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.