What changed.What changed.

Fixes

• Dictating with "Write in" set no longer comes back empty. When you spoke in the language you'd chosen to write in (English, for example), nothing was typed. Now your words go in as you said them.

Chat with Wispy

• Double-tap Control to open a chat with Wispy right in the notch. Ask anything or have it do things on your Mac, and approve its actions in the chat. You can change the shortcut in Settings.
• Send Wispy any file with the paperclip or by dropping it in. It reads what you share, and it can send files back to you.
• The call button turns the chat into a voice conversation.

Fixes

• Dictation with AirPods on a closed MacBook works again. It was listening on the Mac's own microphone, which hears nothing with the lid shut. If your microphone ever records only silence, Wisper Back now tells you instead of ending quietly.
• Hey Wispy (hold your dictation key, then press Left Control) no longer cancels the dictation when no text box is selected, and it no longer touches your clipboard.
• Calls about your agents' work: reading another chat no longer changes where your messages go, and long turns are read correctly.

Shortcuts

• Screenshot summary is now ⌘⇧2.

Fixes

• A ringing or ongoing call now keeps the notch. Before, an agent finishing its turn could replace the call card, so the ringtone kept playing with nothing to answer. Anything that arrives during a call now waits and shows when the call ends.

When an agent calls, it rings

• A call from a coding agent now rings like a phone: an incoming-call card in the notch with Pick up and Not now, and your ringtone on loop.
• Not at your Mac? After three rings it says out loud, by name, who is calling and what it’s about. When you're back, it rings again.
• Never picked up? A missed call stays in the notch for a moment, with Call back.
• Choose your ringtone in Settings → Agents: Classic, Marimba, Chime or Pulse, with a preview. Author's "Call me" uses the same one.

One-click setup for agent calls

• Settings → Agents → When they call you now has a Set up button for Claude Code and Codex. It connects them for you and shows when it's done, instead of a command to copy.

Simpler

• Wisper Back always runs on its own service now. The option to bring your own keys is gone, along with its settings.

Author and Wispy work as one

• Author now thinks on the same engine as Wispy (fn+Control): one shared thread and memory, and all of Wispy's tools, including the shell, files, web, calendar, connected services, helpers and memory. Everything runs under the same permission mode, and anything that needs your yes is asked out loud.
• On a live call, Author can use Wispy's tools too. When an action needs approval, the voice asks you and passes your answer on, or you can tap Yes, No or Always in the notch. The call starts knowing what you asked Wispy to remember, and what was said joins Wispy's thread when it ends.

Author sees what you point at

• Ask about "this" or "what I'm looking at", and Author now gets what's selected, what's under the pointer, and a picture of the screen with the pointer ringed, not just the front window's text.
• While you're talking with Author, the screenshot shortcut shows it the region you drag instead of reading it out.
• Pictures are used only for that turn and never kept. It all stays off when screen context is off.

Author knows the app

• Author can explain dictation, narration modes, live reading, shortcuts and your gestures (knocks, slides, the lid), and turn gestures on or off when you ask.
• A slide during a conversation with Author no longer pops a question over it.

Fixes

• Closing the main window now hides the Dock icon; Wisper Back keeps running from the menu bar. Opening it again brings the Dock icon back.

Agents can call you

• Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents can now call you when they finish. Add Wisper Back to the agent once, then ask it to "call me when you're done":
• Claude Code: `claude mcp add --scope user wisper-back -- '/Applications/Wisper Back.app/Contents/MacOS/wisprback' mcp`
• Codex: `codex mcp add wisper-back -- '/Applications/Wisper Back.app/Contents/MacOS/wisprback' mcp`
• If you're at your Mac, you hear what the agent said and a call opens so you can answer back.
• If you're away, Wisper Back says "Call for" your name and the message out loud, a few times, until you're back. Then the notch offers Pick up.
• To tell whether you're there, it checks once per call: whether the screen is locked or asleep, when you last typed or moved the mouse, and the lid. A quick camera check is optional and off by default. Nothing is saved.
• Turn it off, or turn on the camera check, in Settings > Agents. Copy setup puts the Claude Code command on your clipboard.

Dictation

• Polish on every dictation keeps your words. It fixes grammar, punctuation, filler words, repeats and words that were misheard, and no longer rewrites what you said in its own words. If a polish changes too much, your words go in as you said them.
• Dictation is ready for the next one sooner: it no longer waits for your clipboard to be put back before you can talk again, and the last words you say reach the transcriber faster.
• While you talk, the words in the notch flow into the caret beside the voice bars, in one row, the same as the island.

Dictation

• With Type as I speak on, your words go into the box as you talk in Chrome, Slack, T3 Code and other web-based apps too, instead of only appearing once you let go.
• No more "copied" card over words that are already in the box. If you send a message before it has been tidied, the card says so, and the tidied text is on your clipboard.
• A transform set to run on every dictation, like Polish, no longer holds your words back for seconds: they land about two seconds sooner, and if the polish takes too long they go in as you said them.

