Release notes
Version history.
The useful changes in every shipped ShoutOut update, newest first.
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ShoutOut 0.1.11
Latest
- Returns to the text field where dictation began and retries pasting if another app takes focus while your words are processing.
ShoutOut 0.1.10
- Prevents false “thank you” or “thanks” endings after trailing silence while preserving words you actually spoke.
- Makes casual cleanup more reliably lowercase and unpunctuated, including longer dictations.
ShoutOut 0.1.9
- Input Monitoring setup now reliably opens System Settings when macOS needs manual approval.
- Improves paste reliability in Claude and Discord.
- Avoids protected-folder permission prompts caused by copied files or folders on the clipboard.
ShoutOut 0.1.8
- Adds smoother crab recording animation with a color-matched boom mic and steadier edge placement.
- Installs into your user Applications folder automatically when launched from the DMG.
- Improves quiet or accidental recordings so low-information captures are dropped instead of pasting stray text.
- Refines local language cleanup with compact History tracing, before/after text, and the selected writing tone.
- Fixes settings toggles and context-aware paste polish around spacing and capitalization.
ShoutOut 0.1.7
- Fixes Fn/Globe double-tap so hands-free recordings reliably continue after the second tap.
- Prevents quick double-taps from turning into two short recordings.
- Shows the hands-free recording state immediately after the second tap.
ShoutOut 0.1.6
- Tightens local language cleanup so commands stay commands instead of becoming assistant-style offers or promises.
- Preserves request details such as “me” and avoids dropping leading context like “the diff is.”
- Adds safer quote handling: technical terms can be quoted when useful, while filler quote spam is rejected.
- Expands local model smoke coverage for transcript-derived overreach cases.
ShoutOut 0.1.5
- Improves local language cleanup with a more reliable cleanup model, stricter validation, and visible before/model/after History details.
- Keeps casual cleanup casual while Normal and Formal remove unnecessary speech fillers.
- Fixes short hold-to-record timing so the hold threshold is based on the actual key press.
- Redacts legacy cleanup text from diagnostics and runtime logs.
- Cleans retired local cleanup model caches after updating.
ShoutOut 0.1.4
- Adds an advanced WhisperKit Large v3 Turbo model option for local benchmarking.
- Clarifies the model picker so quality, Turbo, and Fast English choices are easier to compare.
- Tightens casual cleanup around unnecessary filler while preserving meaningful uses of “like.”
ShoutOut 0.1.3
- Adds local language-cleanup visibility in logs and History.
- Improves cleanup of abandoned false starts.
- Warms language cleanup in the background while keeping idle memory lower.
- Tunes shortcut recording timing with a shorter initial hold and tighter double-press window.
ShoutOut 0.1.2
- Local-first macOS dictation update.
- Signed and notarized DMG release.
ShoutOut 0.1.1
- Local-first macOS dictation update.
- Code-signed DMG release.