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TypeWhisper 1.4 release candidate adds unified workflows, system-wide dictation, and support for ten transcription engines on macOS

TypeWhisper 1.4 release candidate adds unified workflows, system-wide dictation, and support for ten transcription engines on macOS

3 Key Points

  1. TypeWhisper 1.4 is the current release-candidate line for macOS, featuring system-wide dictation, file transcription, unified workflows, history, dictionary, snippets, and bundled integrations. Advanced surfaces like HTTP API, CLI, widgets, watch folders, and plugin SDK remain supported.

  2. Transcription can run on-device using WhisperKit (99+ languages, streaming, translation), Parakeet TDT v3 (25 European languages), Apple SpeechAnalyzer (macOS 26+), Granite Speech, Qwen3 ASR, Voxtral, or via cloud APIs from Groq, OpenAI, xAI/Grok, and OpenAI-compatible providers. Workflows enable reusable transformations (translation, rewriting, extraction, formatting) triggered per-app, per-website, by hotkey, or globally.

  3. New in 1.3: Unified Workflows consolidate prompt actions and matching rules in a native editor; Always Fallback Trigger runs a global workflow when no specific app or website workflow matches; Manual Workflow Palette keeps workflows out of automatic dictation and runs them from a global shortcut; Safer Prompt Boundaries treat dictated text as source content to transform, not instructions; Focus-Safe Local Processing preserves focus in the original target app during on-device workflows.

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