Two small repairs on the update itself, found the same night 0.9.2 went out.
Fixed
- The bar that announces a new version said the word version twice.
- The check that runs on its own fifteen seconds after a window opens could land in the middle of a download and swap the version being installed. It now waits for the install to finish.
Updates from inside the app, an existing recording turned into text, and the crash that left nothing behind.
New
- The app asks fuckyouflow.app once at every start and shows a bar when a newer version is out. Nothing is downloaded until you press the button on it.
- A recording you already have can be turned into text: Home, Sound file to text. Up to 90 minutes, cut into pieces at the quiet parts.
- When a dictation cannot reach the program you were in, a small window opens with the words, so nothing is lost. It has a switch at the bottom to turn it off, and the same switch lives in Settings, Insertion.
- A graphics card that was left switched off is switched on by itself when the app finds one with a working Vulkan runtime.
Fixed
- The app could die on the spot while reading the clipboard, leaving no message anywhere. It looked for the end of the text as far as 50 million characters ahead, so text placed by another program without a closing marker sent the read past the end of the memory block. It now reads only as far as the block goes.
- The Windows startup entry named whatever copy of the program was running the last time the settings were saved. It is now written at every start.
- The small window with the words had no permission to talk to the app, so its buttons did nothing.
- That same window was painted dark whatever theme you had chosen.
- The Settings page threw away what you were typing if the app changed a setting at the same moment.
- A crash used to leave nothing behind. Panics are written straight to logs\panic.log, and a normal exit writes its own line, so the two can be told apart afterwards.
Changed
- The installer carries its files uncompressed. The download is 1.7 GB and the install writes the files straight out.
- The speech models move to your own data folder the first time the app runs. That is what makes a 70 MB update possible, and they stay there when you uninstall.
A paste that goes nowhere is reported as one, and the interface stops being Greek on the inside.
New
- A fresh install reads the language Windows is set to, once, before there are any settings to overwrite. Both the interface language and the dictation language stay changeable under Settings, Language.
- Settings, Speech models says which device the engine is running on right now and splits its settings into what works the graphics card and what works the processor.
- An event journal is written next to the logs, one line per event, seven days kept. It records what happened and what failed, and never the text you dictate.
Fixed
- The desktop and the taskbar read the clipboard when they receive Ctrl+V, so a transcript sent there looked like a success in every signal the app had while you saw nothing arrive. The app now stops before the keystroke, leaves the text on the clipboard and says which window was in front.
- The model descriptions were written in Greek inside the code, so an English interface still showed Greek text, and an unread settings file fell back to Greek.
The first public release: one key, both languages, everything on your own machine.
New
- Hold the right Alt, speak, press it again. The text lands where your cursor is, in any program. Greek and English, mixed in the same sentence.
- The installer carries everything: the speech engine built with the Vulkan backend, which accelerates on AMD, Intel and NVIDIA cards alike, both speech models and the voice activity detector. Nothing is downloaded later.
- The first start reads the machine and picks the backend, the model that fits the graphics memory and the thread count that fits the processor.
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