VoxPill v1.2.1 — cross-platform subtitles

VoxPill 1.2.1 — macOS experience alignment

macOS Apple Silicon and Intel now use the same animation and raster renderer as
Windows: a 36 px four-bar orb, 260 ms entrance, spring expansion up to 440 px,
45 ms character reveal, accelerated recognition bars, and a 340 ms shrink/fade
exit. The Mac adapter handles Retina scale, input-window monitor placement,
native non-activation and click-through presentation. Both themes are recorded
as native-window animations during package validation.

Mac settings now record key presses/chords directly, with re-record, default,
cancel, temporary event suppression and live application of the saved binding.
Mac labels use Control/Option/Command. The menu-bar icon follows system theme;
an optional per-user start-at-login toggle is included.

Before insertion, Mac restores the original input window and focused control
through Accessibility, failing closed for invalid targets. Clipboard failure
falls back to Unicode typing. Existing offline ASR, audio guards, clipboard
options, Enter option, single-instance lock and cleanup remain in place.

Verification includes a 276-frame reference generated from the published Windows
1.1.1 animation, unit tests for capture/focus/login behavior, native ARM64/Intel
builds, rendered animations and package smoke tests. Actual third-party input
applications, physical microphone/keyboard, permission approval and multi-monitor
behavior still require hands-on Mac acceptance. CI success alone is not that acceptance.

Install the correct Mac archive into Applications. Grant Microphone and
Accessibility/Input Monitoring permissions as prompted. The app is still
unsigned/not notarized because no Apple Developer ID is configured. Linux
remains at its existing X11 subtitle feature level; this update aligns Mac.

VoxPill v1.1.1 — cross-platform subtitles

VoxPill 1.1.1 — subtitles on every supported desktop

macOS (Apple Silicon / Intel) and Linux X11 now show live transcript subtitles,
including recording status, character-by-character previews, final recognition
and automatic dismissal. Native panels stay above other windows without taking
keyboard focus or intercepting mouse clicks. Long text keeps the newest words
visible; new recordings replace older sessions without stale text flashing back.

macOS uses a non-activating AppKit panel; Linux uses Tk with X11 input and window
shapes. GUI helpers run on their own main thread in a subprocess and exit when
VoxPill exits. No new GUI framework dependency is needed.

Native package checks exercise rendering, Chinese/English text, focus retention,
click-through window settings, final display, stale sessions and auto-dismissal.
Render captures are retained as GitHub Actions artifacts. These automated checks
do not replace hands-on microphone and desktop acceptance.

Linux still requires an X11 session, PortAudio, Tk and xclip. Install a CJK font
if Chinese glyphs are absent (Ubuntu: sudo apt install fonts-noto-cjk). Native
Wayland is not supported. On macOS, grant Microphone and Accessibility permissions;
the app remains unsigned/not notarized. Keep the original input window focused
until recognition finishes on macOS/Linux.

VoxPill v1.1.0 — cross-platform preview

VoxPill 1.1.0 — cross-platform preview

Windows x64, macOS Apple Silicon / Intel, and Linux x86_64 (X11) are built on native
GitHub runners and published together after tests and package smoke checks pass.
Models are included; recognition runs offline.

• Windows retains the native transcript overlay, recorded hotkey settings and installer.
• macOS adds physical hotkey polling, Command+V insertion and a menu-bar app.
• Linux X11 adds physical hotkey polling and clipboard insertion.
• macOS/Linux store settings and logs in writable per-user directories.
• On macOS/Linux, keep the original window focused until decoding finishes;
  insertion is cancelled if focus changes. Hotkey settings accept names such as
  ctrl_r, f8, or ctrl_l+shift_l+space.

Preview limitations and setup

macOS/Linux do not yet have the Windows transcript overlay. Native Wayland is
not supported. Linux requires PortAudio, Tk, xclip and an X11 desktop; a desktop
tray with menu support is optional (otherwise run the binary in a terminal).
On Ubuntu: sudo apt install libportaudio2 python3-tk xclip.

