Buddy 1.5

Gets technical words right

With a Deepgram key, Deepgram now hears your questions as well as speaking the answers. The same questions, on the same microphone:

You said	The Mac's recognizer heard	Buddy 1.5 hears
Kafka	Kakkar	Kafka
idempotent	Eden potent	idempotent
Postgres	posters	Postgres

Before you speak, Buddy tells it which words to expect: the labels on your screen, the terms on cards it just drew, and the ideas you have been learning. About a third of a cent per question, shown in Spent today.

Tip

No Deepgram key? Nothing changes: the Mac's own recognizer hears you as before. With a key, it still listens alongside, in case the connection drops.

Take your time

	Before	Now
Pause to think mid-question	Only the words after the pause arrived	The whole question arrives
Let go too early, press again	Two separate questions	Joined into one, if the answer has not started

Long sessions stay in view

	Before	Now
Questions kept in view	10	40
Older answers	Forgotten	What was said is kept

Recent answers are kept with their drawings; older ones keep what was said, so long sessions stay cheap.

Also in this release

Area	What changed
Fixed	Buddy could stop responding when the microphone changed, for example AirPods connecting. It now keeps listening.
Spent today	Counts answers you cut off, and keeps the last cents of the day when Buddy quits.
Mishearings	When a word is still misheard, Buddy answers what you meant.
Chat	Long folded answers no longer draw over the messages below.

Updating

You have	Do this
Buddy 1.2 or later	Click Update when the notch offers it
Buddy 1.0 or 1.1	Download, drag onto Applications, choose Replace
Homebrew	brew upgrade --cask projects-hacks/buddy/buddy

Note

Your keys, memory and permissions stay as they are.

First time installing?

Or with Homebrew:

brew tap projects-hacks/buddy https://github.com/projects-hacks/buddy
brew trust projects-hacks/buddy
brew install --cask projects-hacks/buddy/buddy

More help: install guide.

_{Every update is checked against Buddy.dmg.sha256 and the app's signature before it installs. To check a download by hand: shasum -a 256 -c Buddy.dmg.sha256}