v0.43.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the recorder failing to work after the Mac wakes from sleep — dictation now recovers automatically
• Fixed clipboard restore timing so your previous clipboard contents are no longer lost or pasted incorrectly when inserting dictated text

Upgrade

brew update && brew upgrade open-wispr && brew services restart open-wispr

v0.42.0

What's New

• Configurable Whisper prompt — you can now provide a custom prompt to guide Whisper's transcription, improving accuracy for domain-specific vocabulary, names, and formatting preferences.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a failure during trust installation when Homebrew encountered errors, so setup now completes reliably.

Upgrade

brew update && brew upgrade open-wispr && brew services restart open-wispr

v0.41.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed audio input device selection not persisting across reboots

Upgrade

brew update && brew upgrade open-wispr && brew services restart open-wispr

v0.40.0: Fix old-clipboard paste race and temp-file collision (#64)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a race condition that could cause your previous clipboard contents to be pasted instead of the transcribed text
• Fixed a temp-file collision that could occur during rapid or concurrent dictation

Upgrade

brew update && brew upgrade open-wispr && brew services restart open-wispr

v0.39.0: Fix mic indicator always on (#62)

v0.39.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed microphone indicator staying on after recording stopped

Upgrade

brew update && brew upgrade open-wispr && brew services restart open-wispr

v0.38.0

What's New

• Support for multiple hotkeys -- assign more than one keyboard shortcut to trigger dictation

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a recording hang when the selected input device matches the system default
• Fixed CLI and Finder launch issues
• App now relaunches correctly from the bundle after updates

Other Changes

• README now clarifies the tradeoffs of quantized models to help with model selection

Upgrade

brew update && brew upgrade open-wispr && brew services restart open-wispr

v0.37.0

v0.37.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a recording hang that occurred when the selected input device matched the system default

Other Changes

• Clarified quantized model tradeoffs in the README to help with model selection

Upgrade

brew update && brew upgrade open-wispr && brew services restart open-wispr

v0.36.0: Migrate modelSize: large to large-v3 (fixes #55) (#56)

v0.36.0

What's New

• Added quantized "lite" model variants (e.g. tiny-lite, base-lite, small-lite) for faster transcription with a smaller memory footprint

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a startup crash for users who had previously selected the large model — configs are now automatically migrated to large-v3

Upgrade

brew update && brew upgrade open-wispr && brew services restart open-wispr

v0.35.0: Rename the missing large model to large-v3 (#53)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the "large" Whisper model option so it correctly downloads large-v3 instead of failing to find the model.

Upgrade

brew update && brew upgrade open-wispr && brew services restart open-wispr

v0.34.0: Add audio input device selection (#47)

open-wispr v0.34.0

What's New

• Audio input device selection -- you can now choose which microphone to use for dictation

Bug Fixes

• Fixed blank audio markers being pasted when no speech was detected

Upgrade

brew update && brew upgrade open-wispr && brew services restart open-wispr