Inside Voice 1.5.5

• Fixed: an install that started with Whisper had no way to add Parakeet.
  The Setup Assistant's "Speech engine" row went green without a Download
  button. It now offers Parakeet when only Whisper is installed. Choosing
  an engine that isn't downloaded yet in Advanced → Engine now opens the
  Setup Assistant.

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Install: open the DMG, drag Inside Voice to Applications, launch — or with
Homebrew: brew trust BillDX/tap && brew tap BillDX/tap && brew install --cask inside-voice.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple: it opens without warnings.

SHA-256 of InsideVoice.dmg: a32bf9f0d24f9104af47b9054461ee7c02b95580bc1b3c3413f51475b4903343

Inside Voice 1.5.4

• Crash fix. Pressing the dictation key after the audio input had
  changed (a headset or dock plugged or unplugged, AirPods connecting,
  sleep/wake) could quit the app on the spot: the audio engine rejected a
  stale input format with an exception Swift cannot catch. Every dictation
  now starts a fresh audio engine, that call is fenced so a failure shows
  "Mic unavailable" instead of quitting, and an input change during a
  recording ends the dictation cleanly with what was heard so far (the
  menu says why until the next dictation). The reason for a capture
  failure goes to the unified log, category "audio"; still never any
  audio or text.
• Parakeet gets the decode watchdog whisper has had: a wedged decode aborts
  after twice the clip length (never under a minute) instead of leaving the
  app stuck on "Transcribing…" with the hotkey apparently dead. The whisper
  watchdog is now also kept alive for the whole decode; Swift was free to
  release it early.

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Install: open the DMG, drag Inside Voice to Applications, launch — or with
Homebrew: brew trust BillDX/tap && brew tap BillDX/tap && brew install --cask inside-voice.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple: it opens without warnings.

SHA-256 of InsideVoice.dmg: 5935092bbf36ee5d5a76f00420fcac57bcfc62de806eec2d012b8d980020e068

Inside Voice 1.5.3

• The hands-free lock (hold Right ⌥, tap Right ⌘, let go; tap Right ⌥ to
  finish) is now shown where you'll see it: a second line in the menu, the
  Setup Assistant (the Right ⌘ key is marked "lock" on the keyboard
  diagram, with a tip below it, and pressing the two keys confirms it),
  and the listening HUD in Modern, Glitter Text, and Top Secret
  ("⌘ to lock"). The README and User Guide now lead with both gestures.
• macOS 14 and 15 fix. Earlier releases bundled speech-engine libraries
  built for macOS 26. On macOS 14 (Sonoma) that kept the GPU (Metal) engine
  from loading, so Whisper fell back to the CPU and ran many times slower
  (Parakeet was unaffected). whisper.cpp and ggml are now built from source
  for macOS 14, and the build refuses to package any part that needs a
  newer macOS than the app supports. The bundle no longer includes
  libomp; ggml uses its own thread pool, with the same speed.

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Install: open the DMG, drag Inside Voice to Applications, launch — or with
Homebrew: brew trust BillDX/tap && brew tap BillDX/tap && brew install --cask inside-voice.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple: it opens without warnings.

SHA-256 of InsideVoice.dmg: b846ea73a469d0a24d1a094cbc20a9d27ac61239f4498d240145847bf454351f

Inside Voice 1.5.2

• New About Inside Voice menu item: version, copyright, a plain
  statement of the license and the no-warranty terms, and links to the
  license texts shipped inside the app.
• Licensing: LICENSING.md now spells out attribution. Both licenses
  require keeping the copyright and license notices; under the GPL option,
  forks must also keep the author attribution in the About panel and say
  that their version is modified (GPL section 7(b) and (c)). Every source
  file now carries a copyright and SPDX license header.

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Install: open the DMG, drag Inside Voice to Applications, launch — or with
Homebrew: brew trust BillDX/tap && brew tap BillDX/tap && brew install --cask inside-voice.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple: it opens without warnings.

