Wheelhouse 1.0.4

Wheelhouse 1.0.4

Download Wheelhouse-Setup.exe below, double-click it, and follow the wizard. The PowerShell one-liner in INSTALL.md still works and installs the same thing. Updating from an earlier release is safe: run the new installer over your existing install -- it preserves your settings, your personal voice patterns, and the downloaded speech model.

The installer is digitally signed (publisher: David Chesley Hite III). Windows SmartScreen may still warn while the new file builds reputation: click More info, check the publisher name, then Run anyway. INSTALL.md documents this.

Added

• When the window you are dictating into belongs to a program running as administrator, Wheelhouse now shows a notice explaining that Windows blocks typing into administrator programs -- and how to fix it (restart Wheelhouse with right-click, Run as administrator) -- instead of silently doing nothing. The terminal dictation editor performs the same check before pasting.
• "Wheelhouse help online" now opens the official Wheelhouse Assistant by default -- a ChatGPT assistant that always answers from the latest released help document.

Fixed

• The "x-ray" commands are now recognized when the Parakeet speech engine splits or fuses the word (for example "x ray" or "xray").
• Help-document corrections: the mouse scroll commands now lead with the thumb-wheel behavior, the guidance on mishears and on volume commands was corrected, and a five-domain accuracy audit against the current code corrected twelve more inaccuracies covering voice commands, configuration, installation, speech engines, and plugins.

Changed

• The product name is now spelled Wheelhouse -- one word, capital W only. The installer is now Wheelhouse-Setup.exe, new installs go to a Wheelhouse folder with matching shortcuts and Add/Remove entry, and every notice, window title, document, and the website use the new spelling. The GitHub repository is now github.com/wheelhouse-project/Wheelhouse (old links redirect). Existing installs keep the old folder spelling until reinstalled; behavior is unaffected.
• Installation guidance now leads with the graphical installer (Wheelhouse-Setup.exe); the PowerShell one-liner remains available as an alternative.

WheelHouse 1.0.3

WheelHouse 1.0.3

Download WheelHouse-Setup.exe below, double-click it, and follow the wizard. The PowerShell one-liner in INSTALL.md still works and installs the same thing. Updating from an earlier release is safe: run the new installer over your existing install -- it preserves your settings, your personal voice patterns, and the downloaded speech model.

Update 2026-07-18: the WheelHouse-Setup.exe asset on this release was rebuilt and digitally signed (publisher: David Chesley Hite III). Windows SmartScreen may still warn while the new file builds reputation: click More info, check the publisher name, then Run anyway. INSTALL.md documents this.

Added

• The project website now carries a full documentation page rendered directly from the shipped help document, so the site and the in-app help can never disagree.
• The llm/ folder now ships the official WheelHouse Helper GPT files (gpt-instructions.txt and gpt-action-openapi.json), so you can build a ChatGPT GPT that always answers from the latest released help document.

Fixed

• On the Distil-Whisper speech engine, an internal vocabulary-biasing feature could garble or drop transcription entirely; it is now disabled on that engine.
• A five-domain accuracy audit checked the help document against the current code and corrected eight inaccuracies, covering voice commands, configuration, installation, speech engines, and the AI subsystem.

Changed

• The help document is now the single source of truth for using and installing WheelHouse: INSTALL.md is generated from its installation sections (and gained a Speech Engines and Accounts overview), and the assistant instructions that previously shipped as a separate llm/assistant-instructions.txt are now embedded in the help document itself -- the llm/ kit is a single file plus the GPT files above.

WheelHouse 1.0.2

WheelHouse 1.0.2

Download WheelHouse-Setup.exe below, double-click it, and follow the wizard. The PowerShell one-liner in INSTALL.md still works and installs the same thing. Updating from an earlier release is safe: run the new installer over your existing install -- it preserves your settings, your personal voice patterns, and the downloaded speech model.

The download is unsigned in this release, so Windows SmartScreen shows a warning ("Windows protected your PC"). Click More info, then Run anyway. INSTALL.md documents this.

Added

• Use WheelHouse help with your own AI assistant: the release now ships an llm/ folder containing the full help document and a ready-to-paste assistant instruction file, with step-by-step setup walkthroughs on the project site for Custom GPTs, Gemini Gems, Claude Projects, and Perplexity Spaces.

Fixed

• On the default speech engine, saying "comma" or "colon" sometimes typed a sound-alike word instead of the punctuation mark. The common mishears are now recognized as punctuation.
• The Pattern Manager no longer writes an internal whole-utterance flag into saved replacement patterns, which could stop an edited replacement from matching during dictation.
• Custom command patterns created in the Pattern Manager's advanced mode now carry the whole-utterance-only setting through save and edit correctly.
• The installer now logs Start-menu and desktop shortcut creation loudly and always writes its setup log, so a failed shortcut is visible instead of silent.

Changed

• The help document was regenerated against the current release, and the unused api_key line was removed from the shipped configuration template (the AI server credential is read only from the WHEELHOUSE_AI_API_KEY environment variable).

WheelHouse 1.0.1

WheelHouse 1.0.1

First release with the graphical installer: download WheelHouse-Setup.exe below, double-click it, and follow the wizard. The PowerShell one-liner in INSTALL.md still works and installs the same thing.

The download is unsigned in this release, so Windows SmartScreen shows a warning ("Windows protected your PC"). Click More info, then Run anyway. INSTALL.md documents this.

Added

• Graphical installer: WheelHouse-Setup.exe, a click-through setup wizard that runs the PowerShell installer for you. Built and attached to each release automatically.
• Installer AI setup step: choose whether to enable the AI text-correction and help features and which server they use. The installer writes the server settings into config.toml and stores the API key in your user environment (never in a file); uninstalling removes the stored key, and re-running the installer preserves an existing AI setup by default.
• Installer options for unattended runs (-SttProvider, -AutoStart, -StartNow, machine-readable progress output) -- these are what the graphical wizard uses to drive the install without console prompts.
• "pattern manager" is now accepted as a spoken trigger for the Pattern Manager, alongside "x-ray patterns".

Fixed

• Speech-engine fallback now resolves to the local Parakeet engine instead of cloud Google STT when the configured provider is unavailable -- audio no longer leaves the machine unless you explicitly chose a cloud engine.
• The AI API key is read from the environment, not from config.toml, so a shared or backed-up config file cannot leak it.
• Removed a misleading warning about cloud AI endpoints whose URL does not end in /v1.
• Dictation now uses the fast caret-position read it was designed to use, instead of always taking the slow fallback path.
• Quieter logs: per-keystroke and per-word diagnostic lines no longer repeat at INFO level during normal dictation.
• Corrected stale voice-command names and examples in the in-app help.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

WheelHouse 1.0.0

First release. Install by running install-wheelhouse.ps1 (see INSTALL.md). The archive sha256 is a1adcc17430b63306ca95379d0a32a4dc1de1134e297b2069ee09fbd7e10d04d; the stamped installer verifies it before unpacking.