Learn how to create advanced Alter Actions

Hey everyone,

this week's video shows you how to build an advanced Alter Action.

We use the example of a meal planner to show you how you can ingest your latest grocery shopping list and create receipts in your calendar to plan your meals.

The meal planner is available here.

We hope you will enjoy it.

🎶 Syclops - Where’s Jason’s K 🎶

Meeting recording improvement

We are also introducing two new improvement regarding audio recording.

Audio quality improvement

We have rebuilt the way we capture audio with Alter.

The audio files generated are now way cleaner, meaning better transcriptions and much nicer to listen to.

A new Cloud Provider

Our cloud provider is now Soniox and their brand new V5 audio engine, where we saw massive jump in quality with our previous providers.

If you are reading this, we have something for you

Look closely at this week's video, and you will notice an unreleased feature of Alter, paving the way to the future of Alter.

We need your help to improve this feature, so if you are interested in having early access, please fill out this form.

Cheers,
Olivier & Sam

Full Changelog

New Features & Enhancements

• Audio capture pipeline: Rebuilt capture for cleaner, more reliable meeting recordings.

• Cloud transcription: Switched to the new Soniox V5 engine for improved cloud transcription quality.

Bug Fixes & Stability

• Meeting history: Fix history saving of meeting recordings.

• Live transcription: Fixed a Whisper live callback deadlock that could stall transcription.

• Dictation cleanup: Ignored dictation cleanup failures so they no longer interrupt workflows.

• Startup reliability: Captured AppKit launch exceptions, removed the placeholder window, and gated hub rendering until explicitly opened.

• Preferences: Sanitized persisted layout values and resolved a runtime concurrency warning.

• Chat rendering: User raw tags now render literally in messages.

• Workspace tools: Fixed Xcode Python shim handling in bash tool execution.

• Notch input: Fixed plain Return key submission from notch input.

• Pasteboard: Fixed a crash when copying to the pasteboard.

• QuickHub shortcuts: Reduced modifier attach sensitivity when opening QuickHub.

• Hub app sense: Refresh app context when focusing the hub.