SimpleDictation 1.2.1

Fixes

Silence hallucination guard — When holding fn/option without speaking, speech engines (Apple Speech, Whisper, Moonshine) would hallucinate phrases like "thank you" and paste them at the cursor. A three-layer guard now prevents this:

• Recordings shorter than ~400ms are suppressed
• Empty/whitespace transcripts are suppressed
• A blacklist catches known hallucinations: "thank you", "thanks", "thanks for watching", "bye", "you", "."

Independent hotkey modifier toggles — The hotkey picker previously offered only "Fn", "Option", or "Both". It now shows four independently checkable toggles: Fn, Control, Option, Command. Any combination works — recording triggers when any enabled modifier is held. Settings persist across restarts. Default: Fn + Option (matches previous "Both" behavior).

Install

Download SimpleDictation-1.2.1.zip, unzip, and move to Applications.

SimpleDictation 1.2.0

Voice-to-text dictation for macOS. Hold fn or option, talk, release, text appears at your cursor.

Download & Install

1. Download SimpleDictation-1.2.0.zip below
2. Unzip it (double-click) and drag SimpleDictation.app to your Applications folder
3. Open Terminal and run this once to clear the Gatekeeper quarantine:

   xattr -cr /Applications/SimpleDictation.app
   

4. Launch SimpleDictation from Applications
5. Grant Microphone, Accessibility, and Speech Recognition permissions when prompted

Requirements

• Apple Silicon Mac (M1/M2/M3/M4)
• macOS 14.0 (Sonoma) or later

What's new in 1.2.0

• Model download notifications with floating status
• Brighter red recording indicator on the floating mic button
• Enter-on-double-tap fix for chat boxes and forms
• Raised minimum macOS to 14 to keep transcription engines working