v0.8.0 — Accuracy and reliability

Accuracy first

• Adds a deterministic cleanup-fidelity gate. Meaning-changing edits to openings, pronouns, negation, modality, certainty, conditionals, and excessive lexical wording are rejected in favor of the raw Whisper transcript.
• Prevents failures such as Do some research becoming I should do some research.
• Uses temperature 0 for Groq and Gemini cleanup.
• Defaults new configurations to full whisper-large-v3 and an empty prompt slot.
• Makes Whisper segment filtering conservative so a single unusual diagnostic cannot erase real speech.

Audio and reliability

• Adds Windows Core Audio capture through vendored SoundCard, CFFI, and NumPy dependencies, with safe PortAudio fallback.
• Adds microphone pre-roll, silence trimming, fallback-microphone safeguards, stale-device protection, and recorder shutdown hardening.
• Adds connection reuse/warm-up, faster text insertion, clipboard restoration fixes, and a reliable add-on packaging path.

Validation

• 227 automated tests pass.
• The packaged add-on was inspected for its manifest, plug-in entry point, documentation, and portable forward-slash ZIP paths.

Download the .nvda-addon file below, open it with NVDA, and restart NVDA when prompted.