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@TirupMehta TirupMehta released this 27 Oct 14:37
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Draft 0.2.1

Private, on-device dictation for Windows. Hold Right Ctrl, speak naturally,
and release - the transcript appears at your cursor.

Download

  • Draft-Setup-0.2.1.exe - Windows 10/11 x64 with AVX2, per-user install
    under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Draft; no administrator prompt.
  • The F16 Whisper large-v3-turbo model is bundled in this installer. No
    separate model download is needed.
  • SHA-256: d0aff26862f88f38b67ff1e1be628817145827bd10fa3d3199e3dc377d7b42c9
    (also attached as Draft-Setup-0.2.1.exe.sha256).

In this release

  • A rebuilt recording HUD. One compact strip shows the real input level,
    the elapsed time, and Esc to cancel. It floats above other windows and
    never takes the cursor.
  • A direct uninstall. The Start menu now has a Draft folder with
    Draft and Uninstall Draft, so removal no longer requires Settings.
  • Uninstall keeps your data. It removes the app, its shortcuts, and its
    license texts. Settings, history, logs, and the model stay in
    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Draft4, and the confirmation says so.
  • A cleaner upgrade. The installer clears the old top-level Start-menu
    shortcut and any stale draft.prev.exe from earlier builds.

Everything from 0.2.0 is unchanged: local Vulkan inference with the model kept
warm, the fixed 680x500 window, light and dark themes, six dictation shortcuts,
a microphone check, tray actions, launch at sign-in, and bounded local history.

Install

  1. Download and run Draft-Setup-0.2.1.exe.
  2. Windows SmartScreen may warn because this installer is not code-signed
    yet    . Choose More info -> Run anyway if you trust the download, or
    verify the SHA-256 above.
  3. Launch Draft, hold Right Ctrl, speak, and release.

Upgrading from 0.2.0: run the installer over the existing install. Settings and
history stay in place.

Good to know

Draft 0.2.1 is an early Windows x64 release and needs an AVX2 processor
(Haswell, 2013, or newer); every Windows 11 machine qualifies. An Apple Silicon
macOS preview is available separately as v0.2.0-macos.1; it is ad-hoc signed,
not notarized, and has not been run on a physical Mac. Linux is not supported.
Real-speech WER parity with the previous generation is still being measured, so
no accuracy claim is made ahead of it. The History pane is not built; the
bounded store and draftctl history exist. Updates are manual.

The model is distributed with Draft and is subject to its own terms. Full
credits and third-party notices are in the repository:
CREDITS.md and
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
The project license is MIT.

Read the README for the full
feature list, the privacy model, and the measured performance numbers.

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