chore(release): prepare v0.13.0-beta (#489)
- Bump version 0.12.0-beta -> 0.13.0-beta (src/vocalinux/version.py) - README: refresh "What's New" for v0.13.0-beta and bump comparison table - docs/UPDATE.md: add v0.13.0-beta section and bump checkout example - SECURITY.md: mark 0.13.x supported, 0.12.x unsupported - docs/RELEASE_PROCESS.md: add v0.13.0-beta to version history - web: bump package.json / package-lock.json / page.tsx schema + badge - web changelog: add v0.13.0-beta entry and refresh dateModified
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@@ -32,41 +32,39 @@ It's a free, GPLv3-licensed desktop app that lets you dictate text into *any* ap
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No internet required. No data leaves your machine. Just speak and type.
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## 📚 What's New in v0.12.0-beta
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## 📚 What's New in v0.13.0-beta
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> 🎉 **Release: Remote API recognition, Silero VAD, and reliability hardening across threading, IBus, settings, installer, and model metadata.**
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> 🎉 **Release: Guided whisper.cpp model selection, plus Wayland text-injection reliability, hotplug keyboard support, dictation spacing fixes, and refreshed website docs.**
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### 🚀 Highlights
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| Feature | Description |
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|---------|-------------|
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| **🌐 Remote API Engine** | New speech recognition backend for self-hosted or compatible remote transcription services |
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| **🎙️ Silero VAD** | Neural voice activity detection drops silence-only buffers for cleaner, faster dictation |
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| **🧵 Thread Safety** | Hardened Remote API, IBus, and text injection threading behavior |
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| **🔌 IBus Reliability** | Preserves user engines for dead keys and captures scoped engines during activation |
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| **⚙️ Settings Polish** | Remote Server section now respects the Advanced toggle and the dialog fits lower-resolution screens |
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| **📦 Installer & Models** | CUDA diagnostics include auto-remediation and model download sizes are corrected |
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| **🎙️ Guided Whisper Models** | Pick a whisper.cpp **size** and **specialization** (English-only, quantized, Turbo) through split dropdowns with in-app guidance |
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| **🔌 Hotplug Keyboard Support** | Shortcuts keep working on keyboards connected after startup, with automatic recovery from disconnects |
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| **✍️ Dictation Spacing** | Spacing is preserved between speech segments separated by a pause in the same session |
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| **🖥️ Wayland Reliability** | Fixes silent text drops on wlroots/COSMIC compositors and garbled output on non-US keyboard layouts |
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### ✨ New Features
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- **Remote API speech recognition engine** — Configure Vocalinux to use compatible remote transcription services while keeping existing local engines available (#335)
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- **Silero VAD** — Neural voice activity detection filters silence-only buffers for cleaner recognition when ONNX Runtime support is installed (#447)
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- **Guided whisper.cpp model variants** — The Settings dialog now splits whisper.cpp selection into **Model Size** and **Specialization**, exposing English-only, quantized (Q5/Q8), Large v3 Turbo, and legacy large models with language-aware recommendations and hover guidance. Exact model IDs (e.g. `medium.en-q5_0`, `large-v3-turbo`) can also be passed to `--model` (#465)
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### 🐛 Bug Fixes
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- **Threading**: Harden Remote API, IBus, and text injection thread safety (#452)
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- **IBus**: Preserve user engines for dead keys and capture the current engine during scoped activation (#457, #458)
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- **UI**: Keep the Remote Server section behind the Advanced toggle and reduce settings dialog height for lower-resolution screens (#454, #456)
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- **Installer**: Harden CUDA diagnostics with auto-remediation and behavioral tests (#451)
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- **Models**: Correct whisper.cpp and VOSK download size metadata (#453)
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- **Startup**: Allow launch without the pynput backend (#448)
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- **Website**: Clarify speech demo browser support (#449)
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- **Dictation**: Preserve spacing between speech segments separated by a pause, so words no longer run together after a silence within the same session (#464)
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- **Shortcuts**: The evdev keyboard backend rescans for hotplugged keyboards, so shortcuts work on devices connected after startup and disconnected devices can be replugged (#467)
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- **KDE Plasma Wayland**: Detect KDE Plasma Wayland sessions and guide you to enable IBus Wayland (System Settings → Keyboard → Virtual Keyboard) when `wtype` injection fails, with matching hints during install and in logs (#466)
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- **Wayland**: Fix garbled output on non-US keyboard layouts (AZERTY/QWERTZ/Dvorak) and a clipboard-copy hang; ydotool now pastes through the clipboard for layout-independent injection (#480)
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- **Wayland/IBus**: Use wtype/ydotool instead of IBus on compositors that don't bridge IBus to native apps (COSMIC, Sway, Hyprland, and similar), fixing silent text drops (#486)
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- **Wayland/IBus**: Require a real IM engine before using IBus on Wayland, so a bare `xkb` layout no longer causes silent text drops on GNOME/Mutter and other compositors (#478)
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- **Wayland**: Preserve the keyboard layout on Wayland by not running `setxkbmap`, which was flipping XWayland/Electron apps to `us` after dictation (#474)
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- **UI**: Cap the settings dialog height on high-resolution displays (#465)
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### 🔧 Improvements
