Talkty 1.2.0 — Lighter, more accurate, more honest

The app now behaves like a good tray citizen and tells you when something goes wrong.

Lighter on your PC

• The speech model's memory is freed after 15 minutes of inactivity. A large model no longer holds 1.5–3 GB of RAM around the clock while Talkty sits in the tray. It reloads automatically while you speak, so the next recording works exactly as before. Toggle: Settings → Behavior → "Free memory when idle" (on by default).
• Faster startup (GPU detection no longer blocks the launch path) and much less disk activity from logging.

More accurate transcription

• Removed the default cloud→Claude and sequel→SQL replacements — they rewrote legitimate speech ("AWS cloud" became "AWS Claude"). Re-add them in your vocabulary if you want them.
• The English coding-vocabulary prompt is no longer applied when transcribing other languages or using auto-detect — it was biasing non-English decoding toward English.
• Whisper's temperature fallback is re-enabled, so a decode stuck in a repetition loop recovers instead of producing garbage.

Prompting hardening

• Long dictations are never silently cut off: the output ceiling was raised 4× and a truncated result escalates to the next model instead of shipping incomplete.
• An invalid or out-of-credits OpenRouter key fails fast with a clear notification instead of silently trying all four models.
• The recording pill shows a purple Prompting… state while the AI expands your dictation.

You always know what happened

• Failed transcriptions and Prompting fallbacks now notify you — including as a tray balloon when the window is hidden.
• Fixed the main window showing red "Model Not Loaded" while a model was actually loading.
• Fixed: saving Settings silently reset custom text replacements to defaults on the next launch.

Full details in the CHANGELOG. Upgrading: run the installer over your existing install — settings are kept.