Notero 1.1.0

Install

1. Download Notero-1.1.0.zip and unpack it.
2. Move Notero.app to /Applications.
3. For the first launch, right-click Notero → Open. The app is not Developer ID signed, so macOS may block a normal double-click.
4. Notero requires macOS 15+ and Apple silicon.

On first launch, Notero downloads approximately 1.9 GB of AI model weights from Hugging Face. This is the app's only network request.

What's New

✨ Simple Mode

• Notero now has two modes, and Simple is the default. It shows your recordings, a Record button, a Transcribe a File button, the transcript and the notes.
• Advanced shows every control: model tiers, audio controls, the benchmark, decode statistics and transcript revisions. Switch with ⌥⌘A, the mode name at the bottom of the sidebar, or Settings › General › Mode.
• Drop a file on the window or the Dock icon to transcribe it. Open With › Notero and open -a Notero file.m4a work too.
• Live text is now off by default. Notero records only and makes the transcript when you stop, so no model loads at launch.
• The microphone permission is now requested at your first recording instead of on the first-run card.

🎛️ Recording Controls

• Added a menu bar item with Record, Pause, Resume, Stop and Add a Bookmark, with the recording clock in its menu.
• Added global shortcuts: ⌃⌥R starts or stops a recording and ⌃⌥P pauses or resumes it, from any app, with no accessibility permission.
• Added a Pause button (⇧⌘P). The clock, the file and the live text stop, and Resume continues on the same timeline with no gap.

✏️ Transcript Editing

• Right-click a turn and select Transcribe This Turn Again to redo only that turn. One bad window in a four-hour meeting no longer costs a second decode of the whole meeting.
• Added File › Export Corrections as References… to write your edits out as a reference set with a scoring summary.
• Double-click and right-click now act on the whole turn rather than selecting a word.

⚡ Performance

• Long transcripts open much faster. A 3909-row transcript of a 3 h 51 min meeting is on screen in under a second, and the window no longer waits for it.
• The info bar, export, search index and editor all read the transcript the same fast way.

🎯 Accuracy

• Live text now drops words the model places inside a detected pause. On the test clip the word error rate fell from 51.6% to 39.1%.
• When the room listens through speakers, a room line that repeats a call line is dropped. Remote speech is no longer transcribed twice.

🏷️ Other

• The Accurate model tier is now called Best, because its accuracy was never measured against Balanced. Your stored setting still selects it.
• Labels, messages and help text now follow ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.

Your existing recordings and notes remain unchanged when updating.