🎤📸 macPerplex v1.1.1 — Voice Emotion + Reliability Polish

🎤📸 macPerplex v1.1.1 (2026-01-16)

A polish + reliability release with optional voice emotion context (Hume.ai), cleaner modular audio processing, and fewer “mystery failures” when attaching to Chrome.

✨ Highlights

• 🎭 Voice Emotion Analysis (Optional): Adds structured [voice_affect: {...}] context to your Perplexity prompt (Hume Prosody).
• ⚡ Faster pipeline: Emotion analysis + transcription run in parallel.
• 🧠 Better debugging: Prints the top detected emotion scores even when nothing passes your threshold (helps tune EMOTION_MIN_SCORE).
• 🧩 Cleaner architecture: Audio work moved into audio_processor.py.

✅ Fixes

• 🔁 Fixed a circular import risk between macPerplex.py and audio_processor.py (removed dead screenshot code from the audio module).
• 🧷 More accurate Chrome attach detection: verifies the DevTools endpoint instead of only checking if port 9222 is open (prevents false positives).

📦 Install / Update

pip install git+https://github.com/sunnypsmith/macPerplex.git@v1.1.1

macPerplex v1.1.0 - Performance & Robustness

🚀 Performance & Robustness Release

Major improvements to speed, reliability, and code quality.

✨ New Features

• 🔬 Deep Research Auto-Detection - Say "research" to automatically enable Perplexity's Deep Research mode
• 🔊 Audio Normalization - Consistent volume for better Whisper transcription (helps with Krisp/low levels)
• 🗑️ Auto Cleanup - Removes orphaned temp files on startup

⚡ Performance Improvements

• 8-13 seconds faster per query!
• Upload detection: Instant WebDriverWait instead of polling loop
• Audio-only mode: Nearly instant submission
• Removed unnecessary delays throughout

🛡️ Security & Robustness

• Enforces MAX_RECORDING_DURATION (prevents runaway recordings)
• Fixed tempfile race condition (security vulnerability)
• Fixed audio stream resource leak
• Fixed subprocess zombie process leak
• Replaced all bare except: with specific exception types
• Added stale element protection throughout
• Fixed file input race conditions

🎨 Code Quality

• Unified Rich console output formatting
• Better error messages with color coding
• Professional project structure (pyproject.toml, CHANGELOG, CONTRIBUTING)

📦 Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/sunnypsmith/macPerplex.git@v1.1.0### 📝 Full Changelog
See CHANGELOG.md

macPerplex v1.0.0 - Initial Release

🎉 Initial Stable Release

Voice-controlled AI assistant for Perplexity on macOS with screenshot capture.

✨ Key Features

• 🎤 Voice-to-text using OpenAI Whisper
• 🖼️ Visual region selection with drag-to-select
• 🖥️ Multi-monitor support
• 🔔 Audio feedback tones for all actions
• 📊 Live audio visualization with recording timer
• ⏳ Progress spinners for transcription and uploads
• 📸 High-resolution Retina screenshots with sharpening
• 🌍 Language-constrained transcription (prevents unexpected languages)
• 🎨 Beautiful terminal UI with Rich library
• 🦶 USB foot pedal support (F13/F14 via ElfKey)

📦 Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/sunnypsmith/macPerplex.git@v1.0.0See README.md for full setup instructions.

📝 Full Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md

See README.md for full setup instructions.