Changelog

Every release, newest first. Updates are delivered automatically - Dictera checks for them in the background and installs signed, notarized builds.

0.9.4

Reminders, in the notch. Add one by typing or by saying it, and tick it off with a click. And the notch can now sit at the bottom of the screen, or anywhere you put it.

New

• Reminders, beside the AI Assistant in the notch - your reminders from the Reminders app: what's due today, what's scheduled, every list, and what you completed lately. Type one in - "Call Anna tomorrow at 5" - and it's set for then. Tick it off, or move it to later with a click. They stay in Reminders, so your iPhone and Apple Watch get them too.
• Add a Reminder by voice - press ⌃⌥⌘R in any app, say what to remember and when, and press it again, or hold the keys while you speak. The notch shows what it understood, with Undo, and another time is a click away. It understands English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
• When a reminder is due, a card drops out of the notch with Done, and Snooze for 10 minutes, an hour or tomorrow morning.
• A Reminders widget for Home: what's due today, a tick away.
• The notch at the bottom - choose Bottom in Settings ▸ Notch ▸ Appearance ▸ Position, and the notch rises from the top of the Dock, or from the bottom edge of the screen. Rest the pointer on the middle of the bottom edge to open it.
• Or anywhere - choose Free, drag the notch by its top to any spot on the screen, and it stays there. It opens when you press its shortcut, ⌥⌘I.
• Diagrams in answers - when a picture explains it better, Chat and Assist answer with a diagram, drawn on this Mac. Click it to see it full size; copy it as a picture, or copy its code.
• Tables in answers are drawn as tables, not as rows of | characters.

Changes

• In a long Chat, ⌥⌘↑ and ⌥⌘↓ - or the arrows at its top - go from question to question, and a button takes you back to the latest message. Chat opens where you left off reading.
• Code in an answer has a Copy button of its own.
• ⇧↩ starts a new line in a Chat question.
• When Claude is slow to answer, Chat and the AI Assistant say so while it tries again, and give up after a minute of silence instead of five, saying why: overloaded, rate-limited or not responding.

Fixes

• During a Google Meet call in Chrome - or in any app that turns on voice processing for the microphone - Assist, Meeting Notes and dictation could hear only silence from the built-in microphone. They hear you again.
• A call starting or ending while Dictera was listening could stop its microphone until you started again. It now carries on.

Good to know

• Reminders asks for access when you click Connect to Reminders, on its page in the notch. Until then ⌃⌥⌘R does nothing, and takes nothing from other apps.
• When a reminder is due, the Reminders app shows its own notification too.

0.9.3

More of your Mac, in the notch. Four new pages and two new tools, and Home reaches the lock screen.

New in the notch

• Downloads, right of the camera - the files arriving in the folders you choose, and the ones still downloading, with how long is left. Click one to open it, or drag it into any app. While a download runs, a ring on the notch shows how far along it is. Turn it on from its page or in Settings ▸ Notch ▸ Downloads.
• Displays - the brightness and power of every display, an external monitor's too, with Night Shift, True Tone and Sleep Displays. The brightness keys now change the display the pointer is on.
• Wallpaper - Apple's still pictures, its colors and your own pictures or folders, a click from your desktop, on every display or one. Shuffle picks one for you, now or on a schedule.
• Notifications - banners from your other apps can drop out of the notch instead of the corner of the screen, and the bell keeps every one since Dictera started, the unread ones marked. Off until you turn it on in Settings ▸ Notch ▸ Notifications.
• Camera Mirror - a floating mirror of your camera, to check how you look before a call. Rectangle, square or circle, three sizes, and the camera's video effects.
• Lock Screen - locks this Mac with a click. Whenever it's locked, your Home widgets appear under the clock and keep working.
• Clean Screen, in Lock Keyboard's menu, blacks out every display as well as locking the keyboard, so you can wipe both. Hold Esc to finish.
• Six new widgets for Home: Downloads, Displays, Wallpaper, Camera Mirror, Lock Screen and Notifications.