On macOS, move VoxPill.app into Applications and allow it in Privacy & Security
under Microphone and Accessibility; Input Monitoring may also be needed.
The app is not Developer ID signed or notarized. Use Finder's Open action and
the Privacy & Security approval UI if macOS blocks first launch.

Automated tests do not establish real-microphone or target-application behavior
on all desktops. macOS/Linux remain preview quality pending hands-on acceptance.

VoxPill 1.0.3 — 自定义录音快捷键

VoxPill 1.0.3

自定义录音快捷键

• 右键点击系统托盘中的 VoxPill，选择「设置快捷键…」。
• 直接按下想绑定的单键或组合键，全部松开后点击「保存」。
• 支持重新录入、取消和恢复默认右 Ctrl；托盘显示当前快捷键。
• 保存后自动生效并记住设置，录入期间暂停触发录音。
• 安装升级保留已有的 config.toml，包括快捷键及麦克风设置。

录音仍采用按住说话、松开提交。组合键松开任意成员后结束录音；Windows 保留的安全快捷键无法录入，日常使用时所选按键仍可能触发其他软件的快捷键。

下载

• VoxPill-1.0.3-setup.exe：Windows x64 安装包，推荐现有用户直接升级。
• VoxPill-1.0.3-portable.zip：免安装版，解压后运行 VoxPill.exe。手动升级便携版时保留自己的 config.toml。
• SHA256SUMS.txt：安装包及便携包的 SHA-256 校验值。

验证

发布范围内的 59 项自动化测试通过；额外检查设置进程连续打开/关闭、打包后的设置窗口依赖及录音活动检测。

VoxPill 1.0.2

VoxPill 1.0.2

• Keep recognition on Windows HighQoS so startup-launched background sessions do not fall onto EcoQoS execution-speed throttling.
• Add per-recognition gate, decode, punctuation, and total latency diagnostics.
• Reduce long-transcript overlay fitting from a linear suffix scan to a bounded binary lookup.
• Suppress preview hallucinations and final injection when the hotkey captures only silence or steady background noise.

The ASR models, text injection behavior, hotkey, and preview cadence are unchanged.

VoxPill 1.0.1

VoxPill 1.0.1

This maintenance release keeps VoxPill responsive during long-running use.

Fixes

• Coalesce overlay animation frames with the native Windows timer instead of accumulating stale posted frames.
• Cancel preview recognition that is still waiting for the shared recognizer after push-to-talk is released.
• Preserve non-cancellable final recognition and final-over-preview priority.
• Fix Python 3.11 annotation evaluation for the ASR module.

Validation

• Windows x64 test suite: 49 tests passed.
• Clean PyInstaller/Inno Setup release build.
• Packaged executable smoke-tested with the bundled offline models.

Downloads

• VoxPill-1.0.1-setup.exe — recommended per-user Windows installer.
• VoxPill-1.0.1-portable.zip — portable Windows bundle.
• SHA256SUMS.txt — artifact integrity hashes.

Notes

• Windows x64 only.
• The application remains unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may show a warning on first launch.

VoxPill 1.0.0

VoxPill 1.0.0

The first stable Windows release of VoxPill, a CPU-only offline Chinese/English push-to-talk typing app.

Highlights

• Hold Right Ctrl to record and release it to insert the final transcript.
• Adaptive 1–2 second pseudo-streaming previews with a no-focus bottom overlay.
• One local INT8 Paraformer pipeline for preview and final recognition.
• Restores the original target window and inserts the final text exactly once.
• Per-user Windows installer with Start Menu, uninstall, and optional login startup.
• Self-contained portable ZIP; target machines do not need Python, uv, CUDA, or network access.

Downloads

• VoxPill-1.0.0-setup.exe — recommended Windows installer.
• VoxPill-1.0.0-portable.zip — unzip and run VoxPill.exe.
• SHA256SUMS.txt — artifact integrity hashes.

Notes

• Windows x64 only.
• The application is currently unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may show an unrecognized-app warning on first launch.
• Offline models account for most of the approximately 300 MiB download size.