Narration

• Copying text and pressing play reads what you copied. An agent's recap that had stopped showing in the notch could take over the key and play instead.
• A coding agent's recap no longer reads out its own background notices.

Sign-in and settings

• The sign-in code is six slots: paste or type it and it checks itself, no Verify button.
• Work in progress (installing, connecting, writing a summary) shows one mark that finishes in place, and permissions tick over as you allow them.
• Your dictation numbers count up when you open Home or Dictation.

Dictation in your browser

• Dictation types into Chrome, Brave, Arc and Edge again. When a browser had been left alone for a while, your words went to the clipboard instead of the box you were typing in.

Ask Wispy: hold fn and Control

• Hold fn and Control to talk to Wispy. Ask anything, follow up, interrupt; it answers out loud and writes where your cursor is. Esc or "goodbye" ends it.
• Wispy can do things on your Mac: read and change files, run commands, open apps and websites. Undo is in Settings → Wispy → What Wispy did.
• You choose how much it may do on its own, from asking before every change to Full access. Approvals are spoken: say yes, always, no or stop.
• It can look things up: the web, your Wisper Back history (dictations, notes, meetings), the front window, the clipboard, your calendar and reminders.
• It remembers what you ask it to ("remember my sister's name is Pooja"), never passwords or card numbers, and forgets on request.
• Longer jobs go to helpers that work in the background while you keep talking, and Wispy tells you when they're done. Working helpers show in the menu with Stop.
• Connect Notion, Linear and your Obsidian vault in Settings → Wispy → Connections. Reading is free; any change asks first.

Small things

• The notch stays out of screen recordings and screen sharing, since it shows your dictated words. Turn this off in Settings → Agents.
• The notch panel shows your next calendar event, if you've already given Calendar access.
• Lighter on 8 GB Macs: the app starts much smaller, and on-device voices and speech models leave memory while you're away.
• Knock and slide gestures rest while you're away, and an open call costs less battery.
• Dictation keeps its first words and starts faster.
• Sign out asks whether to keep your history on this Mac. You can also remove Wisper Back completely from Settings → Plans.
• Plans are Free, Pro and Author, with a "You're on" card and yearly priced as a year.
• The install window shows properly again: drag Wisper Back across to Applications, with a clear next step.
• Setup asks for Microphone and Accessibility together, with one button. No permission prompts pop up on their own anymore.
• Katie is the voice of setup again: hear her on the welcome screen, and pick her or Eve when you first try narration.
• A new install's notch starts simple: just your voice. Add-ons wait until you add them.

Small things

• New installs open in dark mode. If you've already picked an appearance, it stays.
• On the Free plan, Get Pro in Account now opens checkout right in the app.

Hey Wispy

• Hold fn, press Left Control, and say what you want instead of every word: "email Maya for feedback by Thursday" writes the email where your cursor is. Select text first to rewrite it, or say "make that more formal" right after dictating.

Transforms

• Saved rewrites on a number key: hold fn and press 1–9 while you talk and the words come out polished, shorter, friendlier or as a prompt for your agent. Press ⌥ and the number to apply one to selected text, or run one on every dictation. Make your own in Settings → Wispy.

A friendlier first run

• Setup now lets you dictate and hear Eve read to you before anything else, then shows what's left on a short checklist on Home.

Pro from the app

• Get Pro, cancel your subscription or close your account from Settings → Plans.

Your first week is free

• Every account gets a week of everything in Pro, free. Account shows how many days are left, with a reminder on the last two days.
• Pro is now ₹599 a month or ₹6,589 a year, GST included, with two hours a month of dictation where words appear as you speak.

Author is a call now (Max)

• When your agent finishes, Author rings. Pick up and it tells you what happened, then you talk it through like a phone call: cut in any time and it answers straight away.
• It can do things while you talk: open a chat in T3 Code, look at what's on your screen, check what your agent actually changed, and run tasks in your apps.
• Say "call me back" and it hangs up, then rings again only when something needs you.
• If another agent finishes while you're on a call, Author asks if you want to hear it, and your reply goes to that chat.
• Author speaks in your own narration voice, and names your agent the way you see it, like "Claude Code in T3 Code".
• Author is part of Max.

Dictation

• Commands, branch names and file names you say into coding apps come out formatted, like `git fetch upstream main` and `upstream/main`.
• Spoken replies go to the chat that was just read, even when your coding app has many chats open, and only send when Send after dictating is on.

Simpler

• Two voices per style, so choosing is easy. If your voice was removed, you're moved to its closest match.
• Dictating in other languages keeps working as before, with one less download to manage.
• Tasks in WhatsApp find the right chat more reliably.

