Whisper Face 0.1.0

First downloadable build. Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 14 or newer.

Install

1. Download WhisperFace-0.1.0-macOS-arm64.dmg and open it.
2. Drag Whisper Face 0.1.0 (the folder) somewhere you want to keep it, such as ~/Projects.
3. Open that folder and double-click Install.command.
4. When the installer finishes, grant Input Monitoring and Accessibility to "Whisper Face" under System Settings → Privacy & Security.

Hold Right Option, speak, release. The text lands at your cursor.

This build is unsigned

macOS will say it cannot verify the developer. This build is ad-hoc signed, not notarized, because the project is not yet enrolled in the Apple Developer Program. To open it anyway: right-click the app or Install.command and choose Open, then confirm.

You can check what you downloaded against SHA256SUMS:

shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS

A signed and notarized build is the plan; it needs Developer ID enrollment. Until then, permission grants also have to be renewed after each update, because an ad-hoc signature changes identity on every build.

What's in it

Built from a6e9c751bdc37b83b430bc166bc050cf60fa538b.

• The ten menu-bar characters now appear in colour in the app window, the first-run hero, and the Results empty state, instead of the flat menu-bar silhouette scaled up
• Pig gained a snout, so it no longer reads as a pink bear; dog's ears now match its own menu-bar mark
• Character geometry moved into one shared spec, so the recording HUD, the app window, and the website cannot drift apart
• Self-update is more durable, and lost dictation paths are surfaced rather than silently dropped

Everything still runs on your machine. No account, no word cap, no audio leaves the Mac.