HoldTalk 1.1.3

Full Changelog: v1.1.2...v1.1.3

HoldTalk 1.1.2

Full Changelog: v1.1.1...v1.1.2

HoldTalk 1.1.1

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.1.1

HoldTalk 1.1.0

Full Changelog: v1.0.2...v1.1.0

HoldTalk 1.0.2

What's new

• 🎨 Menu bar items now have SF Symbol icons (Settings, Check for Updates, Quit)
• 🔄 Settings: icon on the auto-update toggle, version row with Check Now
• ⬆ Update-available menu item polish

Install

git clone https://github.com/DevWizardHQ/HoldTalk.git && cd HoldTalk && ./setup.sh

Or download the zip below (Apple Silicon), move to /Applications, xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/HoldTalk.app, and brew install whisper-cpp.

Existing users on 1.0.1: HoldTalk will offer this update automatically.

Checksum

7286dd4d6d8488918f4c67afeca5255a14fe37878976950da974310c439b0f92  HoldTalk-1.0.2-macos-arm64.zip

HoldTalk 1.0.1

What's new

• 🔄 Auto-update: HoldTalk now checks GitHub for new releases (on launch + daily, toggleable in Settings) and updates itself in place — checksum-verified, permissions preserved, automatic relaunch
• Menu bar: Check for Updates…; Settings: version info + Check Now

Install

git clone https://github.com/DevWizardHQ/HoldTalk.git && cd HoldTalk && ./setup.sh

Or download the zip below (Apple Silicon), move to /Applications, xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/HoldTalk.app, and brew install whisper-cpp.

Checksum

407e94390abbae2a5ca30041d157a5e6511ebd098cdf886c0e6f4b726fa0709d  HoldTalk-1.0.1-macos-arm64.zip

HoldTalk 1.0.0

First release of HoldTalk — push-to-talk dictation for macOS, 100% free and offline.

Hold a key, speak Bangla or English, release: your words appear at the cursor. Powered by whisper.cpp running entirely on-device.

Highlights

• 🎙️ Hold Right ⌥ to transcribe (Bangla→Bangla, English→English, auto-detected)
• 🔁 Hold Right ⌥⇧ to translate Bangla speech → English text
• ⚡ ~1.5–3.5s per dictation — model preloads while you speak, stays warm between dictations
• 🪶 ~57 MB idle RAM; the speech model auto-unloads after idle (great on 8 GB Macs)
• ⌨️ Customizable hotkeys, launch at login, menu bar UI
• 🔒 No API keys, no accounts, nothing uploaded — ever

Install

Recommended (builds locally + downloads models):

git clone https://github.com/DevWizardHQ/HoldTalk.git && cd HoldTalk && ./setup.sh

Or use the attached binary (Apple Silicon):

1. Unzip, move HoldTalk.app to /Applications
2. First open: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/HoldTalk.app (self-signed, Gatekeeper)
3. Install whisper.cpp: brew install whisper-cpp
4. Launch, grant Microphone + Accessibility, download models from Settings (~1.1 GB)

Requirements

macOS 14+, Apple Silicon recommended, Homebrew (whisper-cpp).

Checksum

7de1ab90c9362a1e8212b139968575b1add2e45a34e71a83bdc55ce17820f362  HoldTalk-1.0.0-macos-arm64.zip

⚠️ checksum refers to the attached zip; verify with shasum -a 256 -c HoldTalk-1.0.0-macos-arm64.zip.sha256