Changes

• The gear in the notch opens Settings at the settings of the page you're on.
• Keep Awake no longer shows on the closed notch; its cup in the row of tools says it's on.
• The Downloads alert is now Say When a Download Finishes, in Settings ▸ Notch ▸ Downloads, for every folder Downloads watches.
• Settings is organized by feature: the Notch pane has a page for each part of the notch, and Dictation and Selected Text have panes of their own.
• Language lists in Settings, the AI Assistant and Meetings are in alphabetical order of the names you read, in your language.
• Dictera is about a third smaller to download, and takes half the space once installed.

Fixes

• SenseVoice transcribes dictations of five seconds or more correctly: Chinese no longer comes back empty, and Japanese and Korean no longer garbled. Dictations over 30 seconds no longer fail.
• After a menu or card in the notch closes, your next click is no longer lost.
• The AI Assistant panel and the translation window stay above other apps' floating panels.
• System Monitor's app icons fill their place instead of a corner of it.
• Before you pick a speech model, Quick Controls ticks the one dictation uses, and About Dictera's diagnostics name it.

Good to know

• Things have moved in Settings. Speech Model, Recording (once Voice), Vocabulary, Cleanup, Translation, History and Statistics are pages of Settings ▸ Dictation, and Settings ▸ History keeps your AI Assistant sessions.
• Camera Mirror asks for the camera the first time it opens. The camera is on only while the mirror is on screen.

0.9.2

Weather is in the notch. 0.9.0 and 0.9.1 both went out without Apple Weather, so the Weather page, its button and its widget were missing. They're all here now, and a Weather widget you had on Home shows again. The first time, choose Use My Location, or Choose a Town… to pick one.

0.9.1

Meant to bring Weather back, but built without Apple Weather like 0.9.0, so nothing you can see changed. The next release brings it.

0.9.0

Dictera now lives in the notch. Point at the notch at the top of your screen and it opens: Home and its widgets, Chat, Meetings, Dictate and 18 everyday tools, a click away from whatever app you're in. Move the pointer away and it closes. You can also press ⌥⌘I, or choose Open Notch in the menu bar.

Your Mac doesn't need a notch. On a display without one - an external monitor, or a Mac that has none - Dictera draws a stand-in notch at the top of the screen that works the same way, and you can switch to the Pill shape instead. Updating doesn't show you around, so a few things are no longer where you left them: Quick Controls, Chat and your meetings are in the notch now, and the table at the end lists everything that moved. Everything in the notch goes through every tool.

The notch

• Home - the notch's first page, a dashboard of widgets for what you use most. It starts with Now Playing, Weather, Up Next, Dictate, Timer, Stopwatch, Keep Awake and Clipboard. Edit Widgets adds any of the 22 widgets, removes them, reorders them and changes their size.
• 18 everyday tools, so small jobs don't need an app switch. Click one for the usual thing, and hold a tool such as Screenshot or Timer for its options.
  • Music & sound: Music, Recognize Song and Microphone
  • Capture: Screenshot, Screen Recording and Color Picker
  • Time: Timer and Stopwatch
  • Everyday: Clipboard, Calculator, Emoji, Weather and Apps
  • This Mac: Keep Awake, Lock Keyboard, Focus, Battery and System Monitor
• Alerts drop out of the notch for a few seconds: plugging the charger in or out, a full or low battery, AirPods and headphones connecting, Caps Lock, a drive or card with its eject button, and - once you turn it on - a finished download. Point at one to keep it there. Settings ▸ Notch ▸ Alerts chooses which ones you get.
• Volume and brightness - the keys show their level in the notch instead of the macOS pop-up. Brightness works on the built-in display.
• While it's closed, a small strip around the notch shows what's going on, one thing at a time: the song playing, a timer or the stopwatch, the minutes to your next meeting, a screen recording. Point at it for more.
• Hide from screen sharing, in one place. The eye in the open notch decides whether screen shares and recordings see the notch and the AI Assistant panel. Both start hidden - even if you had let shares see the panel in 0.8.5 - and the eye turns red while they're visible. Your notes and chats stay out of your screen share either way: Chat and Meetings stay out of screen shares and recordings, and the notch keeps out too while it asks about a meeting or the AI Assistant is listening. This holds for apps that respect the window privacy setting in macOS.
• Any display. Each display without a notch gets a stand-in, drawn where a notch would be. It shows the same strip and opens the same notch, and the notch opens on the display you're working on. Rather keep the menu bar in sight? In Settings ▸ Notch ▸ Appearance, Shape: Notch grows out of the top edge of the screen, Pill floats just below the menu bar.
• Keep it out of the way. In Settings ▸ Notch, turn off Hover to Open and the notch opens only when you click it, or turn off Show Over Full-Screen Apps and it stays out of full-screen videos, games and presentations.

