This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.
✓ No known CVEs patched in this version
Summary
AI summarySpeaker diarization for meetings now splits multi‑person calls into per‑speaker transcripts using on‑device models.
Changes in this release
| Type | Severity | Summary | CVE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature | Medium |
Adds speaker diarization for meetings, splitting multi-person calls into per‑speaker transcripts using on‑device models. Adds speaker diarization for meetings, splitting multi-person calls into per‑speaker transcripts using on‑device models. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-17 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Adds Safe Voice Edit: select text, press ⌥⇧E, and speak an edit that modifies only the selection. Adds Safe Voice Edit: select text, press ⌥⇧E, and speak an edit that modifies only the selection. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-17 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Adds "As Heard" escape hatch to paste untouched raw transcript from the menubar or History view. Adds "As Heard" escape hatch to paste untouched raw transcript from the menubar or History view. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-17 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Low |
Adds automatic daily update checks against GitHub releases, toggleable in Settings → General. Adds automatic daily update checks against GitHub releases, toggleable in Settings → General. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-17 Confidence: high |
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| Performance | Low |
Improves performance: dictation stop→final ~1.1 s, voice edit ~0.5 s per sentence, diarization ~2 s per audio‑minute on Apple Silicon. Improves performance: dictation stop→final ~1.1 s, voice edit ~0.5 s per sentence, diarization ~2 s per audio‑minute on Apple Silicon. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-17 Confidence: high |
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Full changelog
Velora 0.8.0
Local-first, on-device dictation for macOS. Your voice never leaves your Mac.
New in this release
- Speaker diarization for meetings. Multi-person calls are split into
Speaker 1 / Speaker 2 / … in the transcript, using on-device models
(sherpa-onnx, ~46 MB fetched on the first meeting). One-on-one calls stay
plain "Them"; toggle in Settings → Meetings. - Safe Voice Edit. Select text anywhere, press ⌥⇧E, and speak an edit —
"make this more formal", "fix the grammar", "turn this into bullet points".
Only the selection is touched, the change is undoable (⌘Z), and the edited
text is always on the clipboard as a fallback. - "As Heard" escape hatch. Paste the untouched raw transcript from the
menubar (Reformat Last as → As Heard) or view it in History — for when
cleanup got something wrong and you just want the words. - Automatic update checks. A once-a-day anonymous check against GitHub
releases (off in Settings → General if you'd rather Velora never touch the
network after model download). - Menubar icons for History, Meetings, and Setup Assistant.
Performance
Cleanup model is auto-selected by RAM (lighter 4-bit on ≤16 GB Macs).
Measured on Apple Silicon: dictation stop→final ~1.1 s, voice edit ~0.5 s per
sentence, diarization ~2 s per audio-minute. Peak engine memory a few GB.
Install
Apple Silicon + macOS 14+. Grab the DMG below (Developer ID-signed and
notarized), drag Velora to Applications, and open it. First launch downloads
the models (~6 GB) with visible progress; after that everything is offline.
Prefer to build? git clone, then make app — see the README.
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