Open Mic AI 3.11.1 Preview

General settings now use the same clean switch rows as Taskbar, and Install plugin uses the red primary-button style.

• Windows General switches save immediately, with no separate Save button.
• Existing shortcut, models and other preferences are preserved.
• Mac General settings use matching switch rows; the plugin install button is prominent red.

Validated with the settings fixture and visual previews. Mac packages remain development-signed previews; real-device microphone and third-party app paste testing remains.

Open Mic AI 3.11.0 Preview

Stats is now a dedicated page below History, with local usage insights and personal milestones.

• Filter by 7, 30 or 90 days, or All time. Explore words, dictations, speaking speed, estimated time saved, AI input/output/total tokens, daily trends, app and style usage, weekdays and hours.
• See streaks, best days, longest and fastest eligible dictations, milestones and estimated pages spoken. Adjust the typing speed used for time saved.
• Nested Settings tabs use a quieter underline. Stream Deck has a clean integration row with Install plugin on the right.
• Windows has a separate Access → Taskbar page for live words, recording indicators, hover controls and customizable right-click app shortcuts. The tray menu follows the same switches, and a single click on either icon opens the app.
• Statistics retain counts independently of the 200-result history limit. Windows preserves existing usage; new breakdowns start with this update. Mac seeds older word totals from available saved history and labels that limitation.

Windows validation includes aggregate migration/calculation/privacy fixtures, native Jump List and command dispatch, taskbar controls, shortcut input and existing app regressions. Screenshots use synthetic data. The full live-desktop regression did not complete while other applications were active; focus-sensitive checks remain a limitation of this run.

Mac builds remain previews with development signatures. Real-device microphone, permissions and third-party app paste testing remains.

Open Mic AI 3.10.0 Preview

Settings now group related tools together, with a cleaner dictation-bar page and programmable mouse shortcuts.

• Writing: Style, Snippets, Vocabulary.
• Access: Shortcuts, Dictation bar.
• System: General, Models.
• Integrations: Stream Deck.
• Keep Home, History, and Settings in the sidebar. Writing libraries open as nested Settings pages.
• Choose bar layouts using visual previews and simple switches.
• Record a shortcut with keyboard keys, middle-click, or a side mouse button. Choosing a mouse button selects Hold to talk: hold to dictate, release to insert text. Save the shortcut to apply it on Windows.
• Capture mouse buttons even when the pointer is away from the picker. Choosing a shortcut consumes the mouse click without starting dictation or triggering its normal action.
• Cancel capture when changing pages, leaving the picker, or pressing Escape.
• Preserve saved models, shortcuts, text history and preferences.

Windows checks cover native mouse packets, both side buttons, middle-click, hold/release callbacks, the four Settings groups, layout controls, automatic paste, selected-text editing, formatting, media imports and Stream Deck. Screenshots use synthetic data. Mac builds include mouse-state and preference-migration tests; real-device mouse permissions, microphone and paste testing remain necessary for the Mac preview.

Models are downloaded separately in Settings → System → Models. Existing downloads are kept. Package hashes are in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Open Mic AI 3.9.0 Preview

Settings are easier to navigate, with dedicated Integrations and Dictation bar tabs.

• Move Stream Deck installation to Settings → Integrations.
• Show the idle dictation bar and choose Horizontal or Vertical. Changes save immediately; recording and AI cards expand to keep text readable.
• Add an optional Windows taskbar control, off by default. Its hover preview shows recognized words, recording / AI status, and Dictate / Stop, Copy recent, and Open app buttons.
• Keep the original text box focused for automatic paste. Taskbar Dictate uses click to start / stop.
• Preserve existing shortcuts, model choices, history and visibility settings during the update.
• Include updated screenshots and a dictation bar guide.

Windows regression checks cover the settings, both bar layouts, selected-text and paste flow, formatting, imports and Stream Deck. Native Explorer checks cover button registration and focus preservation; taskbar screenshots show synthetic app-provided preview content. Apple Silicon and Intel Mac builds include layout and preference-migration tests. The Mac app remains a preview requiring real-device microphone and accessibility testing.

Models download separately in Settings → Models. Existing models do not need to be downloaded again. See SHA256SUMS.txt for package hashes.

Open Mic AI 3.8.1 Preview — Stream Deck install repair

Fixes the Windows Stream Deck install button appearing to do nothing. Some Stream Deck versions silently ignore the installer file-open request.

Settings → System → Stream Deck → Install plugin now installs the bundled files directly, briefly restarts Stream Deck, and waits for a live plugin connection before reporting connected. Progress and failures stay inside the app. Existing profiles and key assignments are kept; developer mode is not required.

The plugin now maintains its local connection before any key is assigned. Version 1.0.1 includes Dictate, Hold to talk, Copy recent, Open app and Cancel.

Verified with the actual Stream Deck 7.5 host: plugin files installed, SDK session connected, and authenticated heartbeat received by the installed Open Mic AI app. Installer/update, package-path safety and existing offline tests pass. Physical microphone/paste behavior was not retested for this repair.

