Hlas 0.4.2

Hlas 0.4.2 adds automatic Smart text and improves everyday dictation reliability.

• Transcript / Smart text: keep a direct transcription or let Hlas clean up your words and choose the right structure. Messages stay prose; real lists and procedures are formatted accordingly. No style picker.
• Automatic paste: text lands at the current caret, including in editors without an exposed Accessibility text field. Your previous clipboard is restored.
• Faster, lighter recording: microphone lifecycle runs outside the UI thread, waveform updates are throttled, local models can preload during speech and unload under memory pressure.
• Cancel and recover: interrupt local transcription, retain original text and reprocess a previous dictation.
• More control: exact text replacements, optional history and expiration, and audio file import up to 10 minutes.

Smart text uses your own OpenAI or Groq key and sends transcript text to that provider, including with Local speech recognition. Transcript mode skips the editing request.

Download and update

Download Hlas-0.4.2-arm64.dmg below. Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 15 or later.

Quit Hlas, open the DMG and replace Hlas.app in Applications. Existing settings, keys and history are retained. Existing installations do not update automatically.

This build uses the same Apple Development signing identity as previous releases and is not notarized. First-time installations may need System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway.

The SHA-256 checksum is included as a separate asset. See verification and release details.

Hlas 0.3.1

Hold Fn, speak Czech or English, release — text lands at your cursor.

Fixes

• The recording pill now stays on the Space you are actually on. .stationary conflicted with .canJoinAllSpaces and could pin the pill to the Space where it was first created, so it turned up on a neighbouring desktop. The collection behavior is re-asserted on every show. Verified across three Spaces and over a fullscreen app.
• The pill's drop shadow is no longer clipped. The panel was 260×44 around a 40pt capsule, leaving 2pt of headroom, so the shadow survived left and right but was sheared off top and bottom.
• Licensed Konect typeface. The personal-use demo was replaced with the purchased commercial cut, so digits and punctuation are now safe in display text.

Install

1. Open the DMG, drag Hlas onto Applications.
2. macOS will block the first launch. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, click Open Anyway.
3. Grant Microphone and Accessibility when asked.
4. Hold Fn, speak, release.

Why does macOS warn about it?

Hlas isn't notarized by Apple — notarization requires a paid Apple Developer Program membership. The app is signed with a stable Apple Development certificate, so your Accessibility and Microphone grants survive updates. All source is in this repo; you can build it yourself with make install.

Terminal shortcut instead of the Settings pane:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Hlas.app

Requires an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 15 or later.

Hlas 0.3.0

Ultra-minimal dictation for Apple Silicon Macs. Hold Fn, speak Czech or English, release — text lands at your cursor.

Install

1. Open the DMG, drag Hlas onto Applications.
2. macOS will block the first launch. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, click Open Anyway.
3. Grant Microphone and Accessibility when asked.
4. Hold Fn, speak, release.

Why does macOS warn about it?

Hlas isn't notarized by Apple — notarization requires a paid Apple Developer Program membership. The app is signed with a stable Apple Development certificate, so your Accessibility and Microphone grants survive updates. All source is in this repo; you can build it yourself with make install.

Terminal shortcut instead of the Settings pane:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Hlas.app

What's in it

• Local engine — whisper.cpp large-v3-turbo-q5_0 on Metal. 547 MB one-time model download, auto-unloads after 3 min idle. Audio never leaves the Mac.
• Cloud engines (BYOK) — Groq whisper-large-v3-turbo ($0.04/hr) or OpenAI gpt-transcribe ($0.27/hr). Keys stored in macOS Keychain.
• Hold Fn to push-to-talk, quick-tap Fn to latch hands-free.
• Custom vocabulary, searchable local history, Bluetooth-safe mic pinning.

Requires an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 15 or later.