OraType 1.2.0

What's New in 1.2.0

• Typelite is now OraType. Your settings, models and dictionary come along. Grant Accessibility and Microphone again once (System Settings → Privacy & Security), and if macOS asks to let OraType use “Typelite” in your keychain, choose Always Allow: those are your saved API keys.
• Hands-free mode: say “Hey Sam”, pause, then speak, with no shortcut. Your words are typed into the app; say “ask …” to ask instead. Finish with “Thanks, Sam” or a 3-second pause. Turn it on in Settings → General → Hands-free; a small model (60 MB) listens on your Mac, so nothing is sent before the wake phrase.
• The pill shows again after a quiet spell. After about eight minutes without dictating, it could stop appearing while dictation still worked.
• Long dictations, especially in Cantonese, are no longer cut short by polish. Built-in AI has twice the room, and an answer that still runs out is replaced by your transcript.
• With a shortcut on a single Command key, Ask no longer stops the moment it starts in apps where OraType copies your highlight to read it.

Install

1. Download the .dmg (or the .zip) below. It is for Macs with Apple Silicon.

2. Open the DMG and drag OraType to Applications.

3. This build is not signed or notarised by Apple yet, so macOS blocks it the first time.
   Right-click OraType.app and choose Open (on macOS 15 and later: System Settings →
   Privacy & Security → Open Anyway), or run this once in Terminal:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/OraType.app

4. Allow Microphone and Accessibility when asked, then follow the guided setup.

SHA256SUMS.txt lists the SHA-256 of each file. Check a download with
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt in the folder you downloaded to.

Typelite 1.1.3

What's New in 1.1.3

• Your languages: tell Typelite which languages you speak (in onboarding or Settings → Speech). For Cantonese it suggests two built-in models to download: Qwen3-ASR, which writes Cantonese the way you say it, and Qwen 3.5 4B for polish.
• Typelite leaves your clipboard alone: a result it cannot type waits in the Copy pill, a paste brings back everything you had copied (images and files too), and clipboard managers no longer record dictations.
• Clicking into an app and dictating right away now types the text instead of copying it.
• Ask anything with web search reads the top result pages, so questions about news, scores and upcoming games get an answer. A date it cannot confirm is flagged.
• Highlight text, press Ask and say “translate this into English”: the translation opens in the Ask panel with Copy and Replace.
• Text in the Ask panel can be selected, and ⌘C copies the selection.
• Polish removes fillers and hesitations (um, 嗯, 呃) in every language, keeps only your correction when you change your mind, and no longer joins sentences with dashes.

Install

1. Download the .dmg (or the .zip) below. It is for Macs with Apple Silicon.

2. Open the DMG and drag Typelite to Applications.

3. This build is not signed or notarised by Apple yet, so macOS blocks it the first time.
   Right-click Typelite.app and choose Open (on macOS 15 and later: System Settings →
   Privacy & Security → Open Anyway), or run this once in Terminal:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Typelite.app

4. Allow Microphone and Accessibility when asked, then follow the guided setup.

SHA256SUMS.txt lists the SHA-256 of each file. Check a download with
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt in the folder you downloaded to.

Typelite 1.1.2

What's New in 1.1.2

• Built-in speech is about twice as fast for short dictations: it no longer processes 30 seconds of silence after every clip.
• Results paste about half a second sooner: checking that your app is still in front no longer runs AppleScript.
• With a microphone chosen in Settings, recording starts about 0.3 seconds sooner, so your first words are not cut off.
• The interface now also speaks 繁體中文, Español, Français, Deutsch and 日本語. Choose it in Settings → General.
• Translation has its own Settings pane, and Settings now follows the three shortcuts: Dictate, Translate, Ask.
• Ask anything's sources, citations and buttons now highlight under the pointer and show the hand cursor.
• Super intelligence mode (Settings → System): a joke switch that promotes the artificial kind of intelligence to the super kind.
• Polished text pastes ordinary spaces, never invisible no-break spaces.
• About shows the real version and the app icon.

Install

1. Download the .dmg (or the .zip) below. It is for Macs with Apple Silicon.

2. Open the DMG and drag Typelite to Applications.

3. This build is not signed or notarised by Apple yet, so macOS blocks it the first time.
   Right-click Typelite.app and choose Open (on macOS 15 and later: System Settings →
   Privacy & Security → Open Anyway), or run this once in Terminal:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Typelite.app

4. Allow Microphone and Accessibility when asked, then follow the guided setup.

SHA256SUMS.txt lists the SHA-256 of each file. Check a download with
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt in the folder you downloaded to.

Typelite 1.1.1

What's New in 1.1.1

• Ask anything answers in your question's language and script, even when the web sources are in another language.
• Language presets now shape Dictate and Ask too, and Cantonese is recognised and written in Hong Kong characters.
• A request you dictate ("please explain this in Cantonese") is written down as you said it, never carried out in another language.
• AI polish writes spoken decimals and versions as digits ("five point five" → 5.5, "Opus Five Point Five" → Opus 5.5).
• Clicks beside the Ask panel reach the app behind it.
• Source cards show Open and Copy link as always-visible icons, so a stray click no longer opens or copies a link.
• What's New shows one release at a time, with arrows to step through older ones.
• Lighter and faster: less work while recording, a cheaper speech check, and a quicker dictionary with large word lists.

