StenoAI 0.5.6

StenoAI v0.5.6

Reports & templates

• Report templates + per-meeting reports — define your own report styles and generate them from any note. A meeting can now hold more than one report (the structured Standard summary plus any template-driven reports), switchable in the detail view, with a Templates tab in Settings. (#252, @Optic00)

Transcript export

• Copy / save transcript — copy the full transcript or save it as Markdown (title, metadata, your notes, and diarised [You]/[Others] text) to paste into any external tool. (#215, @Optic00)

Reliability

• Never lose a transcript — if batch transcription returns empty, Steno falls back to the live transcript you watched during the recording instead of saving a blank note; the audio is kept for reprocessing. (#247, @Optic00)
• Better long-meeting summaries — map-reduce summarization chunks long transcripts so multi-hour meetings summarize reliably without overflowing the model's context. (#250, @Optic00)

Under the hood

• Quantization-aware summary models — the E4B and 12B summary tiers now use QAT builds (higher quality at a similar footprint). Existing selections are migrated automatically. (#251, @Optic00)
• Dynamic home hero — the home screen headline now reflects your live recording and calendar state. (#257, @ruzin)

Upgrade notes

• Summary model ids for the E4B/12B tiers changed to their quantization-aware builds (gemma4:4b → gemma4:e4b-it-qat, gemma4:12b → gemma4:12b-it-qat); if you were on one of these, Steno migrates the setting for you on first launch.
• Generated reports are stored in a per-meeting <note>_reports.json sidecar next to the note — your canonical .md/.json note file is untouched.

Contributors

Huge thanks to @Optic00 for the bulk of this release — report templates, transcript export, the live-transcript rescue, map-reduce summarization, and the QAT model switch — and to @ruzin for the home-hero work. 🙏

Downloads

• Apple Silicon (M1-M5): stenoAI-macos-arm64.dmg

First Time Setup

1. Download the DMG
2. Install by dragging StenoAI to Applications
3. Launch app - setup wizard runs automatically
4. Grant microphone permissions when prompted
5. Start recording meetings!

Requirements

• Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) — Intel Macs are no longer supported as of v0.4.0
• macOS 12 (Monterey) or later
• Internet connection for initial setup
• Microphone access permissions

Intel Mac users

v0.4.0 is Apple Silicon only. Intel users should stay on v0.3.8, which is the last release supporting Intel Macs. Auto-update on existing Intel installs is gated and will not push v0.4.0 to those machines.