Dictation

• Dictation shows on the notch. Live level bars and the time, in the colour of what you're doing - white for plain dictation, green when cleanup runs, purple for a translation, amber for a voice edit - then a tick once the text is in. A badge names the language, or the pair for a translation. Point at it to stop or cancel. Turning off Show Dictation on the Notch in Settings ▸ Notch brings back the floating indicator.
• Click to dictate. Dictate is the first tool in the notch: click it to dictate into the app you're in, and click again to stop. The notch never takes the focus, so your cursor stays where it was. The Dictate widget on Home does the same.
• Quick Controls is a page of the notch, no longer a panel in the middle of the screen. Hold Dictate, or press ⌥⌘C as before. Its six tiles switch Dictate, Translate Dictation, Cleanup, Correct Selection, Edit Selection and Translate Selection on or off; Speech, Cleanup and Translation pick each one's model; your pinned languages stay at the top; and the Ask Dictera… row takes you to Chat.
• Translate Selection comes out of the notch on a card, with the original dimmed underneath and the translation already on the clipboard. Its window is kept for when the notch can't show the card.
• Mute every microphone at once. Click Microphone in the notch and every app hears silence - a call in one app, another in the browser, and your own dictation, which the notch then warns you about. Hold it to choose the microphone you dictate with and to see which apps are listening now. ⌥⇧⌘M does the same from any app once you switch it on in Settings ▸ Shortcut.
• Parakeet Ultra 0.6B replaces Parakeet TDT v3. It is NVIDIA's Parakeet v3, retrained by Moondream for higher accuracy across the same 25 languages, at the same speed. If you used Parakeet TDT v3, Dictera moves you to Ultra: your first dictation after the update asks you to download it (632 MB) and opens Settings ▸ Speech Model. The old model's files stay until you remove them there, since other apps may use them too.
• On macOS 27, Settings ▸ General lists a new permission, Paste from Other Apps. With it, Dictera puts your clipboard back after it pastes what you said; without it, your words stay on the clipboard.

AI Assistant

• Chat and Meetings are pages in the notch. Chat is a typed conversation with your AI engine: add a capture of the screen or paste a picture with ⌘V, dictate into the field, start over with New Chat, and find earlier ones in Chat History. Meetings lists the day's meetings, a day at a time, with Record a Meeting, Meeting History and each meeting's Notes, Transcript and Setup. Your earlier chats and meetings are there.
• Ask Dictera opens Chat. Double-tap right ⇧ (or your own Ask Dictera shortcut) and the notch opens on Chat with the cursor in the field. The answer continues the conversation on the page instead of starting a new session; New Chat starts a fresh one. A call the assistant is recording keeps running.
• Assist stays a panel, and is now the only thing in it - no tabs. ⌥⌘H still shows and hides it, and so does the AI Assistant button in the notch's top row, after Chat and Meetings. Hold that button to start Assist or Meeting Notes listening. While Assist listens, the notch shows it and for how long; point at it to mute your side, open the panel or stop.
• A countdown on the notch for the last 5 minutes before each meeting, once your calendar is connected. Point at it to join the call, when it has one, or to record it. Whether to record a meeting is now asked out of the notch, with the call's Join button, and the notch says when the notes are ready - instead of a window and Notification Center banners. Both are in Settings ▸ Notch ▸ Meetings and AI Assistant.
• Record a Meeting - record one nobody scheduled, from the Meetings page, or from any app with ⌥⇧⌘R once you switch that shortcut on in Settings ▸ Shortcut. Press it again to stop and write the meeting up. While a meeting records, the menu bar offers Stop Meeting Notes. ⌥⌘L now starts and stops Assist only.
• 15 panel shortcuts, down from 18. The three tab shortcuts went with the tabs, and Answer / Summarize is now just Answer. They also work on the Meetings page.
• The Claude Code CLI engine offers Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5. An engine set to Opus 5 or Sonnet 5 moves to the matching new model by itself.
• The AI Assistant is no longer marked Beta.

