ChatterLayer v0.3.0

ChatterLayer v0.3.0

Live, colour-coded Discord voice captions for OBS. Free and fully
offline — speech recognition runs on your own machine. No API keys,
no accounts, no per-minute billing.

Download

Platform	File
Windows (installer)	ChatterLayer-*-Setup.exe
Windows (portable)	ChatterLayer-*-portable.exe
macOS	ChatterLayer-*.dmg
Linux	ChatterLayer-*.AppImage or .deb

First run

ChatterLayer asks which speech model to download — models aren't
bundled because they range from 40 MB to 2.5 GB and you only need
one. It marks the one that suits your PC: Parakeet TDT 0.6B
(2.5 GB, the most accurate) if you have 16 GB of RAM or more, or
Moonshine Base (251 MB) on lighter machines. Models are stored
in your user data folder and survive updates.

You'll also need a Discord bot token — about two minutes to set up,
no privileged intents required. See the README.

About the "unknown developer" warnings

ChatterLayer is free and unfunded, and code-signing certificates
cost money each year, so these builds aren't signed. Your OS will
say so on first launch. The app is the same one built by this repo's
CI — here's what you'll see and how to get past it:

• Windows — SmartScreen shows a blue box. Choose More info →
  Run anyway. (It stops warning once enough people have
  downloaded a given release.)
• macOS — Gatekeeper may say the app is "damaged". It isn't —
  that's the quarantine flag on an unsigned app. ChatterLayer
  clears it for you: open it once (right-click → Open → Open),
  and it offers a one-click fix so every launch after is normal. Or
  run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/ChatterLayer.app
  yourself.
• Linux — mark the AppImage executable first:
  chmod +x ChatterLayer-*.AppImage.

Verify your download. Every release ships SHA256SUMS (signed
with Sigstore) and each installer carries build provenance:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS
gh attestation verify ChatterLayer-*-Setup.exe --repo ruptz/ChatterLayer

Or skip the binaries entirely and build from source — four commands,
see the README.

What's Changed

• Dev by @ruptz in #11

New Contributors

• @ruptz made their first contribution in #11

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0