v1.0.5

Highlights

• Lightning-fast Parakeet Engine: Added NVIDIA Parakeet (TDT 0.6b v3) as a second offline engine. It runs as a resident background server, dropping recognition latency from ~12s to under 1 second.
• Silero VAD Integration: Replaced the old energy gate with a proper neural Voice Activity Detection. This effectively eliminates "silence hallucinations" where background noise was transcribed as random text.
• Signed Auto-updater: Releases are now cryptographically signed, and Aura can automatically check for and install updates in-app.
• Whisper Large v3 Turbo: Added support for downloading the latest high-accuracy Turbo models for local dictation.
• Cloud-to-Local Fallback: If your cloud provider is unreachable (e.g., VPN blocks), Aura will automatically fall back to your downloaded local model and transcribe the audio anyway.

Fixes & Improvements

• Model downloads can now be cancelled mid-progress.
• Local Whisper now properly utilizes all CPU cores for much faster transcription.
• Fixed an issue where the Parakeet server binaries were missing from the production installer.
• Clearer network error states for 403 blocks.