Parrot 0.12.0 — sentences, not fragments

The biggest update since Parrot went public, and the first one under GPL-3.0.

Transcripts read like people talk now. Lines land as whole sentences when the speaker pauses, instead of chopped 2-second fragments, and while someone is mid-sentence you see a live preview filling in. Silence is never transcribed anymore, which also gets rid of the phantom "you" and "Thank you." lines that used to appear out of nowhere.

The quit crash is gone. Quitting mid-recording used to leave the app unable to start again (#18). Quitting now finishes the recording properly first, and a recording interrupted by a crash or force-quit is rescued on the next launch. Thanks @Ennazk for the crash report that cracked it.

You control what the Copilot costs. New in Settings → Copilot: a pace picker (Fast, Balanced, Relaxed — Relaxed spaces requests out to fit free model tiers), a setting for how much conversation each request carries, and a pause button right on the call screen. While paused, nothing is sent and nothing is spent, and your cards survive. Thanks @datpro12345 for the push (#20).

Two transcription bugs fixed. With a custom vocabulary set, Whisper could silently swallow a whole sentence; and when call audio plays through speakers, your mic could hear it and write the other side's lines twice. Both found by testing on real calls, both fixed.

Parrot has a real user guide now. turantekin.github.io/Parrot/help — screenshots of every screen, a proper walkthrough of profiles and settings, and troubleshooting. The same pages ship inside the app under Help → Parrot Help, searchable and offline.

License. From this release Parrot is GPL-3.0. Releases up to 0.11.3 remain MIT.

What's Changed

• Fix #18: quit-while-recording crash loop, main-actor lifecycle + graceful quit in #22
• Transcript segmentation: cut at speech pauses instead of fixed 2s chunks in #23
• Copilot budget controls: pace presets, context window, in-meeting pause in #24
• Relicense to GPL-3.0 in #25
• Fix glossary-prompt utterance loss + speaker-bleed dedup + live-loop test harness in #26
• Rolling preview: live text while an utterance accumulates in #27
• User guide: docs/help pages, in-app Apple Help Book, and a hello page in #28

Full Changelog: v0.11.3...v0.12.0