Privacy

Speech is recognized on your Mac and never uploaded. Online features send only what they need, to the service that needs it, and each can be switched off. What goes where, and when.

• Two settings now start off: answering questions automatically, and sending attendee names from your calendar to remote AI engines. If you never changed them, they are off after this update; one you switched on yourself stays on. Turn them back on with Answer questions automatically in Settings ▸ AI Assistant (or Auto in the panel), and Send attendee names to remote engines in Settings ▸ Calendar.
• An unanswered meeting countdown no longer starts a recording. "Ask, then record" is now "Ask whether to record": only Record now starts one, and if you don't answer, nothing is recorded. The "If I don't answer" setting is gone. If you relied on it, choose Record automatically under Before a meeting starts in Settings ▸ Calendar.
• Keep Sessions For - choose how long saved AI Assistant sessions stay: 30 days, 90 days, 1 year, or forever, which is still the default. It counts from the last time a session was used, never deletes one that is open or recording, and asks before a shorter choice deletes anything. It's in Settings ▸ AI Assistant beside Save Assistant Sessions, and in Settings ▸ History ▸ Assistant Sessions.
• Find Cover Art Online. For a song streamed from Apple Music, the notch looks up its cover in the Apple Music catalog, which sees the title and artist, and your region. Switch it off in Settings ▸ Notch ▸ Music; songs in your library show their own cover either way.
• Privacy Details. About Dictera ▸ Privacy Details… lists every way Dictera reaches the network, worked out from your settings as they are now: what stays on this Mac, where each AI engine's text goes, which online features are on, and what Dictera itself asks for.
• Your license key moves to the Keychain, with the activation for this Mac and the email you bought it with - out of the plain preferences file 0.8.5 kept them in. It happens at the first launch without going online, so you stay activated. If you go back to 0.8.5 after updating, you'll need to enter the key again.
• Dictera no longer writes what you say, type or select to the macOS system log in readable form. Dictated text, selected text and spoken edit instructions are now redacted there.

Trial

The notch is part of the 14-day trial and of a subscription, like the rest of Dictera. Every feature is unlocked while you try Dictera. When the trial or a subscription ends, the notch, dictation and the AI Assistant stop until you subscribe; everything you saved stays on your Mac. The notch still opens, onto a page that says what has ended and leads to Settings ▸ License: Unlock Dictera… or Resubscribe…, and Enter License Key… if you already have one. A saved meeting still opens, in a window of its own.

Moved or removed

The menu bar keeps what the notch can't do: Open Notch, Show AI Assistant, a Stop item while something records, Settings and the app itself.

Open the tour again any time: choose Welcome to Dictera… in the menu bar.

0.8.5

New

• Pin the languages you actually use. Quick Controls (⌥⌘C) lists every language Dictera handles, and the two or three you work in were scattered somewhere down the alphabet - every switch was a scroll. Click the pin beside a language and it moves to the top, under Pinned. One set covers all three lists: pin Ukrainian once and it is at the top whether you are choosing what you speak, what a dictation is translated into, or what a selection comes back as. Each list shows only the languages it can offer, so a pin your speech model doesn't cover stays out of the spoken list - and stays pinned for when you switch back.

Improvements

• Pinning never moves a row out from under you. The pin fills where you clicked it and the list stays exactly as it was; the new order is there the next time you open it.

0.8.4

Fixes

• "Continue listening" could leave a capture that never heard anything. It is the one button pressed seconds after the Stop it undoes, and starting again while the old session was still unwinding produced a recording that looked alive - the chip said Listening, the timer counted up - while no sound reached the transcriber and the transcript never grew. Bringing the microphone and the system tap up, and taking them down again, now happens one at a time, in the order you pressed things.
• The panel acts on the first click. It is used over the call it is transcribing, so it spends most of a meeting without focus - and macOS swallows the first click into an unfocused window. Mute, Stop and the tabs needed pressing twice. Now the first click is the only one you need.
• A session stays on the day it happened. Reopening Tuesday's call today - to re-read it, ask one more question, or write it up at last - moved it to the top of the list under Today. The list now sorts and groups by when a session began, the time in each row is its start, and a series' open action items are dated by the meeting rather than by the moment somebody summarized it.
• A meeting's length is the meeting's length. Settings ▸ History timed a session from its start to its last activity, so a half-hour call summarized two days later read as two days long. A recording is now measured by what was said in it. The same mistake had old sessions offering themselves up when you attached a recording to today's calendar events; they no longer do.