The pill

• Choose Pill and everything the notch does now happens in a small floating pill: dictation, narration and its controls, agent updates, calls, meetings, timers and messages.
• Drag the pill anywhere, even up beside the notch. Each display remembers where you put it.
• At rest it's a slim bar. Hover it to see your controls; it grows smoothly into whatever is happening and shrinks back.
• The pill hides while you present and stays out of screen recordings, like the notch.

Sound

• Pick where Wisper Back plays from the menu bar, for example your earphones, while other apps keep playing on the speakers. Narration, calls, voices and sounds all follow it.

Faster and more careful

• Wisper Back uses much less power while it's idle.
• Type as I speak never types over text you've clicked into or selected while talking.
• Auto-send only presses Return in the app you were dictating into.
• Narration ends cleanly instead of hanging if your speakers or headphones drop out.
• Something you copy while narrating is no longer overwritten.
• The menu bar panel shows Stop while something is being read, and keeps only the choices you'll actually change.

The menu bar panel

• Pick your narration voice, speed and length right from the panel. Your starred voices are listed, with the rest one click away.
• Paste last puts your last dictation wherever the cursor is.
• Start a call, and hide Wisper Back's overlays while you share your screen, from Tools.
• The window icon at the top opens History, Notes, Recall or Meetings directly.
• Help, Report a Problem and Send Feedback are under the ? at the bottom.
• On plans with a limit, you can see how much dictation or narration you have left, with Upgrade once you're running low.

The menu bar

• Click Wisp in the menu bar for a new panel: big Dictate and Narrate buttons, and every switch you use often (Type as I speak, Smart formatting, Screen context, Auto-send, the language you dictate in) one click away.
• Dictation and narration each have an on/off switch at the top of their section.
• Hover over anything in the panel to see what it does.
• Your add-ons, gestures, the indicator and your agent quota sit together under Tools.
• Check for updates, Settings and Quit are at the bottom.
• Right-click Wisp for the plain list, now grouped into Dictation and Narration.

Dictation

• Your words start appearing almost as soon as you start talking, instead of after a pause.
• New: Type as I speak. Turn it on in Settings › Shortcuts and your words go straight into the text box as you talk, then tidy up when you finish. If anything changes the box while you talk, your words go to the clipboard instead, so nothing gets mixed up.
• On Pro, Max and teams, change your mind mid-sentence and only what you meant goes in: "Tuesday, sorry, Wednesday" becomes "Wednesday", and "twelve thousand, I mean eleven thousand rupees" keeps the second amount.
• Lists you speak, like "one passport, two chargers, then the tickets", come out as a list.
• Names and terms on your screen are heard correctly from your very first word.
• Fixed: a fix you made by hand could be learned as a rule that swapped ordinary words for others. Only real names and terms are learned now.

Dictation

• On Pro, Max and teams, your words now appear as you speak, about half a second behind your voice.
• Names and terms on your screen are heard right from your first word.
• Spoken amounts and times come out the way you'd write them: "twelve thousand five hundred dollars" becomes $12,500, and "four fifteen pm" becomes 4:15 PM.
• Dictating into Raycast, Spotlight, Alfred or any other floating search bar now types your words in, instead of only copying them.
• If you click into a different box while talking, your words go where you clicked.
• Fixes that you make by hand are now only learned when they're names or terms, so everyday phrases are never swapped for something else.

The pill

• The pill now shows your words flowing out of the cursor as you speak, and narration's words flow along it too.
• The pill's glow moves smoothly with your voice, and the pill appears instantly.
• Switch between the notch and the pill from the menu bar: Indicator › Notch or Pill.

Dictation

• Write in another language: speak in English, Hindi, Bengali or any language you like, and the words land in the language you picked, such as Chinese for a WhatsApp chat. Turn it on from the chip under the notch or the menu bar.
• On Max, your words now flow under the notch the moment you say them, instead of after a pause.

Dictation

• On Pro and Max, dictation is now even more accurate: it writes down what you say continuously as you speak, and the text lands under a second after you let go.

Dictation

• The live words while you dictate are back to a single line beside the notch.

Dictation

• While you dictate, your words now flow under the notch as you say them, the newest one lit, just like the lyrics when Wisper Back reads to you.

Dictation

• Dictation is much faster, especially when you talk for a while: your words are written down as you speak, so the text lands about a second after you let go, even after half a minute of talking. Before, a long dictation could take two seconds or more.
• Long dictations are more accurate too, because the words you use are taken into account from the start.

Everything ready, nothing to set up

• Wisper Back now gets itself ready in the background after you sign in, so dictation and the standard voice just work, even when you're offline. There's nothing to download or choose.
• Dictation and narration pick the best way to run for your plan and your connection, and switch on their own when you go offline.

Plans

• Free: dictation and the standard voice. Pro and Max: dictation with the best accuracy and natural voices.

