wispr-fox v2.1.0-nightly.10

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wispr-fox v2.1.0-nightly.10

Your mic gets a health-check — starting with the onboarding demo.

The "it ate my first sentence" detector

On some Windows machines the microphone takes 3–8 seconds to actually wake
up after you press the dictation key. You start talking immediately; the
audio only starts flowing seconds later; your first words are simply gone.
Nothing in the app could see this before — the recording timer starts late
too, so everything looked fine.

The app now measures mic wake-up time on every recording: the gap
between your key going down and the first real audio arriving.

• In the onboarding demo, the try-it step now doubles as a mic
  health-check. After your first recording you'll see a verdict: a green
  "instant handover" chip when things are healthy, or a clear warning with
  the exact settings to fix when they're not — on Windows that's almost
  always the mic's audio enhancements and "allow applications to take
  exclusive control" toggles. Change them, press the key again, watch the
  number drop.
• In normal use, if your mic is pathologically slow to wake (over
  ~2.5s), the floater tells you once per session — with the same fix —
  instead of letting you lose the start of every dictation forever.
• In the (i) panel, every recording's timeline now includes its
  "mic wake-up" number, alongside the recorded / captured / provider
  triangulation from nightly.8. Between the two, a truncated transcript
  now tells you where the audio went missing: the head (slow wake-up —
  fix your mic settings), the middle/tail (mic dropped — often Bluetooth),
  or in transit (provider saw less than was captured).

Nightly build. If a recording ever comes back clipped, open its (i) —
the numbers will point at the culprit.

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Built from commit 41d7f89.
Provenance: built by GitHub Actions from the tagged commit. See the release notes header for which agent authored the change set.

Pick your installer:

• Windows: wispr-fox_*_x64-setup.exe (recommended) or *_x64_en-US.msi
• macOS Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4): wispr-fox_*_aarch64.dmg
• Linux: *.AppImage (portable) or *.deb (Ubuntu/Debian)

First-time install — please read

Windows. Run the .exe, click through SmartScreen ("More info" → "Run anyway") on first launch since the binary isn't code-signed yet.

macOS. The build isn't notarized. One of two things will happen on first launch:

• "developer cannot be verified" dialog: Cancel → right-click the app in Applications → Open → click Open in the new dialog.
• "App is damaged" dialog: open Terminal and run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/wispr-fox.app, then double-click normally.

Then grant two permissions when prompted:

1. Microphone (first time you press F8) — required
2. Accessibility (first time it tries to paste) — required for fast text injection; if you skip it, the app falls back to clipboard+Cmd+V which still works but is slower

Full install walkthrough in the README.

Linux. AppImage is portable — chmod +x and run. Untested by maintainer; report issues.