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Talkty 1.3.0 — 88% smaller, races fixed, honest auto-paste

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@v2matosevic v2matosevic released this 20 Aug 22:30
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v1.3.0
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The installer went from 484 MB to 58 MB, and two long-standing reliability bugs found in real usage logs are gone.

Smaller

  • CUDA is no longer bundled. GPU acceleration still works out of the box — on NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPUs — via the bundled Vulkan backend. NVIDIA users who want maximum speed can install the optional CUDA pack from Settings → Behavior (a one-time ~450 MB download with resume support, then one restart).
  • Upgrading keeps your CUDA. If a previous version installed the CUDA files, they stay in place and Talkty keeps using them — nothing to redo.
  • Dropped 128 MB of Linux/ARM binaries that could never load on Windows anyway.

More reliable

  • Fixed: a dictation could fail right after the app sat idle. After the 15-minute memory unload, the first transcription could hit an internal race ("Cannot dispose while processing") and get eaten. The engine now builds with your language up front and properly serializes its warmup — verified against weeks of real logs.
  • Fixed: volume ducking errored on nearly every recording. A garbage-collection bug killed the smooth fade-restore mid-fade (an instant fallback masked it). The fade now survives, and the log spam is gone.
  • Auto-paste tells you when it can't paste — and why. Apps running as administrator silently swallow synthetic keystrokes (a Windows security rule); Talkty now detects this properly and shows a toast instead of failing silently. Your text is always on the clipboard either way.

New (both opt-in, in Settings → Behavior)

  • Recording pill near the text cursor — the pill can follow where you're typing instead of sitting at the bottom of the screen. Bottom-center of your active monitor stays the default.
  • Restore previous clipboard after auto-paste — dictating no longer eats what you had copied. Talkty puts your old clipboard back after the paste lands (and never clobbers a newer copy).

Under the hood

  • CUDA pack installs are atomic (a crash mid-install can never leave a corrupted DLL) and downloads resume where they left off.
  • App restart after installing the pack is race-free.
  • Startup GPU detection no longer logs an error on every launch; dependency security bump (SharpCompress 1.0).

Upgrade: just run the installer over your existing installation — settings, history, models and CUDA files stay put.

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