Aloud 0.1.5

What's new

• Panel is now genuinely fixed-size (not just nominally) — Now Playing and Settings each get their own fixed size, switching with a smooth animated resize when you navigate between them, rather than reflowing based on content.
• Visual redesign: real brand accent color (the app was silently using the system accent color before), a solid white/adaptive panel instead of the translucent gray vibrancy look, cards, icon badges, a mini waveform, and a larger accent play/pause button.
• Settings no longer needs an all-encompassing scroll — only the 28-voice list scrolls internally; the hotkey, speed, login, permission, and model rows are always visible.
• Accessibility contrast pass: measured several color pairs by hand and found real WCAG failures (secondary text ~2.6:1, accent-on-tint text ~2.9:1, white icon on dark-mode accent fill ~1.8:1) — all fixed. Added VoiceOver labels to every icon-only button and made the mini waveform respect Reduce Motion.

Install

1. Download the .dmg below.
2. Open it and drag Aloud into Applications.
3. Right-click Aloud.app -> Open the first time (it's not notarized), then confirm Open.
4. First launch walks you through granting Accessibility access and downloading the voice model (~340MB, one-time).

Requires macOS 15+ on Apple Silicon. See the README for details.