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@teconomix teconomix released this 29 Oct 12:21
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v0.11
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Smoother on Macs with 16 GB, transcribe again with one click, and memory data in bug reports.

Install or update (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+): in the app, “Copy update command”, or

curl -fsSL https://transcriber.teconomix.net/install.sh | bash

Homebrew: brew upgrade --cask local-transcriber.

Macs with 16 GB

  • The update switches speech recognition to 8-bit if you were still on 16-bit: measured just as accurate, about 0.8 GB less memory per loaded model (transcription and dictation). The app tells you once; choose 16-bit again in Settings › Recording › Speech recognition and it stays. The 16-bit model remains on disk until you delete it there.
  • Dictation steps aside while transcribing: on Macs with 16 GB or less, the dictation service frees its model while a transcription runs and starts again afterwards. Dictating in between still works (it takes a few seconds longer).

Transcribe again

  • Interrupted or failed transcriptions now have “Transcribe again” next to “Report a problem…”.
  • Re-analyze › Transcribe audio again redoes speech recognition and speaker separation from scratch for a finished transcript.
  • Recordings whose transcription was cut off by a crash or restart show up again under “recordings without a transcript”.

Bug reports

  • Reports now include memory data: total memory, memory pressure, swap, how much the Transcriber processes use, the names of the ten largest programs, and the type and time of system reports from the last 14 days (crashes, low memory). Still no recordings, transcripts or voice data.

Also

  • The panel button “All” is now “All transcripts”.
  • Dictation waits up to 30 s for the service to load (older Macs needed up to 14 s).
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