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NowCaption 1.1.15

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v1.1.15
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Live captions for any audio on your Linux desktop, recognised entirely on your own computer. This release lets you choose how new words appear, with four new pixel effects, and adds a More options window.

Install

With automatic updates (recommended):

flatpak install --user --from https://techlm77.github.io/NowCaption/nowcaption.flatpakref

Installed that way already? flatpak update gets 1.1.15.

Or download a file below — x86_64 for most PCs, aarch64 for 64-bit ARM — then:

flatpak install --user NowCaption-1.1.15-x86_64.flatpak

Or the AppImage, for Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 and newer — no installation needed:

chmod +x NowCaption-1.1.15-x86_64.AppImage
./NowCaption-1.1.15-x86_64.AppImage

Gear Lever or AppImageUpdate can keep it up to date.

What's new in 1.1.15

  • Choose how new words appear. Right-click the captions and choose More options…. New words can appear at once, fade in (still the default), or arrive as pixels:

    • Pixel assemble flies them together from left to right.
    • Pixel dissolve switches them on bit by bit.
    • Mosaic sharpen brings them into focus from big blocks.
    • Pixel rain drops them into place.

    Each comes in a fast, normal or slow speed.

  • Quick to read. The pixels rush in and then settle, so a word is readable after about 90 ms at normal speed and 54 ms at fast. Each word lands exactly as it reads, because its pixels are cut from the text itself.

  • More options window. It shows a sample caption with your choice, so you can compare effects before pressing Apply. Closing it without Apply keeps your captions as they were.

  • A tidier menu. It now reads Appearance, Position, Transcript, then More options. Listen to (desktop audio or microphone) moved into More options.

With animations turned off for your desktop, new words still appear at once, whichever effect is chosen.

The .zip and .tar.gz below contain the source code. The speech model is unchanged and is downloaded separately from the models-v2 release; its training data and licences are listed in MODEL-LICENSES.md.

SHA-256 of the Flatpaks and AppImages:

  • NowCaption-1.1.15-x86_64.flatpak: 6326cd7f6cd70fd6c9783e30bd5b11fa55e0db41519b4d0b347faabd60a32ef4
  • NowCaption-1.1.15-aarch64.flatpak: a3fc70e2e06b82ce5f6d663adf8a6e7387224a5e278ddc761b47eb00c5c30a9e
  • NowCaption-1.1.15-x86_64.AppImage: 2904477e18181971e2b64b6f6be2efc64bf2e0780588ff3224e43e629eae025e
  • NowCaption-1.1.15-aarch64.AppImage: bfb054c97946d2fbd6ae04dad04aeeb1b2c8404e8a48e668f33eab297f2015fd
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