Improvements

• A Start that has to wait - on a session still unwinding, or on a speech model still downloading - says "Preparing speech recognition…" the moment you press it, instead of leaving the button looking like it missed the press.

0.8.3

New

• Resize the assistant panel - it used to be a fixed rectangle. Drag any edge, drag the dividers between the session list, the conversation and the result, or take the conversation away entirely (⌥⌘T) and give a long write-up the whole window. The size you chose and the spot you dragged the panel to come back next launch, and ⋯ ▸ Reset panel layout puts everything back.
• Every meeting keeps its own setup - shape, output, guests, role and background belong to the session now, not to the app. Last month's town hall keeps its forty people when you reopen it, and setting up a one-off no longer overwrites the standup list you typed once. Settings ▸ AI Assistant holds what new meetings start from; "Save as my defaults" sends a session's setup back there, "Use my defaults" drops it.
• Edit an answer by hand - fix a misheard name, drop a line, add what the model missed, instead of regenerating the nine-tenths that were already right. The model's own words are kept, so Revert still works in a session reopened next week, and anything you changed is disclosed as edited by hand when you copy or save it. Search, the refinement chips and a series' open action items all read your version.
• When a recording runs on - Dictera now offers to stop a recording that has outlived the meeting it belongs to, or one that has been running for hours with nothing scheduled. One minute and one button: Keep recording buys another hour, and the write-up is made either way. Settings ▸ Calendar - and the long-session half works without a calendar connected.
• Paste a picture into a question - ⌘V an image from the clipboard into the panel or the Ask Dictera bar and ask about it: the screenshot you already took with ⌘⇧4, a diagram, a photo. Up to four can travel with one question, and Ask Dictera can now take its own capture too.
• Pick what the Capture button photographs - the whole screen or just the window in front, chosen from the button's own popup and remembered. Whole screens for a call, one window for a coding task.
• Search marks what it matched - the session list, transcripts, answers and templates paint the characters your search found. Matching follows the same rule as Finder, so "resume" finds "résumé" and "OKR" finds "okr".
• Sessions say where their name comes from - a running capture reads "Recording - named when the meeting ends" rather than borrowing a name it is about to lose, and says "Summarizing…" while the name is being written. A recorded session now gets named even if you never asked it for an answer.

Improvements

• Your microphone now starts on in Assist and Meeting Notes - your own voice is in the call from the first word, and one click mutes it. It used to start muted everywhere, which in a notetaker meant your own commitments never reached the action items.
• Stopping a meeting produces whatever that meeting is set to - the notes, full minutes, the transcript or chapters - instead of always the notes. One answer to "what do I get from this meeting" rather than two.
• Dictation now fits itself into Slack, VS Code, Notion, Discord and Teams. Chromium-based apps expose no text to Accessibility until an assistive client asks for it, so the spacing and capitalization at the insertion point had been guessing blind in most chat apps and most editors.
• A screenshot can be removed from a conversation, including one whose picture never came back.
• The panel returns to the spot you last dragged it to, on the display you left it on, and falls back to its default corner when that monitor is gone.
• Binding a meeting from the calendar no longer files the session under a series by itself. Which event this is and which series you file it under are different questions, and a label that appears on its own is one you have to notice before you can undo it - filing stays yours, through the Recurring series field, the row's label picker or the model's suggestion chip. Meeting titles are no longer copied into your preferences file as a side effect.
• All of the above is localized in every supported language.

Fixes

• The countdown before a meeting could appear up to a minute late and then run its full length from there, so recording began after the call had already started. It now fires at exactly the lead time and counts down to the meeting's own start.
• Two meetings that touch: the second one's countdown is no longer lost while the first is still recording, and a Mac that slept through a meeting's end stops the recording instead of counting down to a deadline that passed hours ago.
• Removing a line from a conversation - a screenshot you deleted, or an echo of the other side the app takes back - no longer shifts what the engine has already been shown, which could leave the next question missing a line.
• Switching the answer language or changing a meeting's setup now starts a fresh engine session instead of continuing one that was fixed under the old instructions.
• A cancelled or failed request leaves its lines still owing rather than marking them delivered, so nothing is silently dropped from what the model sees next time.

