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NowCaption 1.2.1

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@github-actions github-actions released this 27 Oct 09:28
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v1.2.1
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Live captions for any audio on your Linux desktop, recognised entirely on your own computer. This release makes docked captions sit properly against a floating KDE Plasma panel.

Install

With automatic updates (recommended):

flatpak install --user --from https://techlm77.github.io/NowCaption/nowcaption.flatpakref

Installed that way already? flatpak update gets 1.2.1.

Or download a file below — x86_64 for most PCs, aarch64 for 64-bit ARM — then:

flatpak install --user NowCaption-1.2.1-x86_64.flatpak

Or the AppImage, for Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 and newer — no installation needed:

chmod +x NowCaption-1.2.1-x86_64.AppImage
./NowCaption-1.2.1-x86_64.AppImage

Gear Lever or AppImageUpdate can keep it up to date.

What's new in 1.2.1

  • Docked captions and floating Plasma panels. A floating panel stops floating while a window touches it, but Plasma only counts app windows. Docked on the panel's edge, the captions touch it and maximised windows stop at the captions, so the panel kept floating. On KDE Plasma 6, while the captions are docked against a floating panel, NowCaption now turns that panel's floating off, and back on when you move the captions, choose Floating or quit (also at the next start if NowCaption ever crashes). Panels you set not to float yourself are left alone.
  • A new Flatpak permission lets NowCaption talk to Plasma for this. If you'd rather not allow it, run flatpak override --user --no-talk-name=org.kde.plasmashell io.github.Techlm77.NowCaption; the panel then keeps floating next to docked captions.
  • Plasma 5.27 has no way for apps to change a panel's floating, so there nothing changes: turn off Floating for that panel in Edit Mode, or dock the captions on another edge.

Everything else works as in 1.2.0, with the same v3 speech model from the models-v3 release. The .zip and .tar.gz below contain the source code.

SHA-256 of the Flatpaks and AppImages:

  • NowCaption-1.2.1-x86_64.flatpak: 2840183f72a78db65ff4da6af0de6c3fac66d20ff4373d1bc30cb6baabc68ca2
  • NowCaption-1.2.1-aarch64.flatpak: df30977cc4d05ba178c7f658c2a018de630271c46caaff0d39d8678f17c5b414
  • NowCaption-1.2.1-x86_64.AppImage: 03a7f78ddaf2afb1bc102faaedc484930b19327ccb168f836dd4ad8e6af61951
  • NowCaption-1.2.1-aarch64.AppImage: 6ececedd0248f4cb196f63bd3a0775ab9e408084569fe93adeb15672306f59f6
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