1AudioTool v0.2.0

Added

• Speaker separation in meetings — a Listen recording now shows who said
  what. Voices are told apart on this Mac after the meeting stops, each turn is
  attributed, and clicking a name renames that speaker everywhere in the
  transcript.
  • Teach my voice records a few seconds of you and labels you Me
    instead of a number. Nothing is ever labelled Me until you enrol, and the
    voiceprint never leaves this Mac.
  • Two engines, chosen per profile in Settings - Speech. Built-in needs
    nothing extra and separates an ordinary two- or three-person meeting.
    Speaker model is a download that is sharper on noisy calls and on
    voices that sound alike.
  • Markers you drop during a meeting and the chapters built from them appear
    beside the speaker list, so a long recording can be read before it is
    replayed.
• Pick a microphone and see it working — the input picker in Dictate,
  Settings and the recording overlay lists every microphone by name and type,
  Built-in, Bluetooth, USB, Virtual or External, and draws a live level meter
  under the list. A microphone that another app is holding, or that has quietly
  stopped responding, is now visible before a recording is spent finding out.
  • The picker is on the overlay while a dictation runs, so you can move to
    another microphone without losing what you have already said.
  • When a capture fails, the same picker is on the failure card, and choosing
    an input there is what retries it.
• Create a profile from the sidebar — choosing "New profile" in the profile
  menu opens a name field in place. The new profile starts on the default
  settings and becomes active straight away, so a second voice or a different
  set of languages is a few keystrokes away. The free tier keeps one profile,
  and the menu explains what Pro adds rather than failing silently.
• Long dictations no longer make you wait at the end — each sentence is
  transcribed during the pause that follows it, so when you stop, only the last
  one is left. On a recording of about a minute and a quarter the wait after
  stopping went from 2.7 seconds to a third of a second, and it no longer grows
  with how long you spoke. With live text turned on, each sentence appears in
  the overlay as it lands. It needs the quality model loaded, and it can be
  turned off in Settings - Performance - Transcribe as you speak.
• Dictate again from the result card — the card that shows a finished
  transcript starts the next dictation, without reaching for the shortcut.
  Double-clicking the transcript there opens it for correction.
• Discard a recording from the tray — Escape only reaches a window that has
  focus, which is never the case when you dictate into another app.
• Windows support — the double-Control gesture, insertion at the caret in
  the app you were last in, spoken responses through the system voice, and the
  folder picker all run natively.
  • Releases now carry a Windows installer alongside the macOS bundles, with
    the same update signature. It is not Authenticode-signed yet, so SmartScreen
    warns on first run.
• The Inbox pages — Needs review, Learning, saved rules and Sources each
  show a page at a time with Previous and Next. A full Inbox used to build a
  transcript editor and an audio player for all 500 clips before it would draw.

Improved

• The global gesture on macOS is Option twice, not Control twice. macOS
  binds double-Control to its own Dictation and keeps that binding even when
  Dictation is switched off, so reclaiming it meant swallowing every Control
  press system-wide and posting a synthetic one back a fraction of a second
  later. Nothing binds a bare double tap of Option, so the watcher now only
  listens: no modifier is ever swallowed or replayed, and Option-click,
  Option-drag and every Option chord are untouched. Existing profiles move
  across on their own. Windows keeps Control twice, where a lone Alt press
  would open the menu bar.
• Dictation is faster to finish — the model now loads while you are still
  speaking rather than after you stop, and it stays loaded between dictations,
  so the wait between finishing a sentence and seeing it appear went from about
  a second to about a fifth of one on the machine this was measured on. The
  timing, and how long the model stays loaded, are in Settings - Performance.
• The transcript reaches your cursor sooner — pasting used to wait for the
  history entry, the recording and the profile to be written first; now it goes
  first and the bookkeeping follows. Bringing your app back to the front no
  longer waits out a fixed pause, and no longer asks macOS for permission to
  control other applications.
• A profile that names a model you do not have now corrects itself — it
  used to surface, after a whole recording was spoken, as a microphone error.
  The choice is matched against what is actually installed and written back, so
  Settings shows the model that is really being used.
• Copying on Windows keeps every character — text outside the system's
  console character set, accents, Vietnamese and emoji, now copies intact, and
  pasting no longer waits out a fixed pause before it starts.
• Saving after a clip no longer rewrites your whole history — transcripts
  are stored separately from the profile, so the pause some people saw a moment
  after pasting is gone. Existing history moves across the first time this
  version opens it.
• The Inbox holds less memory — recordings are read only when their row
  scrolls into view, and a list releases the recordings the previous render
  held. Re-rendering the Inbox used to leak one copy of every clip's audio.
• Settings are written once per pause rather than once per change.
• The interface is rebuilt, and everything carries over — profiles,
  transcripts, correction rules, packs, appearance and your licence are
  untouched, and the app reads exactly the same files on disk it did before.
  Each space now loads when you open it, so the window is ready sooner and
  stays lighter.
• Supporting text in the rail and panels is a shade darker — it was just
  under the contrast a small grey label needs to be comfortably readable.

Fixed

• Fixed dictation from the shortcut always failing when the app was not on
  screen — minimised, hidden behind another app, or on another Space, the
  shortcut would show the overlay with no timer, no microphone name and no
  input picker, then fail with "did not respond, on two attempts". The system
  will not open a microphone for a window that is not visible, and it does not
  refuse the request either; it simply holds it until the window comes back,
  which for a dictation into another app never happens. The recording overlay,
  which is on screen for exactly as long as a capture runs, now opens the
  microphone. Dictating from another app works the same way it does inside the
  app.
• Fixed the end of the last word being cut off — the final fraction of a
  second of every recording was dropped as the microphone was released. It is
  now waited for and included in the clip.
• Fixed the overlay going blank after the main window was reloaded — it
  stopped accepting updates for the rest of the session and showed a stale
  card.
• Fixed a shortcut that never armed saying nothing — watching for the
  gesture needs Input Monitoring, a separate grant from Accessibility, and
  without it macOS refuses silently while the settings panel still shows the
  shortcut as bound. 1AudioTool now asks for that permission, reports it
  alongside Accessibility, and links straight to the right pane when it is
  missing.
• Fixed the app not responding after a dictation — pasting at the cursor
  ran the clipboard write, the app switch and a deliberate settle delay while
  the window was trying to draw, and working out which app was frontmost added
  two more round trips before every capture.
• Fixed downloading a model freezing the app — the window stopped drawing
  and macOS showed "Application Not Responding" until the model finished,
  several minutes on the larger ones. The progress bar now moves while it runs.
• Fixed activating or validating a licence, choosing a project folder,
  scanning a folder, reading storage usage and listing voices blocking the
  window while they wait.
• Fixed saving a recording stalling the window — each clip crossed to the
  backend as a list of a few million numbers, which the app built and parsed
  itself; it is now sent as raw audio.
• Fixed typing in a search box, and the level meter while recording,
  competing with the interface for frames — searching redraws once you pause,
  and finishing a clip prepares the audio out of the way.

Privacy

• Speaker separation runs entirely on this Mac. Voice vectors and the
  voiceprint from "Teach my voice" are computed and stored locally, are never
  uploaded, and no speaker is labelled Me until you explicitly enrol.
• Audio, transcripts, profiles, correction memory and licence state still stay
  on this machine unless you export them. There is no account, no API key and
  no server.
• The speaker model is an optional download, like the transcription models. It
  runs on this disk once installed, and meetings are never sent anywhere to be
  separated.