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- **Developer docs** — Remote API test server instructions for easier backend testing (#455)
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- **Community** — GitHub Sponsors funding configuration added
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- **Behavioral coverage** — CUDA diagnostics and release-facing reliability fixes include targeted tests
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- **Performance** — Faster ydotool text injection via an explicit `--key-delay` (#488)
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- **Website** — New documentation pages for Remote API, Silero VAD, advanced whisper.cpp settings, and desktop reliability, plus responsive layout polish (#470)
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- **CI** — Automatic pull-request labeling by changed files (#473)
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---
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| Platform | Project | Website | GitHub | Status |
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|----------|---------|---------|--------|--------|
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| 🐧 Linux | **VocaLinux** | [vocalinux.com](https://vocalinux.com) | [jatinkrmalik/vocalinux](https://github.com/jatinkrmalik/vocalinux) | ✅ Beta v0.12.0 |
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| 🐧 Linux | **VocaLinux** | [vocalinux.com](https://vocalinux.com) | [jatinkrmalik/vocalinux](https://github.com/jatinkrmalik/vocalinux) | ✅ Beta v0.13.0 |
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| 🍎 macOS | **VocaMac** | [vocamac.com](https://vocamac.com) | [jatinkrmalik/vocamac](https://github.com/jatinkrmalik/vocamac) | 🚀 Beta |
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| 🪟 Windows | **VocaWin** | [vocawin.com](https://vocawin.com) | [jatinkrmalik/vocawin](https://github.com/jatinkrmalik/vocawin) | 📋 Planned |
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| Version | Supported |
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| ------- | ------------------ |
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| 0.12.x | :white_check_mark: |
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| 0.13.x | :white_check_mark: |
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| 0.12.x | :x: |
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| 0.11.x | :x: |
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| 0.10.x | :x: |
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| 0.9.x | :x: |
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@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ git push origin v0.5.1-beta
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| 0.10.2-beta | 2026-04-08 | Beta | Non-ASCII text injection, IBus Wayland detection, Pop!_OS deps, code quality refactor |
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| 0.11.0-beta | 2026-05-30 | Beta | Advanced Settings tab, IBus/recognition hardening, installer fixes, distro compatibility |
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| 0.12.0-beta | 2026-06-07 | Beta | Remote API engine, Silero VAD, threading/IBus hardening, settings and installer fixes |
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| 0.13.0-beta | 2026-06-30 | Beta | Guided whisper.cpp model variants, Wayland text-injection reliability, hotplug keyboard support, dictation spacing fix, website docs refresh |
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## Questions?
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This guide explains how to update Vocalinux to the latest version.
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## What's New in v0.13.0-beta
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### 🚀 Highlights
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| Feature | Description |
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| **🎙️ Guided Whisper Models** | Pick a whisper.cpp size and specialization (English-only, quantized, Turbo) with in-app guidance |
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| **🔌 Hotplug Keyboard Support** | Shortcuts keep working on keyboards connected after startup |
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| **✍️ Dictation Spacing** | Spacing preserved between speech segments separated by a pause in the same session |
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| **🖥️ Wayland Reliability** | Fixes silent text drops on wlroots/COSMIC compositors and garbled non-US-layout output |
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### ✨ New Features
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- **Guided whisper.cpp model variants** — The Settings dialog now splits whisper.cpp selection into **Model Size** and **Specialization**, exposing English-only, quantized (Q5/Q8), Large v3 Turbo, and legacy large models with language-aware recommendations and hover guidance. Exact model IDs (e.g. `medium.en-q5_0`, `large-v3-turbo`) can also be passed to `--model` (#465)
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### 🐛 Bug Fixes
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- **Dictation**: Preserve spacing between speech segments separated by a pause (#464)
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- **Shortcuts**: Rescan for hotplugged keyboards so shortcuts work on devices connected after startup (#467)
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- **KDE Plasma Wayland**: Detect KDE Plasma Wayland sessions and guide you to enable IBus Wayland when `wtype` injection fails (#466)
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- **Wayland**: Fix garbled output on non-US keyboard layouts and a clipboard-copy hang; ydotool now pastes through the clipboard (#480)
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- **Wayland/IBus**: Use wtype/ydotool instead of IBus on compositors that don't bridge IBus to native apps like COSMIC, Sway, and Hyprland (#486)
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- **Wayland/IBus**: Require a real IM engine on Wayland so a bare `xkb` layout no longer causes silent text drops on GNOME/Mutter and similar (#478)
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- **Wayland**: Preserve the keyboard layout on Wayland by not running `setxkbmap` (was flipping XWayland apps to `us`) (#474)
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- **UI**: Cap the settings dialog height on high-resolution displays (#465)
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### 🔧 Improvements
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- **Performance**: Faster ydotool text injection via an explicit `--key-delay` (#488)
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- **Website**: New documentation pages for Remote API, Silero VAD, advanced whisper.cpp settings, and desktop reliability (#470)
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- **CI**: Automatic pull-request labeling by changed files (#473)
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See the [full changelog](https://github.com/jatinkrmalik/vocalinux/releases/tag/v0.13.0-beta).
