Only the TTS model (~2.4 GB) is required on first run; ASR models are
per-platform curated picks (curated_on in models.yaml) installed on demand.
Every transcription surface returns a typed asr_model_missing error with a
one-click download CTA instead of silently pulling multi-GB Whisper weights.
Settings -> Models is a grouped, platform-aware catalog. New guided
permissions UX (wizard System Check + Settings -> Permissions + mic
pre-flight) with native mic-state checks and OS settings deep-links. New
parakeet-mlx engine brings Parakeet TDT v3 to Apple Silicon (language-gated
capture preference so multilingual dictation never regresses). Docs:
expressive-speech page, Flush/Unload + CPU-fallback triage, clone-length FAQ.
Hardening: preflight fails open for custom model pins, ROCm curation no
longer inherits NVIDIA picks, Windows mic probe reads the NonPackaged
consent key, CaptureWidget setup race fixed, offline-cache CI simulation
fixes so empty-cache runners stay green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(asr): repoint two 404 ASR model repo IDs in catalog (closes#239)
Model install failed with HTTP 404 for two ASR entries whose Hugging Face
repos don't exist:
- UsefulSensors/moonshine-small -> UsefulSensors/moonshine-tiny (Moonshine
ships tiny/base; there is no 300M 'small')
- Systran/faster-whisper-large-v3-turbo -> deepdml/faster-whisper-large-v3-turbo-ct2
(Systran publishes no turbo repo; deepdml is a valid CTranslate2 build)
Audited all 25 catalog repo_ids — every one resolves 200 on HF after the swap.
Adds a static (no-network, CI-safe) regression test asserting repo_ids are
well-formed and the known-404 IDs can't reappear.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test/docs(asr): safer repo_id access + flag turbo repo as community build (PR #242 review)
- test_known_404_repo_ids_absent: m.get('repo_id','') so a missing field gives a
clean assertion instead of KeyError regardless of test order.
- models.yaml: note the turbo entry is a community CTranslate2 conversion to
re-verify on future audits (greptile).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Palash Debnath