Install

1. Download the .dmg (or the .zip) below. It is for Macs with Apple Silicon.

2. Open the DMG and drag Typelite to Applications.

3. This build is not signed or notarised by Apple yet, so macOS blocks it the first time.
   Right-click Typelite.app and choose Open (on macOS 15 and later: System Settings →
   Privacy & Security → Open Anyway), or run this once in Terminal:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Typelite.app

4. Allow Microphone and Accessibility when asked, then follow the guided setup.

SHA256SUMS.txt lists the SHA-256 of each file. Check a download with
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt in the folder you downloaded to.

Typelite 1.1.0

What's New in 1.1.0

• Ask anything can search the web for live questions (news, scores, schedules, prices) with SearXNG: Typelite sets it up on your Mac in one click, or uses your own server.
• Answers from the web cite their sources: open the sources column beside the answer to see each page, open it or copy its link.
• Updates from GitHub Releases: Typelite downloads a new version in the background and asks you to restart. Only the version file is requested; turn it off in Settings → System.
• From 1.1.0 on, the Accessibility permission stays granted after each update. Coming from 1.0, turn it on once more after installing.
• When the text cannot be typed into the app in front, the pill offers it with a Copy button instead.
• A translation language added in Settings shows in the Translate pill straight away, without a restart.
• The pill and the Ask panel stay centred and change size smoothly, without jumps.
• Set up on Home opens the matching Settings page.
• Settings records one shortcut at a time.

Install

1. Download the .dmg (or the .zip) below. It is for Macs with Apple Silicon.

2. Open the DMG and drag Typelite to Applications.

3. This build is not signed or notarised by Apple yet, so macOS blocks it the first time.
   Right-click Typelite.app and choose Open (on macOS 15 and later: System Settings →
   Privacy & Security → Open Anyway), or run this once in Terminal:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Typelite.app

4. Allow Microphone and Accessibility when asked, then follow the guided setup.

SHA256SUMS.txt lists the SHA-256 of each file. Check a download with
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt in the folder you downloaded to.

Typelite 1.0.1

What's New in 1.0.1

• AI polish keeps only what you meant when you correct yourself ("at one, oh no, at two", "the first thing, sorry, the third thing").
• AI polish writes down a request you dictate ("write an email in Japanese…") instead of carrying it out or switching language.
• AI polish keeps file names, commands and short code words whole: "dot gitignore" becomes .gitignore.
• AI polish writes a name you spell out letter by letter once, with that spelling, and drops the letters.
• The installer shows the usual window: large icons and an arrow to drag Typelite to Applications.
• The setup tutorial's close button sits beside the window buttons and is easier to see.

Install

1. Download the .dmg (or the .zip) below. It is for Macs with Apple Silicon.

2. Open the DMG and drag Typelite to Applications.

3. This build is not signed or notarised by Apple yet, so macOS blocks it the first time.
   Right-click Typelite.app and choose Open (on macOS 15 and later: System Settings →
   Privacy & Security → Open Anyway), or run this once in Terminal:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Typelite.app

4. Allow Microphone and Accessibility when asked, then follow the guided setup.

SHA256SUMS.txt lists the SHA-256 of each file. Check a download with
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt in the folder you downloaded to.

Typelite 1.0.0

What's New in 1.0.0

• First release. Built-in speech recognition and AI polish: set up in one click, and your voice and text stay on your Mac.
• Or use your own server or API key: any OpenAI-compatible speech or chat service, or Qwen Cloud.
• Qwen3-ASR on llama.cpp as a speech server, with Chinese written in the characters of your language (for example Hong Kong Traditional for Cantonese).
• Dictate, Translate and Ask anything, each on its own shortcut; record a shortcut by pressing the keys.
• Up to three translation languages, with a Switch language key while you translate.
• Language presets from the project's library on GitHub: each language's instructions can come from a preset, and they also shape polish when you speak that language.
• The pill shows a live waveform while you speak, appears over full-screen apps, and simply fades out when it heard no speech.
• Insights on Home: how long each step took, and your speaking speed compared with your typing speed.
• Speech and AI presets: save several endpoints and switch between them.
• Microphone picker with a live input level.
• A step-by-step setup tutorial.
• Native Glass look that follows light and dark mode.
• No history: Typelite keeps no record of what you say.

Install

1. Download the .dmg (or the .zip) below. It is for Macs with Apple Silicon.

2. Open the DMG and drag Typelite to Applications.

3. This build is not signed or notarised by Apple yet, so macOS blocks it the first time.
   Right-click Typelite.app and choose Open (on macOS 15 and later: System Settings →
   Privacy & Security → Open Anyway), or run this once in Terminal:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Typelite.app

4. Allow Microphone and Accessibility when asked, then follow the guided setup.

SHA256SUMS.txt lists the SHA-256 of each file. Check a download with
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt in the folder you downloaded to.