Steno 0.6.1

Steno v0.6.1

Fixes

• Auto-generated titles on demand — with automatic summaries turned off, generating a note's summary later ("Generate notes") now also gives it an AI-generated title, instead of leaving it stuck at "Note". Notes you've named yourself are never overwritten.
• Speech-model download (HTTP 401) — fixed the Parakeet transcription model failing to download when an unrelated or expired Hugging Face token was present in your environment. These are public models, so the download is now always anonymous and can't be broken by a stray token.
• Meeting auto-detect — calls whose microphone is captured by a browser helper process (e.g. browser-based video calls) are now recognised.

Under the hood

• Title generation is more robust to reasoning-model output (it strips stray <think> blocks and markdown) and now logs failures instead of silently keeping the placeholder name.

Thanks to our contributors

• @evgeny-golubev — meeting auto-detect for browser helper processes (#345)

Downloads

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

The .zip and .yml assets below are used by the in-app auto-updater - no need to download them manually.

First Time Setup

1. Download the DMG
2. Install by dragging Steno 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 not supported (since v0.4.0)
• macOS 12 (Monterey) or later
• Internet connection for initial setup
• Microphone access permissions

Intel Mac users

Steno is Apple Silicon only (since v0.4.0). Intel users should stay on v0.3.8, the last release supporting Intel Macs. Auto-update on existing Intel installs is gated and will not offer newer versions to those machines.