Refreshed dictation widget

Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT
v0.2.0, improvement

The dictation widget has a new pill design with unified chrome across recording, refining, and error states. The refining state cycles through what the model is doing (tidying, formatting, applying your tone) instead of showing a generic spinner, and errors now surface inline on the pill rather than as a separate alert.

The pill and its tooltip are now separate panels, so hovering for shortcut hints no longer disturbs the recording animation.

Mic-level waveform: The waveform is shaped as a center-out FM sine bulge that responds to your voice, and now stays visible for the entire recording rather than being toggleable. The toggle has been removed from settings.

Onboarding model picker: A new step asks whether you want Remote (faster, more accurate, requires an internet connection) or Local processing before you reach the hotkey setup.

Hotkey recorder: Capture race conditions on fast multi-key presses are fixed, and the virtual keyboard now tints multi-combo bindings so each key in the combo is visible at a glance.