SHA-256 of InsideVoice.dmg: f025a0a428c8c24ed704e045c9f931347143d91bff8c6c80d0681b34e5aa654d

Inside Voice 1.5.1

• The Mission: Danger! theme is now called Top Secret. If you had it
  selected, it stays selected.
• Top Secret's teletype is cheekier: every dictation gets a new silly
  codename (COME IN SOGGY WAFFLE STOP, MIDNIGHT BISCUIT HAS THE FLOOR STOP)
  that also goes on the folder, decoding reads INTERCEPT RECEIVED, the
  sign-off is DELIVERED STOP SHRED AFTER READING STOP, and the final stamp
  says CASE CLOSED.

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Install: open the DMG, drag Inside Voice to Applications, launch — or with
Homebrew: brew trust BillDX/tap && brew tap BillDX/tap && brew install --cask inside-voice.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple: it opens without warnings.

SHA-256 of InsideVoice.dmg: 770e708e06638ba8020a508c7be400785656f2ea02e31f4d20a7922b889d9f4f

Inside Voice 1.5.0

• New theme: Mission: Danger! — a 1960s secret-agent case file. A
  manila folder stamped TOP SECRET; a teletype prints the wire
  telegram-style (AGENT ON THE WIRE STOP SPEAK NOW STOP) while a strip of
  five-hole paper tape is punched in time with your voice, and the punch's
  lamp shows red for recording, blinking for locked, amber for decoding.
  While transcribing, the teletype hammers out five-letter cipher groups;
  when the text lands, a worn red FILE CLOSED stamp slams onto the file.
• Fixed: dictating into the Setup Assistant's test field did nothing,
  though typing worked. Inside Voice lives in the menu bar with no main
  menu, so nothing picked up the ⌘V it posts to deliver text into its own
  window. It now has a hidden Edit menu, so dictation, ⌘C, ⌘V, ⌘A and ⌘Z
  all work in that field. Dictating into other apps was never affected.
• Fixed: with Glitter Text, starting a new dictation within about a second
  of the last one landing left the HUD invisible for that whole dictation,
  because the glitter bomb's fade-out kept running. A new dictation now
  cancels it.
• RetroComp '82's banner now reads **** INSIDE VOICE '82 ****, matching
  the theme's name. If you had the theme selected, it stays selected.

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Install: open the DMG, drag Inside Voice to Applications, launch — or with
Homebrew: brew trust BillDX/tap && brew tap BillDX/tap && brew install --cask inside-voice.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple: it opens without warnings.

SHA-256 of InsideVoice.dmg: af634cc6b4d1f302425a23e868b7f46b4a66ee029e7af9e67acc26ee0b3b6e38

Inside Voice 1.4.0

• First notarized release. Signed with a Developer ID under the hardened
  runtime, notarized by Apple and stapled: the DMG opens with no Gatekeeper
  warning, and the Homebrew cask no longer needs --no-quarantine. The
  signing identity changed with this, so macOS asks for Microphone, Input
  Monitoring, and Accessibility once more after updating; the Setup
  Assistant opens to walk through it, and Launch at Login needs one click.
• New theme: Glitter Text — early-2000s glitter graphics. Bubbly
  sticker-edged letters filled with shimmering pink, gold, and lilac and
  twinkling flecks, a holographic shine sweep, a pastel sky of drifting
  sparkles. Headlines rotate (SPARKLE ON, SO SHINY, USE YOUR INSIDE
  VOICE); LOCKED IN gets a glittery padlock; LOADING
  gets three chasing sparkles; the meter is a glitter bar whose flecks
  thicken with your voice. When the text lands, a glitter bomb of hearts,
  stars, and dots bursts from the headline and the panel fades out.
• Themes can now play a send-off after the transcript is inserted
  (outroDuration / beginOutro on ThemeHUDView); the HUD stays up for
  that long, and a new utterance cancels it. --snapshot-hud … --state outro renders the moment.
• Themes trimmed: Starship, Punch Card, and Happy Cloud removed while
  the theme set is revised before the first notarized release. Anyone who
  had one selected falls back to Modern. Six themes remain: Modern, Green
  Phosphor, Red Eye, RetroComp '82, Oscilloscope, Groovy.
• Release pipeline: Developer ID signing with hardened runtime and a secure
  timestamp, notarization and stapling of both the app and the DMG
  (scripts/notarize.sh, wired into publish-release.sh). The first
  notarized build changes the app's signing identity, so macOS will ask
  for Microphone, Input Monitoring, and Accessibility once more; the Setup
  Assistant walks through it.

