Eqho v0.8.8

The first release since 0.8.2 — the overlay grows up, and the dashboard is rebuilt.

Highlights

• A living dictation overlay. The old dot‑and‑bar is gone. Dictation now shows a breathing iridescent glass pill that genuinely rides your voice — syllable‑rate motion while you talk, resting when you pause — with a live panel that fills upward line by line as your words arrive. On‑brand blue, brighter in the light theme, and more compact. (0.8.3–0.8.6)
• All 99 Whisper languages, honestly tiered. 13 hand‑tuned and dictation‑grade, 20 with strong published accuracy, and 66 experimental — grouped in the picker and never oversold. A guard warns when you pick a non‑English language while an English‑only model is loaded. (0.8.7)
• The dashboard, restructured. A top pill navigation — General · Models · History — with a one‑click sun/moon theme toggle and a Settings gear, replacing the sidebar. Each section now answers one question: General is how you dictate, Models is what does the transcribing, Settings is everything else. A shared responsive grid lines up every page, and History gained a date filter. (0.8.8)

Also

• Windows downloads now name their platform: Eqho-Setup-0.8.8-win-x64.exe and Eqho-portable-0.8.8-win-x64.zip.
• Rebuilt product website with an up‑to‑date changelog.

100% local — GPU‑accelerated on NVIDIA (faster‑whisper / CUDA) and AMD/Intel (whisper.cpp / Vulkan). Windows · Linux · macOS.

Binaries are unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen / macOS Gatekeeper may warn on first run. Full details in CHANGELOG.md.

Eqho 0.8.6 - the pill era

The pill era 🔵

The dictation overlay is redesigned end-to-end, and Eqho has a brand-new website.

The listening pill

The old dot-and-bar overlay is gone. While you dictate you now get a living glass pill — flowing blue ribbons that genuinely ride your voice: they punch on every word, keep their energy while you speak, and settle when you pause. Deep blues in the dark theme, frosted pearl with a white border in the light theme (translucent, with the same shine). Rendered in real time, ~12 ms/frame, no extra dependencies.

Words fill upward as you speak

Your live transcription now lands in a rounded panel that grows upward from the pill, line by line — you always see the newest words.

A website that speaks human

The new landing page explains Eqho in plain language, shows the pill in both themes, and links every download below with OS-aware buttons. The technical deep-dive moved to the README ("Under the hood").

Details

• Pill reacts via a temporal-contrast envelope over the mic level (syllable punches + sustained-voice floor) and the ribbons speed up with your voice
• Brand-blue palette anchored on the app accent (#58a6ff); light theme made vibrant instead of washed-out
• Fixed: light-pill top-edge flicker (theme-matched transparency key); clean teardown at app exit
• Overlay public API unchanged; position/opacity/font settings honored
• Full details in CHANGELOG.md (0.8.3 → 0.8.6)

Downloads below are built by CI from this tag: Windows installer + portable, Linux AppImage + tar.gz, macOS dmg. Unsigned builds show a security prompt on first run — see platform notes.

v0.8.2

Eqho 0.8.2 — dual-engine + cross-vendor GPU (whisper.cpp/Vulkan, incl…

v0.6.9

Merge branch 'main' of https://github.com/danielmevit/eqho

v0.6.3

fix(ui): review round 3 — real italic fix (SemiBold binding), in-plac…