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@sushilk1991 sushilk1991 released this 17 Jul 06:58
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Velora 0.8.0

Local-first, on-device dictation for macOS. Your voice never leaves your Mac.

New in this release

  • Speaker diarization for meetings. Multi-person calls are split into
    Speaker 1 / Speaker 2 / … in the transcript, using on-device models
    (sherpa-onnx, ~46 MB fetched on the first meeting). One-on-one calls stay
    plain "Them"; toggle in Settings → Meetings.
  • Safe Voice Edit. Select text anywhere, press ⌥⇧E, and speak an edit —
    "make this more formal", "fix the grammar", "turn this into bullet points".
    Only the selection is touched, the change is undoable (⌘Z), and the edited
    text is always on the clipboard as a fallback.
  • "As Heard" escape hatch. Paste the untouched raw transcript from the
    menubar (Reformat Last as → As Heard) or view it in History — for when
    cleanup got something wrong and you just want the words.
  • Automatic update checks. A once-a-day anonymous check against GitHub
    releases (off in Settings → General if you'd rather Velora never touch the
    network after model download).
  • Menubar icons for History, Meetings, and Setup Assistant.

Performance

Cleanup model is auto-selected by RAM (lighter 4-bit on ≤16 GB Macs).
Measured on Apple Silicon: dictation stop→final ~1.1 s, voice edit ~0.5 s per
sentence, diarization ~2 s per audio-minute. Peak engine memory a few GB.

Install

Apple Silicon + macOS 14+. Grab the DMG below (Developer ID-signed and
notarized), drag Velora to Applications, and open it. First launch downloads
the models (~6 GB) with visible progress; after that everything is offline.

Prefer to build? git clone, then make app — see the README.

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