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hearsay v0.2.0 — Linux & Windows, the race, mixed languages

hearsay now runs on all three desktops. hearsay.app is the Mac app; hearsay-rs is the Rust port with
the same concepts, the same data files and the same bake-off lab.

New

  • hearsay-rs for Linux and Windows: hold Ctrl+Alt+Space, speak, release. whisper.cpp on-device (base.en
    or large-v3-turbo, downloaded from the Dictation pane with progress). Wayland sessions supported: the
    chord is read from the keyboard devices, the text goes to the clipboard.
  • Engines: ElevenLabs Scribe v2, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live (streaming, partials in the pill on every
    platform), Gemini 3.7 Flash via OpenRouter. Mixed-language dictation (svengelska) works on all three.
  • API keys are found automatically (environment, keys.env, shell profile) and can be pasted in the app.
  • The bake-off is a race: one take feeds every ticked engine, a leaderboard by WER and latency, each
    engine's record against the rival, failures counted. Ten-sentence script with Swedish, svengelska and
    Portuguese. Both apps.
  • Every engine receives dictionary terms as vocabulary hints.
  • Overlay: good news is a glance (700 ms, fading), warnings stay readable.

Known limits on Linux/Windows (deliberate, see PLAN-CROSSPLATFORM.md)

  • Local whisper is batch: no live partials (Gemini 3.5 Transcribe streams).
  • Paste-only insertion; no field context, per-app tone or secure-field detection.
  • Cleanup (Light/Full) uses OpenRouter, opt-in. Off is fully local.
  • Prebuilt binaries run whisper on the CPU; GPU back ends are build-from-source features.

Verified: macOS build and bake-off tests; Linux x86_64, Windows x86_64 and macOS built and tested by
GitHub Actions, Linux window smoke-tested under Xvfb; Windows with whisper compiled on MSVC.

Assets: hearsay-0.2.0.zip (macOS app, local certificate — right-click → Open), hearsay-rs-linux-x86_64.zip,
hearsay-rs-windows-x86_64.zip, hearsay-rs-macos-arm64.zip (the Rust app on a Mac, for comparison runs).

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