Dictate 3.1

Dictate 3.1 makes recording a call something you no longer have to remember.

Dictate notices your calls. The moment a recognisable call starts — Zoom, Teams, FaceTime, Webex, or Google Meet in a browser tab — a small card drops from the top of the screen: Record or Not this one. It never records on its own; the offer is automatic, the recording is always your click. The card follows you across Spaces and full-screen apps, waits until you answer, and dismisses itself only if the call itself ends. Declining a call stays declined for that call.

Recording starts small. Accepting the card starts the compact recording pill, not the full window — you are on a call, and the pill now follows you across displays too (drag it somewhere and it stays put).

A forgotten recording ends itself. If the call's app has released the microphone and the air has stayed quiet, the recording stops about two minutes after everyone left; with no recognisable call around at all, ten silent minutes end it. While a call is live it never stops itself, however long the silence — a quiet hold is not an ending. The transcript's last line says which rule stopped it.

A quick Record button now sits at the top of the meeting list for the calls Dictate can't detect — and deleting a meeting works like deleting a conversation: right-click → Delete, with Undo and ⌘Z, and the file goes to the Trash rather than to nothing.

Download Dictate-3.1.dmg below — the -update file is the in-app updater's payload, not for manual installs.

Full Changelog: v3.0...v3.1