Parrot 0.13.0 — tell me what's broken

Parrot can now be told when it misbehaves without you leaving the app, the help is where you'd actually look for it, and the live transcript stopped fidgeting.

Report a bug without hunting for GitHub. There's a small ladybug in the bottom right corner of the window, and Help → Report a Bug… does the same thing. Write what happened, and Parrot fills in the boring parts: version, model, transcription settings, and optionally a picture of the window. Nothing is sent anywhere on its own. You get a pre-filled issue in your browser, you look it over, you post it. Ideas and feature requests go through the same button. The screenshot is a picture of Parrot's window only, never your whole screen, and it lands on your clipboard so you paste it in yourself.

The user guide is findable now. An "Open User Guide" link in Settings, a proper help button in the corner of the settings sidebar, and an About row that opens my hello page. Two things were quietly broken behind that: the in-app help was indexed in a format modern macOS can't read, and it's now built in both. Check Now tells you when you're already up to date instead of looking like a dead button.

The live transcript sits still. The typing bubble used to restart each sentence from the first word every couple of seconds while you spoke. It reads forward now, and the finished line lands sooner, which means Copilot cards do too.

Onboarding offers the compressed model. Large V3 Turbo Compressed (626 MB) has been in Settings since 0.12.1 but was missing from the first-run picker, where it's arguably the best choice: nearly the accuracy of the 1.6 GB model at a third of the download and memory. Model names read like names now, not like folder paths.

A filter I decided not to ship. Loud typing near the mic can make Whisper invent a confident sentence, and the obvious fix is to drop low-confidence lines. Measured against real transcripts, that would have been a disaster: Whisper's confidence tracks language, not nonsense. Segments in Turkish average -1.43 where English averages -0.29, so any threshold low enough to catch the junk would have silently deleted most of a bilingual user's transcript. The measurements are in the code so nobody tries it again, including me.

What's Changed

• Preview: stop restarting the typing bubble every cycle in #29
• Help discoverability: guide links in Settings, About row, modern help index in #34
• Bug reporting: corner button, report sheet, pre-filled GitHub issue in #35
• Onboarding offers the compressed model; confidence-floor filter investigated and rejected in #36

Full Changelog: v0.12.2...v0.13.0