v0.10.1 — On-device voice dictation + dictation pill

🛠️ This is the working build of the 0.10 voice release. v0.10.0 failed to start once installed (a packaging bug left two main-process modules out of the bundle); v0.10.1 fixes that. If you grabbed 0.10.0, install this instead.

🎙️ DockShift can now hear you — fully on-device

This release adds local voice dictation as a headline feature. Speech-to-text now runs entirely on your machine — your audio never leaves the device, there's no cloud round-trip, and no API key is required.

✨ What's new

• On-device voice dictation. Powered by sherpa-onnx running NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 model — 25 European languages, auto-detected, running on your CPU. This is now the default speech engine for every install.

• Dictation pill — press Ctrl+Shift+Space anywhere. Hit the global hotkey, speak, and your words are transcribed on-device and auto-pasted straight into whatever app is focused — your editor, chat, browser, anything. A floating, draggable, non-activating pill shows your live mic level and status, then dismisses itself. The hotkey is rebindable, and you can switch the output between auto-paste and copy-to-clipboard in Settings → Shortcuts.

• Pick your engine on first run. The welcome flow now has a voice-engine step with at-a-glance accuracy/speed bars and a multilingual badge; your chosen model downloads quietly in the background.

• Verified model downloads. Speech models are SHA-256 verified before first use, extracted atomically, and the engine warms on demand and idles back down when unused.

🔁 Changed

• The default speech engine is now on-device Parakeet (previously the in-browser Vosk small model, which was too inaccurate to be useful).

🗑️ Removed

• The legacy Vosk engine is fully retired — provider, in-browser WASM, the vosk-model:// protocol, the vosk-browser dependency, and its CSP allowances.

🐛 Fixed

• Packaged app failing to start (ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND) — electron-builder's file allowlist is now a glob, so every main-process module ships in the bundle. Verified by launching the packaged executable.
• Upgrading no longer leaves you stuck on "Loading speech model…". Anyone carrying a saved legacy engine setting is automatically migrated to on-device Parakeet on next launch, and the old Vosk model files are cleaned up to reclaim disk.

📦 Install

• New users / clean install: download DockShift-Setup-0.10.1.exe (one-click installer).
• Portable / no install: download DockShift-0.10.1.exe and run it directly.
• Existing users: auto-update will pick this up; the first time you use voice, the ~600 MB Parakeet model downloads once in the background.

ℹ️ Windows 10/11 only. The installer is not yet code-signed, so SmartScreen may warn on first run — choose More info → Run anyway.

Full Changelog: v0.9.4...v0.10.1

[BROKEN — install v0.10.1] v0.10.0

⚠️ This release is broken — do not install it. v0.10.0 crashes on startup once installed (ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND) because two main-process modules were left out of the packaged bundle. The downloads have been removed.

👉 Install v0.10.1 instead — it ships the exact same voice-dictation features with the packaging bug fixed and the packaged executable verified to boot.

The original release notes are preserved below for the changelog record only.

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DockShift can now hear you — fully on-device voice dictation (Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 via sherpa-onnx), a Ctrl+Shift+Space dictation pill that auto-pastes into the focused app, a voice-engine picker in the welcome flow, and SHA-256-verified model downloads. The legacy Vosk engine was retired and existing users are auto-migrated to on-device Parakeet.

See v0.10.1 for the working build and full notes.

0.9.4

What's Changed

• native voice translation with vosk. by @Nyx-abu in #1

New Contributors

• @Nyx-abu made their first contribution in #1

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