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.exeandEqho-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.