Every update. Shipped.

Better English accuracy, faster paste

A new English model, a smaller first install, and the last word of your dictation never goes missing again.

• NewNew English model with better accuracy. parakeet-unified-en replaces v3 as the English default, with word error on the LibriSpeech test-other benchmark down from 3.59% to 3.11% at the same speed. Existing installs keep dictating on their current model and can switch anytime in Settings.
• NewTwo models, one on disk by default. Fresh installs download only the English model, about 500 MB instead of 670. Multilingual (25 European languages) is an opt-in in Settings that downloads when you switch, one time, with the size shown up front. Dictation keeps working on your current model until the new one is ready.
• NewReclaim disk space. A downloaded model you no longer use can be removed from Settings, with its real on-disk size shown next to the Remove button.
• ImprovedFaster paste on short dictations. Transcription now starts speculatively the moment you release the key, while a voice-activity watch guards the tail. Short presses land roughly 350 to 490 milliseconds after release.
• ImprovedSpelled acronyms collapse. Saying M, C, P now lands as MCP, and short all-caps dictionary terms match more aggressively.
• FixedTail truncation fixed. Final words and sentence-ending punctuation no longer clip on quiet speech, thanks to capture-buffer and padding fixes plus normalization of quiet recordings.

Parakeet engine overhaul

A new default speech engine, hold-to-talk hotkeys, and a pile of reliability work.

• NewParakeet TDT 0.6B v3 is now the default engine, running on sherpa-onnx at about 6% word error rate. It beats Whisper Large V3 on quality while running roughly 10x faster on CPU, and the silence hallucinations are gone.
• NewTwo-stage bootstrap installer. The .exe ships at about 50 MB and a first-run setup window downloads the Parakeet model into your user folder before the app goes interactive. The model survives every future update.
• NewWhisper is now an opt-in legacy engine, still bundled as the safety net. A Settings toggle exposes the engine switcher for non-European languages, heavy custom dictionaries, and Vulkan GPU acceleration on older NVIDIA cards.
• NewContinue-with-Whisper fallback. If the Parakeet download keeps failing, the setup window offers a button to start on Whisper now and re-download Parakeet later.
• NewEngine-failure fallback. If Parakeet errors mid-transcribe, the app quietly finishes that one transcription on bundled whisper-tiny, then retries Parakeet on the next press so a transient error never demotes you permanently.
• NewHold-to-talk is the default on fresh installs. Press to start recording, release to transcribe. Existing users keep tap-to-toggle, with a quiet banner offering the switch.
• NewConfigurable hotkey. Settings now accepts any single key or modifier combo (Right Ctrl, Caps Lock, F19, and more) via full keydown and keyup events.
• FixedStuck-state escape hatch. A transcription that hangs under heavy load no longer pins the UI on processing forever. Pressing the hotkey or record button aborts it, and a 30-second timeout auto-recovers with a retry prompt.
• FixedHitting the free weekly cap while minimized to the tray now pulls the window to the front instead of rendering the cap modal in a hidden window, which looked like a silent crash.
• ImprovedBulletproof empty-output fix. Input dithering plus retry plus the Whisper fallback drive the rare empty-transcription bug from about 12% down to near zero.
• ImprovedFaster CPU transcription. Parakeet now sizes its thread count to the machine's physical cores.
• ImprovedCleaner formatting. Meridiem-gated time and capitalized-month dates, plus stranded command punctuation stripped from the output.
• ImprovedRefined mic logo across the app icon, the tray and window icon, and the in-app brand mark.
• ImprovedCheckout and pricing copy. The buy button points at the checkout page, and the cap and offer modals now surface the 30-day money-back guarantee with refreshed lifetime framing.

The free tier and polish mode

• NewFree tier. 2,000 words a week with full features, no card and no email. A cap modal handles overage and a one-time offer nudges into the lifetime license.
• NewPolish mode. An optional second hotkey runs your transcript through Llama 3.3 70B for punctuation, capitalization, and vocabulary recovery without paraphrasing your words. It falls back to raw text on any failure.
• NewLaunch on startup. A new Settings toggle starts TypeTalk when you log in.
• FixedThe update toast no longer appears on every launch. A CSS rule was overriding the hidden attribute and showing placeholder text with a Restart button that did nothing. The toast now stays hidden until an update is actually ready.

First public release

Local-first speech-to-text. Press a hotkey, speak, and the text appears at your cursor. Runs 100% locally on Mac and Windows.

• NewGlobal hotkey from anywhere. Default Ctrl+Shift+Space (rebindable), working in Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, email, Notion, Slack, and anywhere else you type.
• NewGPU-accelerated transcription. Vulkan on Windows for 2 to 3x faster inference across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs, and Metal acceleration on macOS.
• NewStreaming partials. A live transcript preview while you talk, with the model kept resident so there is no spawn cost per hotkey press.
• NewBundled tiny and base.en models, so the default setup needs no first-launch download. Larger models pull on demand.
• NewSilero voice activity detection trims silence at the start and end of recordings, falling back to energy-based detection if the Silero model fails to load.
• NewCustom dictionary. Add brand names, project names, and technical terms, and the engine biases toward the spelling you want.
• NewTwo output modes. Paste via clipboard for speed, or simulated keystrokes to keep your clipboard untouched.
• NewHistory panel. Your last 50 transcripts kept locally, with one-click re-paste.
• NewTray icon with show and hide. The app lives in the tray and toggles the main window on click.
• NewMagic-link activation. No password. Enter your email, click the link in your inbox, and the license activates.
• NewAuto-update. New versions install silently in the background and land on restart, or on the next launch if you just close the app.