SimpleWhisper 0.5.0

What's new

Live typing

• An editor opens in the HUD and fills with text as you speak: greyed while provisional, confirmed at each pause.
• Click anywhere to keep dictating there, select text to replace it, or edit with the keyboard; the editor grows with the text.
• Clipboard button, prompt picker always visible, Control + letter switches prompt (Control + space: plain text).
• Stop dictation to run the prompt and insert the result into the original app; Esc discards it.

Better transcripts

• Filter silence and hallucinations (on by default): Silero VAD cuts out non-speech before transcription, and phrases models invent on silence (“Thank you.”, “Dziękuję.”, “Napisy stworzone przez społeczność Amara.org”) are removed.
• Whisper retries a result that comes back empty or cut short.
• New optional Gemini API cloud engine.

HUD

• Liquid Glass background tinted with the theme colour (can be turned off).
• Nowhere to paste? The text stays in the HUD card with Copy and Close instead of a separate window.

Automatic updates

• Optional daily check for new GitHub releases, verified in-place install and restart (Settings › General › Updates), plus Check for Updates… in the menu bar. This is the first version with the updater, so the next release can install itself.

Other

• Menu bar trimmed: language and spoken punctuation switches live in Settings only; the default language set is English.
• New product-style README with screenshots and animations.

Installation

1. Unzip and move SimpleWhisper.app to /Applications.
2. The app is ad-hoc signed (not notarized). Clear the quarantine flag before the first launch:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SimpleWhisper.app
   

3. Grant Microphone, Accessibility and Input Monitoring when asked.

SHA-256: d98b887c7fa5000b10a33f80126a9305074def4403f2cb7074894034557abeea