Handy Tool 2.2.0 - Steady Mic

Handy Tool 2.2.0 "Steady Mic"

Recording you can rely on: no false "Starting mic...", short takes transcribed while you speak, FLM (NPU) for files and folders, and every take kept even when transcription fails.

Fixed

• No more false "Starting mic..." — after a driver update a microphone can take longer to open, and every take then counted as a "cold start"; the quiet pause before your first word was measured as the microphone "warming up". The warm-up is now measured against the room's noise floor, kept per microphone, and the pill waits only after five measured cold starts of that microphone (the shortest fade-in measured). Your words were always recorded; now the pill says so too.
• FLM (NPU) shows how far the transcription is ("Transcribing N%"), from the second take on.
• FLM for files and watched folders — pick FLM Whisper on the Files page; it runs on the NPU beside your dictation model. A watched folder on FLM no longer pushes your dictation model out. Online models (API, OpenRouter) are listed but greyed: they work for files only while they are your dictation model.
• A take whose transcription fails is always kept, with its recording and a History row, however short.

Added

• Transcribe a recording again from History — new button beside Copy; for a take recorded without a model or one whose transcription failed.

Changed

• Short takes are transcribed while you speak — after 10 s of speech a clear pause (~0.7 s) sends what you said so far; after 20 s any pause does; 45 s is cut anyway.
• The text arrives up to 80 ms sooner after the last piece, and the pill goes away sooner.

Full list: CHANGELOG.md