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Install: open the DMG, drag Inside Voice to Applications, launch — or with
Homebrew: brew trust BillDX/tap && brew tap BillDX/tap && brew install --cask inside-voice.
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple: it opens without warnings.

SHA-256 of InsideVoice.dmg: 94a4338c425a4a9b49c102cc83a7fc13009ad94279151d6770395b1401956e0d

Inside Voice 1.3.0

• Renamed to Inside Voice (was LocalWhisper). Models, vocabulary,
  substitution rules, and settings move to the new locations automatically
  on first launch (~/Library/Application Support/Inside Voice/,
  defaults domain com.thinkiac.InsideVoice). The bundle identifier
  changed, so macOS sees a new app: re-grant Microphone, Input Monitoring,
  and Accessibility once (the Setup Assistant opens to walk you through it)
  and re-enable Launch at Login. Delete the old LocalWhisper.app. The retro
  themes print the new name; developer env overrides are now
  INSIDEVOICE_MODEL / INSIDEVOICE_PARAKEET_MODEL.
• Homebrew tap: brew trust BillDX/tap && brew tap BillDX/tap && brew install --cask inside-voice.
• Public repo moved to github.com/BillDX/InsideVoice; old links redirect.

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Install: open the DMG, drag Inside Voice to Applications, launch — or with
Homebrew: brew trust BillDX/tap && brew tap BillDX/tap && brew install --cask inside-voice. Builds are not yet notarized —
see the one-time Gatekeeper step.

SHA-256 of InsideVoice.dmg: b667bf7170aa249275d182e0c5085ecac65e6d40f4de877d556c9a7b9de7dae7

LocalWhisper 1.2.0

• First public download release: DMG and docs at
  github.com/BillDX/LocalWhisper.
  The source repository stays private for now; LICENSING.md states the terms
  it will publish under.
• Licensing: LocalWhisper is now dual-licensed EUPL-1.2 OR GPL-3.0-or-later (was GPL-3.0 only; purely additive — every existing
  right is unchanged). New LICENSING.md (dual grant, commercial licensing,
  trademark policy) and CONTRIBUTING.md (contributor license agreement,
  Signed-off-by sign-off). The license texts now ship inside the app
  bundle next to THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md.
• New theme: Happy Cloud — an 8-bit sprite: chunky 5-pt pixels, thick
  outline, 2×2 eyes, an open mouth on the belly. A rainbow pours straight
  down out of the mouth, bends through a quarter-arc pixel elbow, and runs
  off left as a stepped river that is the level meter.
  Blinks, splash droplets that scale with volume, pixel rainbow arch and a
  smiling "digesting" face while transcribing, two-line 3×5 pixel-font
  headlines ("SHARING / THE MAGIC").
• Think Pink and Rainbow Unicorn themes removed. Anyone who had either
  selected falls back to Modern. Nine themes total.

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Install: open the DMG, drag LocalWhisper to Applications, launch. Builds are
not yet notarized — see the one-time Gatekeeper step.

SHA-256 of LocalWhisper.dmg: 43df1636ae66e2bd1b89cafb26a9e2bce8654baf1fa01b46884ade6627eb346b