Dictation
Three engines to choose between in Settings ▸ Dictation: Apple's built-in
recogniser (default, nothing to download, streams as you speak), local
Whisper, or local Parakeet v3, which detects the language itself and is
the fastest of the three on the Neural Engine. Both local engines transcribe
entirely on your Mac.
The local engines now record the whole push-to-talk hold and transcribe once
you let go — the pipeline shape Handy uses —
so the end of a sentence no longer gets clipped. A Silero VAD drops silence
before the model ever sees it, which is what stops Whisper hallucinating a
"Thank you." into a pause.
An existing "use local Whisper" preference carries over to the new picker.
A Windows 95 skin
Settings and the full chat window are restyled: navy title bars with working
minimise / maximise / close, etched group boxes, square tick boxes, sunken
text fields, a sunken chat well with a proper checkerboard scrollbar, and a
status strip along the bottom. The chat window's face is translucent over a
blur of what's behind it.
The floating balloon, onboarding, and chat history are unchanged.
Full detail in CHANGELOG.md.