0.8.2

New

• Calendar - connect your calendar and a recording knows which meeting it belongs to, and who else was in it. Everything is read from the accounts already set up in Calendar - iCloud, Google, Outlook and Exchange - so there is no second sign-in. Read-only: Dictera never writes an event.
• Before a meeting starts - a countdown appears shortly before each meeting and asks whether to record it. Left unanswered it starts recording: a meeting you didn't record is gone, one you didn't want is a click to delete. Set it the other way, or off, per calendar or for one meeting series. Skip the same meeting twice and Dictera stops asking about that one.
• The day's meetings - the session list can show the day's agenda, marking what was recorded, what is still coming and what was missed, with a month grid for reaching any other day.
• Ask Dictera - double-tap right ⇧ for a single field in the middle of the screen. Type the question or dictate it, press Return, and the answer opens in the assistant's Chat tab as a new session. A call the assistant is recording keeps running.
• Recurring series - file a session under the meeting it repeats - Daily, Refinement, Customer interviews - and a year of them stays findable as one set. Filter the session list by series, rename and recolour them, and let a template or a calendar series file new sessions for you.
• What a series still owes - every open action item across every meeting in a series, gathered from notes you already have. No model runs, and it says so when some meetings couldn't be read.
• Label or delete several sessions at once - press and hold a session in the list to start ticking, then file the batch under a series or delete it in one go.
• Capture Front Window - screenshot the window in front instead of the whole screen. A 5K desktop reaches the model with about a tenth of its pixels and its text turns to grey texture; the same budget spent on one window is text the model can read.
• Meeting button makes - pick what the Meeting tab's button produces: the notes, full minutes, the transcript or chapters. Stopping a meeting still always writes the notes.

Improvements

• Two tabs can record the same call at once - start Meeting Notes while Assist is listening and the call is transcribed into both, each in its own session.
• Open another session while an answer is generating and the answer still lands in the session that asked for it. The session you moved to says an answer is finishing elsewhere rather than showing a spinner that isn't its own.
• Sessions can be renamed in place in the list, without opening them.
• Quick Controls say which language each feature will use, and the recording indicator names the language it is transcribing in.
• Attendee names read from your calendar reach a remote engine only while Send attendee names to remote engines is on - and it was on by default. Email addresses are never stored at all.
• Screenshots come back with a reopened session at the size they were taken, and the viewer shows that size.
• "Claude Code" is now "Claude Code CLI", so the engine that runs on your Mac isn't mistaken for a Claude model reached over an API.
• All of the above is localized in every supported language.

Fixes

• Panel tooltips that pair a name with its shortcut appeared in English whatever the interface language was.
• The Claude Code CLI engine no longer collects a process's output on a lower-priority thread than the one waiting for it, which macOS reports as a hang risk.

0.8.1

New

• Quick Controls - one shortcut opens a compact panel in the middle of the screen for the things you change mid-flow: switch the speech model, change the spoken language, toggle cleanup. No trip to Settings.
• Screenshot viewer - open any screenshot you've sent to the assistant at full size, zoom and pan it, fit it to the window or view it actual-size, then copy or save it.
• Screenshots are kept with the session - reopening a saved conversation brings its pictures back. Storage is capped and the oldest are cleared automatically.
• Model updates - when a newer version of a model you have installed is published, Dictera offers it, verifies it before installing, and reclaims the space of the one it replaces.
• Downloads resume - an interrupted model download picks up where it stopped instead of starting over.
• Connectors, in detail - connector tools are discovered in the background, listed per server, and granted individually. Tools that can change things rather than only read them are marked as such.

Improvements

• Dictated text now fits its surroundings better - Dictera looks at what's immediately before the caret and joins on correctly instead of doubling a space or a full stop.
• Correcting selected text is context-aware: an unchanged result is left alone rather than pasted over itself, and switching apps mid-correction is handled cleanly.
• The translation indicator names the language it's translating into.
• The AI Assistant now needs a subscription once your trial ends, like the rest of the app. During the 14-day trial everything is unlimited. Saved sessions stay readable and exportable either way.

