Kōrero v1.41.0 — meetings that keep working, and New Zealand English on by default

Kia ora! This is the first public release since 1.28.0, so it rolls up everything from 1.29 to 1.41.

New in 1.41.0

• Meetings keep working when you leave the tab. Stopping a meeting, re-transcribing, importing, recovering a recording and generating notes now all carry on in the background. The spinner and progress are still there when you come back, and nothing you come back to can overwrite a finished result.
• Kōrero tells you when a recording isn't hearing anything. If your microphone picks up nothing for two minutes, or almost no sound is coming from your computer's audio output, you get a warning during the meeting while there's still time to fix it, not an empty transcript afterwards.
• Missed speech is rebuilt from the recording. If live transcription falls behind or hits an error, Stop now rebuilds that speaker from the saved audio.
• Clearer failures. Re-transcribe reports the real error and keeps your existing transcript. It no longer replaces it with nothing.
• Honest notes. Notes for a very long meeting say what share of the transcript they cover, and notes cut short by the model's length limit say so.
• New Zealand English is on by default. Macrons, NZ place names and NZ spelling now apply out of the box. If you had plain "English" selected, it switches to New Zealand English once. Turn it off in Settings → General if you prefer, and it will stay off.
• A word split by the speech engine ("W Nau") no longer comes out in capitals ("WHĀNAU").

Also since 1.28.0

• Meetings: stronger protection against losing meeting data; importing .m4a recordings from phones and Teams now works (ALAC audio).
• Te reo Māori: macron restoration no longer turns a singular into a plural; there's a new "Tidy te reo" action; and the macron lexicon now comes from a single source.
• Dictation: spoken formatting cues such as lists are now applied the same way every time, instead of depending on the AI model.
• Look and feel: a new app icon (a K with a macron), a quieter design, a recording overlay that's no longer cut off, one date format across the app, and a model list that shows only the models you have installed.

Installing

Download Korero_1.41.0_x64-setup.exe below, or let Kōrero update itself. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you: choose More info → Run anyway. Your settings, meetings and recordings are kept.