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---
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## What's New in v0.12.0-beta
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### 🚀 Highlights
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```bash
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cd vocalinux
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git fetch origin
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git checkout v0.12.0-beta
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git checkout v0.13.0-beta
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./install.sh
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```
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Version information for Vocalinux.
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"""
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__version__ = "0.12.0-beta"
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__version_info__ = (0, 12, 0, "beta")
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__version__ = "0.13.0-beta"
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__version_info__ = (0, 13, 0, "beta")
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__author__ = "Jatin K Malik"
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__email__ = "jatinkrmalik@gmail.com"
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__license__ = "GPL-3.0"
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{
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"name": "vocalinux-website",
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"version": "0.12.0",
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"version": "0.13.0",
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"lockfileVersion": 3,
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"requires": true,
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"packages": {
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"": {
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"name": "vocalinux-website",
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"version": "0.12.0",
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"version": "0.13.0",
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"dependencies": {
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"@types/node": "^20.14.10",
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"@types/react": "^18.3.3",
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{
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"name": "vocalinux-website",
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"version": "0.12.0",
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"version": "0.13.0",
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"private": true,
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"type": "module",
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"scripts": {
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import { absoluteUrl, buildPageMetadata } from "@/lib/seo";
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const releases = [
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{
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version: "v0.13.0-beta",
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date: "2026-06-30",
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type: "beta",
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highlights: [
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"Guided whisper.cpp model selection: pick a size plus a specialization (English-only, quantized Q5/Q8, or Large v3 Turbo) through split Model Size and Specialization dropdowns with in-app guidance; the --model flag also accepts exact IDs like medium.en-q5_0 and large-v3-turbo (PR #465)",
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"Dictation now keeps a space between segments spoken with a pause in between, so words no longer run together after a silence (PR #464)",
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"Keyboard shortcuts now work on keyboards hotplugged after Vocalinux starts, with the evdev backend rescanning for new devices and recovering from disconnects (PR #467)",
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"Vocalinux now detects KDE Plasma Wayland sessions and points you to enable IBus Wayland for reliable text injection, surfaced during install and when wtype injection fails (PR #466)",
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"Wayland: fixed garbled text on non-US keyboard layouts (AZERTY/QWERTZ/Dvorak) and a clipboard-copy hang; ydotool now pastes through the clipboard, which is layout-independent (PR #480)",
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"Wayland: use wtype/ydotool instead of IBus on compositors that don't bridge it to native apps like COSMIC, Sway, and Hyprland, fixing silent text drops (PR #486)",
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"Wayland/IBus: require a real IM engine before using IBus, so a bare xkb layout no longer causes silent text drops on GNOME/Mutter and other compositors (#478)",
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"Wayland: keep the keyboard layout intact by not running setxkbmap, which was flipping XWayland apps to us after dictation (#474)",
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"Faster ydotool text injection via an explicit --key-delay (PR #488)",
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"Settings dialog height capped on high-resolution displays (PR #465)",
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"Refreshed website docs with new feature pages for Remote API, Silero VAD, advanced whisper.cpp settings, and desktop reliability, plus responsive layout polish (PR #470)",
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],
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},
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{
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version: "v0.12.0-beta",
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date: "2026-06-07",
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headline: "Vocalinux Changelog - Release History",
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description:
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"Complete release history for Vocalinux, the offline voice dictation software for Linux.",
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dateModified: "2026-06-11",
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dateModified: "2026-06-30",
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author: {
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"@type": "Person",
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name: "Jatin K Malik",
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},
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description:
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"Offline voice dictation and speech-to-text for Linux with whisper.cpp and VOSK.",
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softwareVersion: "0.12.0-beta",
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softwareVersion: "0.13.0-beta",
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author: {
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"@type": "Person",
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name: "Jatin K Malik",
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/>
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<span className="text-lg font-bold sm:text-xl">Vocalinux</span>
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<span className="from-primary/20 border-primary/30 shadow-primary/20 hidden rounded-full border bg-gradient-to-r to-green-500/20 px-2.5 py-1 text-xs font-semibold text-primary shadow-sm sm:inline-block">
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v0.12.0 Beta
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v0.13.0 Beta
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</span>
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</Link>
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