🎂 Birthdays, 👶 Babies & 🗣️ Better Dictation
Our streak of 22 weekly releases has survived this week
Samuel ROY
May 02, 2025
Hey everyone,
This week was not just another week.
Gaël, our Swift/UI magician turned 40! (He celebrated by fixing the code block wrap bug and handling the big Thursday Google overload)
KĂ©vin, our backend lead, is dad, again! Welcome to the world, little Nathan!
Despite cake, diapers flying around and me gone with family, we refused to miss a release. Here’s the surprise 👇
🆕 Local Whisper Dictation
You asked, we listened: Apple’s built-in dictation was… meh.
Now you can run OpenAI’s Whisper on your Mac—no cloud, no leaks, few mistakes.
Mode | Lives where | Why you’d pick it |
|---|---|---|
Apple Dictation | On-device | No good reason |
Local Whisper | On-device | Accuracy + privacy |
Alter Cloud | Our servers | Long meetings, tough accents, smart formatting, speaker identification |
Try it: Settings → Dictation → pick a model.
(Pro tip: start with Small for speed.)
Why you’ll care
Private: Audio never leaves your laptop.
Offline: Plane, train, cabin—still works.
That’s it. Update Alter, try Whisper, and ping us in Discord if anything breaks.
Others Improvements
User experience
Support for Orion+, LibreWolf, Opera GX, Thorium and Beam browsers
Code block wrapping
New output languages: Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Vietnamese
System & Performance
Improved Dictation and LLMs calls by 500ms all regions
Added a temporary fallback system between OpenAI and VertexAI providers
Bug Fixes
Deleting an action with a global shortcut unbind the shortcut
Force activate app on what input
Trim filename when saving to markdown
Best, Sam
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