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@db-ol db-ol released this 16 Oct 22:42
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Meeting Interpretation for meetings across languages, a guide in the welcome window, and a second talk key.

  • Meeting Interpretation is new in Settings, General and in the Orra menu. Live Captions shows what the Mac plays, such as a call, as translated captions in a floating window. The first words show about a second after someone starts talking, and the translation follows when the sentence ends. Captions show picks the translation only, or the original and the translation.
  • Live Captions listens to the sound the Mac plays, never the microphone. macOS asks once to allow Orra under Screen & System Audio Recording. Live Captions is off at every launch, and captions stay in memory only. It translates with the same local model as the translation key, and shows what was said until that model is on your Mac. While you dictate, captions wait and catch up after.
  • Speak Translations to Others needs Translation on. With both on, Orra also speaks what the translation key translated, with a voice model on your Mac (Qwen3-TTS, a 1.99 GB download), into an output device. Choose Orra Microphone as the microphone in the call app, and the other side hears your words in their language. By default the translated text is pasted too. Stop Speaking in the menu stops it.
  • To have it speak in your voice, click Record… next to Voice sample and read a short script aloud, about 10 seconds. With a voice sample, each sentence is checked before it plays, so it starts a moment later. Orra keeps the sample in memory until it quits. Remember my voice, off until you turn it on, saves the sample's audio, never the words, on this Mac until you remove it. Use only your own voice, and tell the other side they hear a synthesized voice.
  • Orra Microphone is a separate audio driver, not part of Orra.dmg. Download OrraMicrophone.pkg, signed and notarized, and open it to install. Installer asks for an administrator password, and every app's sound stops for a moment while it installs. Drivers/OrraMicrophone explains how to remove it or build it yourself. Without it, pick another device under Speak into, such as a loopback device a call app can use as its microphone. Orra never speaks into the speakers on its own.
  • The welcome window has a small guide that says what to do next. For a new user on a Mac with 16 GB of memory or more, Download Models (5.52 GB) fetches the speech model and then the cleanup model behind one bar, and turns cleanup on. You can dictate as soon as the speech model is in place. On a smaller Mac it downloads the speech model only. A cleanup choice you saved never changes.
  • When the welcome window opens System Settings for a permission, a small card beside it shows where to turn Orra on. Once Orra is ready, Try next suggests cleanup, translation and Meeting Interpretation.
  • Second key, under Keys in Settings, adds one more single key that works like the talk key, such as right Control as well as fn. That helps with external keyboards that never send fn. With fn as the talk key, Orra offers it once when an external keyboard is connected.
  • A translation is no longer held back when you say a number digit by digit, such as the year 二零零二年 or a phone number, or say 零 inside a number, such as 两千零二 for 2002.

跨语言开会可以用“会议同传”了,欢迎窗口里有了小向导,还可以再加一个说话键。

  • 设置的“通用”和 Orra 菜单里新增了“会议同传”。“实时字幕”把 Mac 播放的声音(比如通话)译成字幕,显示在浮动窗口里。有人开始说话大约一秒后,开头的几个词就会出现,一句话说完后译文随之出现。“字幕显示”可以选“只显示译文”或“原文和译文逐句对照”。
  • 实时字幕只收听 Mac 播放的声音,从不使用麦克风。macOS 会询问一次是否允许 Orra,这项权限在“录屏与系统录音”里。每次启动 Orra 时实时字幕都是关闭的,字幕只保存在内存中。翻译用的是和翻译键相同的本地模型,模型下载好之前,字幕只显示原话。你听写时字幕会先等待,之后再补上。
  • “为对方朗读译文”需要先打开“翻译”。打开“为对方朗读译文”后,翻译键译好的内容还会由你 Mac 上的语音合成模型(Qwen3-TTS,下载 1.99 GB)读出来,送到一个输出设备。在通话 App 里把 Orra Microphone 选作麦克风,对方就能听到你说的话的译文。默认也会粘贴译文。菜单里的“停止朗读”可以让它停下。
  • 想让它用你的音色说话,可以点按“声音样本”旁的“录音…”,读出一段约 10 秒的短文。用声音样本时,每句话播放前都会先核对,所以会稍晚开始。样本只保存在内存中,退出 Orra 即清除。打开“记住我的音色”(默认关闭)后,Orra 会把样本的音频保存在这台 Mac 上,直到你移除,从不保存样本里说的话。请只用你自己的声音,并告诉对方他们听到的是合成的声音。
  • Orra Microphone 是一个单独的音频驱动,不在 Orra.dmg 里。下载已签名并经过公证的 OrraMicrophone.pkg,打开即可安装。安装器会要求输入管理员密码,安装时所有 App 的声音会中断片刻。Drivers/OrraMicrophone(英文)说明了如何移除它,或者自己构建。没有它时,可以在“输出到”里选别的设备,比如通话 App 能当作麦克风使用的回环设备。Orra 从不会自己把声音送到扬声器。
  • 欢迎窗口里有个小向导,会告诉你下一步做什么。新用户在内存 16 GB 及以上的 Mac 上点按“下载模型(5.52 GB)”,会先下载语音模型,再下载整理模型,共用一个进度条,并打开整理功能。语音模型装好后就可以听写。内存更小的 Mac 上只下载语音模型。你保存过的整理设置不会改变。
  • 欢迎窗口为某项权限打开系统设置时,旁边会出现一张小卡片,告诉你在哪里打开 Orra。Orra 准备就绪后,“还可以试试”会推荐整理、翻译和会议同传。
  • 设置的“按键”里新增了“第二个键”,可以再加一个单独的键,用法和说话键相同,比如在 fn 键之外加上右侧 Control 键。换用 fn 键传不到 Mac 的外接键盘时,这样很方便。说话键是 fn 键时,接上外接键盘后 Orra 会提示添加一次。
  • 逐位说出的数字(比如年份“二零零二年”或电话号码),以及中间带“零”的数字(比如“两千零二”,即 2002),译文不会再被拦下。