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Sayburst 1.1.1 · 2026-10

Dictate with a mouse button: the middle button or a side button works like the dictation key — hold to talk, or click for hands-free. Settings › Shortcuts › Mouse button.
Skip polishing: a Skip button while Sayburst Writer is polishing inserts your cleaned text right away, handy on slower Macs.

Sayburst Writer: a built-in AI model that runs on your Mac (Qwen3 4B, optional 2.5 GB download). Every mode now polishes your words with no account, API key or internet.
Self-corrections: say “Tuesday… actually, no, Wednesday” and only Wednesday is typed.
Emails come out laid out, spoken lists come out as bullets, and your language is kept, never translated.
Safety check: if a rewrite would change a number you said, the cleaned transcript is used instead.
Notch recorder: on MacBooks with a notch, the recorder and live preview grow out of the notch.
Learns your words: fix a name by hand after dictating and Sayburst offers to add it to your dictionary.
Auto-send: press Return after inserting, per app, so chat messages go out when you let go.
Stats: words written, time saved and a two-week chart in History, with a shareable image.
Mute other audio while dictating (optional), play back kept recordings in History, and a faster first run that downloads the speech model while you grant permissions.

Live preview: see your words while you speak.
Fixed a crash with some audio interfaces (like BlackHole) and a hang when a microphone doesn't respond.

First release.
Hold fn (or right ⌥/⌘/⌃, or any shortcut) to dictate into any app; tap for hands-free.
Local speech recognition with Parakeet v3, Parakeet Ultra, Parakeet v2 and Whisper models; verified, resumable downloads.
Clean, Message, Email, Notes and Raw modes, with per-app rules.
Vocabulary with near-miss correction, exact replacements, JSON/CSV import and export.
Optional writing providers: Ollama, LM Studio, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Groq, or any OpenAI-compatible API.
Rewrite selected text and Ask shortcuts; Markdown note capture; audio file transcription.
Searchable history with retention controls; recovery for text that couldn't be typed and for interrupted recordings.