar, not "Grammatik". The window is English; the
  command it sends is still German, because the text it edits is. A config.json written by an
  earlier version keeps the old label - rename it there, or delete the entry and let it be
  recreated.
• The update button says it will restart, and refuses to while a command is running.
• The command log keeps the effort next to the model, and the batch backend can report an error
  state at all.
• Closing the window during a recording no longer leaves a websocket open, and running the tests
  no longer creates a folder in your home directory.

Fixed in 0.1.3

• Dictations are no longer written into the app's own install folder. Started from the start
  menu shortcut, mumblr wrote into the Velopack current directory, which the next update
  replaces wholesale - the file and its WAV would have been deleted by the first update that
  landed. A target inside the application directory now falls back to Documents\mumblr.
• A rejected transcription survives everything that happens afterwards. Copying, reverting or
  reloading the config mid-recording used to erase the error message, and the stop line then
  reported a clean stop over an empty buffer.
• A failing command warns instead of reporting in informational grey, and the "Recording resumed."
  message no longer overwrites it.
• The command log names the model that actually answered, read out of the CLI's own envelope,
  rather than the one the config asked for.
• The character count follows what you type, not only what mumblr writes.
• A prebuilt button and the hold key can no longer both start a command in the moment channel 1 is
  being paused - that could run two claude -p processes on one file.
• A typo in keytermsEncoding falls back to the encoding that works instead of the one that made
  every request fail.

Fixed in 0.1.2

• Release assets carry their version in the filename.
• The update check no longer claims to be the latest build when it never managed to ask.

Fixed in 0.1.1

• Dictation works again. 0.1.0 packed the keyterm list into a single value, which ElevenLabs
  read as one oversized keyterm and refused - every fresh install failed on its very first
  recording. Keyterms now go out as repeated parameters, and a term the API would reject is
  dropped instead of killing the request.
• A rejected request is no longer invisible: the stop message stopped overwriting the error that
  explained it.
• The status bar now shows the microphone, the STT backend's actual state, a key-present
  indicator, the character count and the running version.
• Prebuilt command buttons: the edits you dictate word for word every day are a click, with no
  microphone and no transcription round trip.
• A blank model or effort in the config can no longer downgrade a command; it falls back to Opus
  at high effort.

What is in this build

• mumblr . creates dictated-<timestamp>.md in the folder you pass, with the WAV next to it
• Channel 1: dictation through ElevenLabs Scribe v2, realtime (default) or batch, no_verbatim on,
  auto language detection, user maintained keyterms and dictionary replacements
• Channel 2: hold the command key, speak an edit ("delete the last sentence", "clean this up"),
  and a local claude -p applies it to the file - with a command log, a snapshot and a revert hotkey
• Explicit microphone choice with a level meter; mumblr never follows the Windows default device
• Global hotkeys that work while your IDE has focus

Before the first run

Set your ElevenLabs key as an environment variable - mumblr never reads it from a config file:

setx ELEVENLABS_API_KEY "your-key"

claude must be on your PATH for channel 2.