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VocaMac 0.7.1 🎙️

Hold the hotkey, speak, get your words back. This patch is for when that stopped working.

If recording flashed on then died, or stayed active and produced nothing, this is for you. Most often the mic route was silent or disconnected after rapid push-to-talk or an audio-device switch. VocaMac keeps the route warm between quick recordings now. It also detects silent captures and resets cleanly when the input has gone away.

🎙️ Dictation reliability

  • Rapid push-to-talk works again. The audio engine stays warm for a short window between recordings instead of tearing down and reacquiring a route that often comes back silent. (#178, reported in #176 by @flesler)
  • Silent mic routes recover. A capture with no real mic audio resets the input so the next take can succeed. (#178, #184)
  • Clear message when there's no audio. Silence no longer goes to Whisper. VocaMac explains that no mic audio was detected and points clamshell users at an external input. (#184)
  • Headsets handle startup route changes. Brief reconfiguration when Bluetooth and other headset mics come online no longer kills the recording. (#175, reported in #174 by @yaviral17)
  • Hotkey recordings don't get stuck. Startup and shutdown recover when audio hardware is slow or changes under the app. (#173)
  • Custom Vocabulary no longer blanks the result. If Whisper returns nothing with a vocabulary prompt, VocaMac retries once without it. (#182, reported in #181 by @flesler)

✨ Polish

  • The Settings window is resizable again. (#180)

🙏 Contributors

Thanks to the people who filed the bugs and helped prove the fixes:

  • @flesler filed the silent-capture report (#176) with the gap-rate table that pointed at warm-engine reuse, opened the custom-vocab empty-transcript bug (#181), and retested the signed builds for #178 and #182.
  • @yaviral17 reported non-default mics stopping recording immediately (#174), with video and logs that led to the headset fix in #175.

📦 How to update

If you installed with Homebrew:

brew upgrade --cask vocamac

Prefer a direct download? Grab VocaMac-0.7.1-arm64.dmg from the Assets below and drag it into Applications.

You'll need macOS 13 (Ventura) or later, Apple Silicon (M1 or newer), and at least 8 GB of RAM.

Full changelog: v0.7.0...v0.7.1

Contributors

flesler and yaviral17
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