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@DevEmperor DevEmperor released this 05 Sep 11:37
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Dictate 6.1.2 is a small release: mostly repairs, plus a few things that were missing. Like 6.1.1 it installs quietly — no what's-new tour, no update notice.

✨ New

  • Hindi is laid out the way Hindi is taught. (#315) The varnamala layout is now the default, the vowel row shows the matra it is about to attach, and the number row carries Devanagari digits — per language, so no other layout is affected.
  • Russian can mark where the stress falls. (#328) Long-press a vowel for its accented form.
  • The sticker panel grew up. (#317, #308) Search stickers by name, drag packs into your own order, give every folder back its own favourites and recents, and optionally be asked before a sticker is sent.
  • The emoji and media panels match the rest of the keyboard. Search sits where the categories are, categories scroll sideways, and every panel header uses the same icon size.

🐛 Fixed

  • A floating dictation could land in the wrong field. (#310) It used to search the whole window for something editable — Chrome's address bar, WhatsApp's message box — and pull the cursor there first. It now writes only where the input focus already is.
  • "Green check, but no text" now asks the field itself. The read-back used to go through the same connection as the write, so a dictation into an editor the app had discarded was faithfully reported as having arrived.
  • Autocorrect no longer eats the digit in top10. (#311)
  • Rewording uses the model the dialog says it will use. (#313) Retired default models are replaced with ones that still answer, and a failure now says which model it came from when nobody picked one.
  • OpenRouter transcription works again. (#321) Its plain model list hides every speech model, so Dictate was offering none; the default is a current model, the size ceiling is the one OpenRouter actually enforces, and the language field is the one it reads.
  • .opus and other voice notes upload correctly. (#322) What an audio file is is now read out of the file rather than its name, providers declare what they accept, and a conversion happens before the upload instead of a rejection after it.
  • Keyboard sounds explain themselves. (#324) On phones that ship with Android's touch sounds off, or with the ringer on vibrate, the keyboard was silent with both switches on. The settings screen now names the gate that is closed and takes you to it.
  • Swipe gestures commit under your finger. (#327) Plus feedback for the gestures and panels that had none, and haptics that no longer scale down to nothing. (#325, #326)
  • The floating button stays where you put it. (#323) Its position is remembered as a side and a fraction rather than pixels, so rotating, folding or splitting the screen no longer strands it.
  • Panel polish: the GIF panel dims behind its action sheet, the long-press menu is drawn inside the panel, the scrollbar measures rows rather than items, and a digit typed into a search box lands in the search box.