v0.3.4

[0.3.4] - 2026-08-13

Changed

• Offline voice transcription now selects the fastest compatible ARM64 Whisper kernel at runtime
  instead of forcing every phone through the portable Armv8 baseline. Newer devices can use
  dot-product, FP16, i8mm, SVE, or SME kernels while older supported phones retain a safe baseline.
• Conservative content-local trimming removes only confident leading and trailing silence before
  inference. Clean greedy decoding is unchanged, while low-confidence retries are bounded to avoid
  a combinatorial latency tail without removing Whisper's accuracy fallback.
• The voice panel now uses responsive level bars with fast attack and smooth release, a pulsing mic
  halo while listening, and a rotating progress arc while the model loads or transcribes. Its copy
  explicitly identifies listening and transcription as offline/on-device.

Privacy

• Dictation remains fully offline: the speech module has no network permission, URL client, Android
  platform recognizer, runtime model downloader, telemetry, or cloud fallback. Raw audio remains in
  the isolated speech process and is wiped after each decode.

Verification

• JVM tests cover silence trimming, level dynamics, bounded decode configuration, runtime ARM64
  backend selection, and the offline-only speech boundary. The full release gate, packaged native
  fixture, clean-export reproduction, and hosted APK checks were run for the tagged update.
• No physical Android device was connected. The ARM64 dispatch and real microphone/animation feel
  are structurally verified but not newly measured on phone hardware.