Windows portable: replace the executable beside your existing OpenMicAI-data folder. Models, preferences and history remain there. Mac packages include the updated plugin; the Mac installer still uses Stream Deck's confirmation.

Stream Deck setup guide

Open Mic AI 3.8 Preview — Stream Deck

Install Open Mic AI's Stream Deck plugin directly from Settings → System → Stream Deck → Install plugin. Confirm in Stream Deck and drag an Open Mic AI action onto a key.

• Dictate: press to start, press again to finish and paste.
• Hold to talk: release to finish and paste.
• Copy recent, Open app, and Cancel.
• Live Stop, Release and Working status on the voice keys.
• Selected text accepts the same spoken rewrite, translate and summarize instructions.
• Automatic local connection, independent of your keyboard shortcut. No pairing code, API key or separate Node.js installation.

Requires Stream Deck 7.1 or later. Keep Open Mic AI running with models loaded for fast access. The installer is bundled in the app and also attached separately below.

Windows portable: replace the executable beside your existing OpenMicAI-data folder to keep models, settings and history. Models download separately in Settings.

Mac remains an unsigned preview. Choose Apple Silicon (arm64) or Intel (x86_64).

Verified: Elgato package validation, real SDK events through simulated Stream Deck/app connections, quick hold-release, all commands and key status updates; 14 native Windows bridge checks plus existing offline checks; native Mac bridge authentication/shutdown checks; and installed Windows app/model readiness. Physical Stream Deck microphone/paste behavior is not claimed as tested.

Stream Deck setup guide

Open Mic AI 3.7.4 Preview

The floating bar now uses gentle hover feedback: a pale rose tint and fine border on Dictate, Copy recent and the Open app logo. Dictate keeps black text and has a slightly deeper tint when pressed.

Windows portable: replace the executable beside your existing OpenMicAI-data folder to keep models, settings and history. Models download separately in Settings.

Mac remains an unsigned preview. Choose Apple Silicon (arm64) or Intel (x86_64).

Verified: Windows idle, hover and pressed previews; independent button actions; installed-app reopening and local model readiness; and native Windows, Apple Silicon and Intel CI builds and tests. Real-device microphone and paste testing on Mac remains.

Open Mic AI 3.7.3 Preview

Dictate now blends into the floating bar: white with black text and microphone at rest, turning red with white text on hover. Pressing gives a darker red response.

The standard copy icon, app logo button and automatic paste behavior remain.

Windows portable: replace the executable beside your existing OpenMicAI-data folder to keep models, settings and history. Models download separately in Settings.

Mac remains an unsigned preview. Choose Apple Silicon (arm64) or Intel (x86_64).

Verified: Windows idle/hover/pressed previews and independent button actions, installed-app reopening and local model readiness, plus native Windows, Apple Silicon and Intel CI builds and tests. Real-device microphone and paste testing on Mac remains.

Open Mic AI 3.7.2 Preview

The floating bar has a rounded red Dictate button, a standard overlapping-pages copy icon, and the Open Mic AI microphone logo to open the app.

• Dictate responds visually to hover and press on Windows, with pressed feedback on Mac.
• Copy recent transcription and Open app keep their separate actions.
• Dictation still pastes automatically and returns to the compact bar.

Windows portable: replace the executable beside your existing OpenMicAI-data folder to keep models, settings and history. Models download separately in Settings.

Mac remains an unsigned preview. Download the zip for Apple Silicon (arm64) or Intel (x86_64).

Verified: isolated Windows bar render/click checks, installed-app reopening and local model readiness, plus native Windows, Apple Silicon and Intel CI builds and tests. Real-device microphone and paste testing on Mac remains.

Open Mic AI 3.7.1 preview — compact bar and automatic paste

Dictation now pastes automatically and returns to a smaller floating bar, without leaving a Copy card after a successful paste.

• Compact 204 × 38 Windows bar: Dictate, a Copy recent icon, an Open app icon and Hide.
• Copy recent retrieves the latest text without starting recording, including in hold-to-talk mode and with history saving disabled.
• Translation, summary and failed-paste results keep their result cards.
• More tolerant Windows focus checks: stable native editor handles, bounded settling after accessibility updates, and matching editor identity/bounds when a provider rebuilds its object. Switching fields still prevents automatic paste.
• Mac preview gets the compact icon bar and returns to it after successful paste.

Validation: 177 native Windows interface checks and 96 offline checks, covering automatic paste, clipboard preservation, recent copy, selected-text actions, focus changes and recording modes. Accessibility identity refresh is simulated in fixtures; this is not exhaustive testing of every browser/editor.

The Windows update preserves the existing model downloads, preferences and desktop shortcut. Model weights download separately in Settings.

macOS remains a preview requiring real-device microphone and third-party accessibility testing. Mac apps have a development signature and are not notarized.