v0.54.0
Latest for macOS
Features
- Add Fast and Accurate models to DuckType Cloud. Fast is the lowest-latency option. Accurate uses GPT Transcribe and holds up in background noise, strong accents, and technical vocabulary. Both support live streaming dictation, and the previous model stays available as Batch (Legacy).
- Default DuckType Cloud to Accurate. Existing installs move across once, and Fast and Batch stay selectable in Settings, during onboarding, on the dictations page, and in the expanded DuckType bar.
- Simplify the dictations header into a single model picker beside the Record button, showing the provider and model you are dictating with. Its menu holds the provider, a slider between the DuckType Cloud speeds, the spoken language, the AI provider behind styles and skills, and a switch for AI Edit.
- Add a provider picker to the meetings header, so meeting transcription and meeting AI are chosen on the page they affect.
- Lighten the dictations header. Auto mode moved into the Record menu with its presets and per-dictation skills. Search, sort, and filter no longer hold a permanent row: search opens from the header, the title bar, or the find shortcut, and sort moved into the overflow menu. Your speaking pace for the day now sits next to the Dictations title.
- Declutter dictation rows. The Style, Skill, and Speech badges no longer sit under every dictation. Restyle, Run skill, and Read aloud moved into the hover action bar, grouped into playback, text, and overflow. The style pill still appears when a dictation used something other than your default style.
- Move dictation lists onto their own page, opened from the dictations overflow menu. Click a list to filter the feed to it, with a breadcrumb showing where you are, and the list is part of the address so the back button works.
- Put search in the middle of the title bar, replacing the word counts and time saved, which are still on the Statistics page. When microphone or accessibility access is missing, that warning takes the slot instead.
- Collapse cancelled dictations into a single expandable card with a bulk delete action, matching failed and empty dictations. The empty dictations notice can now be dismissed.
- Add an optional hidden macOS text input helper for live dictation previews without changing the active keyboard source, with guided macOS authorization and a native drag-and-drop Accessibility setup panel.
- Add accurate, phrase-aware Jyutping romanization for Cantonese dictation.
- Change the default AI Edit trigger phrase to "Run AI". Existing trigger phrases are left alone, and AI Edit is no longer marked experimental.
- Simplify the display menu. Zoom moved into a submenu showing the current level with a "Reset to 100%" item, and colour themes moved into their own submenu with previews. The input device picker, overlay toggle, and screen sharing privacy toggle are gone. Choose your microphone in Settings, Dictation, Audio, or from the recording panel, and screen sharing privacy stays in Settings, General, Appearance.
- Move "Transcribe files" and "Add dictation from text" to the top of the Record menu.
- Show the audio duration and model badges only when Stats for nerds is enabled. The model badge still appears on its own for dictations that are pending, running, failed, cancelled, or fell back to another provider.
- Remove starred dictations. The star button, its menu action, the S hover shortcut, the selection bar button, and the Starred only filter are all gone, and existing star marks are discarded. Use lists to keep dictations you want to come back to.
- Remove reading mode, since the default dictations list is now clean enough without it.
- Remove the Edit previous button.