Changelog
Everything that ships in Voxpen.
v1.4.0
NewJuly 25, 2026- NVIDIA Parakeet TDT v3 engine — up to 110x realtime transcription on the Neural Engine, roughly 10x faster than Whisper large
- Whisper large-v3-turbo added to the model lineup — 99 languages at 8x the speed of large-v3
- New Models tab in Settings — download, switch, and manage all seven local models
- Selecting a model now hot-swaps the engine instantly, no restart needed
- Context-aware number formatting — 'one of the greatest' stays words, 'twenty percent' becomes 20%
v1.3.0
March 22, 2026- Voxpen is now completely free — no trial, no subscription
- Streamlined, more compact onboarding
- Transcription pipeline diagnostics and an engine-refresh safety net for consistent quality over long sessions
v1.2.0
February 2026- Fixed transcription quality degrading after repeated use
- Fixed long recordings skipping sentences
- Fixed intermittent 'no speech detected' failures and silent recording failures
- Fixed dashboard history not appearing, plus dashboard performance improvements
v1.0.1
February 2026- Fixed microphone permission not registering in System Settings
- Fixed lingering Accessibility permission dialogs
- Onboarding now re-appears if permissions are missing after a reinstall
v1.0.0
February 19, 2026- Initial release — private, on-device dictation for macOS with global hotkey, auto-paste, and Polish Mode