Utter 0.5.0 (beta)

Beta. A new look, and a calmer one.

New interface

• Quiet in light, Graphite in dark, following your Mac. The system font, one big value per card, and colour only when something needs you: red only when dictation can't happen.
• A sidebar window. Try it, Words, then Settings (Hotkey, Speech model, Cleanup, Permissions), and a status card that always says whether Utter is ready. If it isn't, it names the one problem and opens the fix.
• A new mark: voice bars trailing into a text cursor.
• First run has a picture for each step.

New things

• Fix Last Word… in the menu bar opens your last dictation ready to correct. In Try it you can now drag across words to fix a few at once.
• Removed words stay under Words for 30 days, with what they were heard as, so you can restore them.
• Language for the Large model: detect automatically, or tell it what you speak.
• Stop a speech model download.
• About, with the version and an update check. It only asks GitHub when you press Check for updates, or once a day if you switch on Check automatically (off by default).
• The menu bar shows Utter's status and offers the fix. Its icon moves while Utter listens or works, and shows a dot when it needs you.

Fixed

• Quitting Utter no longer shows "Utter quit unexpectedly".

Signed and notarised. Apple silicon, macOS 12 or later.