Phonon 0.2.2

Phonon 0.2.2 (macOS)

Hands-free dictation now works on the Option key too.

What changed

• Double-tap to keep recording, on every hold key: hold the key to talk and release to insert, or double-tap it to keep recording without holding it, then tap once to stop. This already worked on the Globe (fn) key; it now works on the Option shortcut as well, for keyboards without a Globe key. Settings shows the hint under the shortcut picker.
• Everything else is 0.2.1: streaming correction while you talk, speech recognition on Phonon's Metal kernels, and the faster drafter. Same models and weights; updating downloads nothing new.

Known issues

• Connecting or disconnecting Bluetooth headphones (for example AirPods) while Phonon is idle can crash it. Reopen Phonon; a fix is being tested.
• The Metal speech kernels are untested on base M1 and M2 chips. If they fail the startup self-test there, Phonon uses MLX as before.
• English only.

Install

brew install --cask infatoshi/phonon/phonon

or download Phonon.dmg below (signed and notarized).

License

Phonon stays GPL-3.0. The refiner weights are under the LFM Open License v1.0. Parakeet is CC-BY-4.0 (NVIDIA). The engine links llama.cpp (MIT, commit 39febd2 plus the patch in third_party/llama.cpp).