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WhisperDictation v1.0.7 — Polished Release

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@sam-pop sam-pop released this 12 Apr 02:38
v1.0.7
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WhisperDictation v1.0.7

Polished, stable release with all tests passing and expanded developer vocabulary.

Quality

  • 51 tests passing — settings, state machine, models, TextCorrector (numbers, acronyms, capitalization, punctuation), audio devices, WhisperBridge
  • All XcodeGen/xcodebuild issues resolved
  • Comprehensive CLAUDE.md documenting all gotchas and patterns

Streaming Output

Text appears at your cursor as each segment is decoded — grammar correction applied per-segment in real time.

Speed

  • GPU pre-warming (no first-use lag)
  • Adaptive decoding (greedy for short clips, beam search for longer)
  • VAD trims silence before inference

Accuracy

  • 500-word developer vocabulary covering:
    • Frontend: React hooks, SSR/SSG, accessibility, design systems, CSS, animations, PWA
    • Backend: middleware, caching, auth, message brokers, circuit breakers, queues
    • DevOps: CI/CD, canary deploys, SLAs, feature flags, monitoring
    • UI: tooltip, dropdown, modal, accordion, carousel, pagination
    • AI/ML: LLM, RAG, embeddings, PyTorch, transformers
    • Languages & frameworks: 30+ languages, 50+ frameworks
  • Hallucination suppression, independent transcription context
  • 100+ term auto-casing (api->API, javascript->JavaScript)
  • Number word conversion (three hundred->300, eighty eighty->8,080)

Install

  1. Download WhisperDictation.dmg
  2. Open DMG, drag to Applications
  3. If macOS blocks it: xattr -cr /Applications/WhisperDictation.app
  4. Open WhisperDictation
  5. Grant Microphone + Accessibility permissions
  6. Settings > Model > download Small Q5 (181 MB, recommended)

Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.

Build from Source

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/sam-pop/WhisperDictation.git
cd WhisperDictation
make whisper && make model && make run

Full Changelog: v1.0.6...v1.0.7

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