Removed

• Qwen3-ASR is no longer available - the framework Dictera uses for on-device speech removed the engine, so no version of the app can both keep it and take any further update. If you had it selected you'll be moved to Apple Speech Analyzer and offered its disk space back.

0.7.1

New

• Meeting Notes - a second mode for the AI Assistant: it listens to the call and writes it up. Summary, decisions and action items when you press Stop, or any time with the summarize button. The same session can also be produced as Full minutes, a cleaned-up Transcript in the language it was spoken, or Chapters - a timeline of what was discussed when.
• The notes take the shape of the session - a lecture has no decisions and no owners; a meeting does. Left on automatic, each session is read for what it is - meeting, lecture or talk, one-on-one, interview, sales call - and the notes say which shape they used, so a wrong guess is one change away.
• Meeting Setup - name the other participants, who you are, and any background, and an action item can say who owns it. The setup is kept between meetings.
• Chat - a third mode: a plain typed conversation with the model, with no audio captured at all.
• Session list - a sidebar of your conversations for the current mode, searchable and renameable. Reopening one brings its mode back, and the session that is still recording is marked as such.
• One-press rewrites - an answer can be made Shorter or Simpler, or given More detail or an Example. Notes can be cut down to Action items, reorganized By topic, or turned into a Recap email, Key terms or a Study guide.
• Answer and Listen hotkeys - ⌥⌘A answers the last question and ⌥⌘L starts or stops listening, from any app, so you never have to click into the panel. In Meeting Notes, Answer writes the notes instead.
• Every panel shortcut is editable, grouped as Actions, Navigation and Display, with Restore Panel Defaults to undo your changes.
• Cancel speaker echo - the microphone pauses while the other side is coming out of your speakers, so they aren't transcribed a second time. On by default, and it arms itself only when you're on loudspeakers.
• Claude Code as an engine - the assistant can talk about your actual project: Claude reads the folder you choose before answering. It can read and search the folder, never change it, and it can also search and open web pages. Tick exactly which connector tools it may use, and run a Health Check to see what the folder can reach.
• A model and a language per mode - Assist, Meeting Notes and Chat each pick their own engine, switchable from the panel's toolbar too.
• Compact mode - a smaller panel for when it has to share the screen with a call.
• Save as Markdown… for notes, minutes, transcript and chapters, plus copy buttons for each of them and for a single answer.
• Context Window per remote model - Test Connection fills it in when the server reports it. Getting it right is what lets a long meeting be summarized in as few passes as possible.

Improvements

• A long meeting no longer stops at the model's limit - the transcript is read in passes, the panel says which pass it's on, and the result says when it covers only the most recent stretch.
• A conversation that outgrows the model's context window now says so, and points at where to set a larger one.
• Your microphone starts muted in every mode. Turn Mic on when your own voice should be part of the notes; the panel shows which state you're in.
• The panel says what the engine is doing while you wait - reading a file, searching the project, fetching a page, running a command.
• Screen-sharing visibility is now a button in the panel itself: one click to hide the window from capture or bring it back.
• Answer text can be made bigger or smaller and reset again.
• Pick which output device the other participants are captured from - the one you actually hear the call on (e.g. your AirPods), or System Default.
• All of the above is localized in every supported language.

Fixes

• Dictation into Dictera's own text fields - the assistant's chat box, Settings - now inserts the text there instead of sending it to whatever app sits behind the panel.

0.6.4

• An Open Settings global hotkey.
• A reworked onboarding flow, with live "try it" fields that confirm each step worked.
• Interface and localization updates throughout.

0.6.2

• Edit Selection - select text in any app, hold a key, and say the change you want. The rewrite lands in place, one undo away.
• History gained searchable Assistant Sessions.

0.6.1

• The first AI Assistant: a floating panel with a global hotkey, system audio capture, and reusable session templates.

0.5.1

• Correct Selection and Translate Selection - fix or translate text you've already written, in any app.

Earlier

• 0.4.x - bring your own AI: connect Ollama, LM Studio, or any OpenAI-compatible server, per feature.
• 0.3.x - additional speech models, dictation reliability work, and the first tutorials.

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