Under the hood

• A smaller, faster app.

Dictation

• Fixed: a dictation could come back as a list of words from your screen instead of what you said. When the engine wasn't sure what it heard, it could repeat the hints Wisper Back gives it. Those answers are now caught and redone, and the hints only include names and terms that are really on your screen, not pieces of buttons and labels run together.
• Dictation is more accurate and costs less to run: it's back on the engine that tested best on Indian-English speech with names and technical words, now with your words as hints.

Dictation

• Dictation sends your voice in a smaller, voice-tuned format, about a third lighter than before, so it holds up better on slow connections.

Free plan

• The Mac voice now gets itself ready: on the Free plan, Wisper Back downloads the English voice (about 125 MB) in the background after you sign in, then reads in Heart, a natural voice that plays on your Mac for free. It waits for a regular connection, never on Low Data Mode, and if you've picked a voice yourself it stays yours.
• When the week's free cloud dictation runs out, the message now says when words come back instead of promising dictation on this Mac.

Setup

• Everyone can hear Katie during setup, on any plan. Her greeting now comes with the app, so it plays straight away, even offline.

Fixes

• On the Free plan, setup no longer tries to play Katie, a natural voice that comes with Pro, and no longer shows "Your API key was rejected" when it can't. It says Free reads in the Mac voice.
• When a voice isn't on your plan, the message now says so, with a button to see plans, instead of asking you to check an API key.

Dictation

• Dictation hears you better. It now runs on a newer, more accurate engine, and each recording tells it where the words are going and the words you use: your learned words and the names and terms on your screen. In a test, "tech pack" and "Prajjwal" came out right where they used to come out as "takepack" and "project".
• Words on screen no longer swap out what you said. Before, a dictation could turn "on the DKP" into "and toe cap", "take back" into "the Quick pack", or "don't" into "didn't". Screen words now only replace a word when the match is close and the screen word is unusual, one word for one word, and never change a negation.
• Cut-off letters left by a stumble ("it w it works", "main main m") are cleaned up.

Search

• The page behind search now blurs and dims, so the results are the only thing in focus.

New

• Search everything: the Search row at the top of the sidebar, or ⌘K, finds your dictations, narrations, notes, Quick Inserts, meetings and settings as you type. Return opens the result.
• Turn narration off: Settings > Voice > Narration (or Narration in the menu bar). With it off, Wisper Back only dictates: nothing reads aloud, agents stay quiet, and the notch hides its narration controls.
• Send After Dictating is in the menu bar too, with every app or just the ones you pick.

Account

• Wisper Back now asks you to sign in before you use it. If you're signed in already, nothing changes.

Smaller things

• The menu bar menu groups your add-ons in their own section.

Fixes

• With the sidebar collapsed, the window's close button now sits centred above the logo instead of off to the left.

Add-ons

• Each add-on that's on now has "Add to notch" on the Add-ons page, to put it one click away beside the notch, and "Remove from notch" to take it off again.
• The menu bar menu lists your add-ons: Add Deadline…, Start or Pause Stopwatch, Show or Hide Camera, and Open for each add-on app you've installed.

Fixes

• Resizing the Wisper Back window is smoother. Home no longer rebuilds your whole history on every step of a resize, and the knock and slide sensors do far less work in the background.
• Codex's own behind-the-scenes requests no longer show up as narration offers with odd text like {"exclude":[]}.

Dictation

• Dictation now reads right for where it lands. Emails get the greeting and sign-off on their own lines. A one-line chat message loses its full stop. In Codex, Claude and ChatGPT, file names, paths, flags and code names go in backticks. In a terminal, what you say is what's typed, on one line.
• While you dictate, the notch shows where the words are going: an envelope for email, a bubble for messages, brackets for code, a page for writing. Click it to move that app or website to another kind, for good.
• Dictation's Style page has a style for each kind of place, and a list of apps and sites you've moved.
• Email and writing apps now read formally by default, and single-line chat messages drop the full stop. You can change both in Style.
• "Ah" and "er" are now removed along with "um" and "uh".

Meetings

• The meeting bar in the notch is smaller and quieter: a red dot and the time on one side, three icons on the other.
• A new eye button in the meeting bar hides the notch from screen shares and recordings, and shows it again. It's the same switch as Settings > Voice > Screen sharing, so it stays as you leave it.
• An hour of meeting now uses an hour of your meeting hours. Before, the two sides of a call were counted separately, so an hour used more than two.

Dictation

• Dictations no longer rewrite themselves. Two dictations in a row now get a space between them, and words you never fixed are no longer "learned" as corrections. If odd words kept appearing in your dictations, they're gone.
• Words on screen no longer swap your everyday words for similar-sounding ones; names and terms on screen are still spelled the way the screen does.
• While you dictate, the outline of the notch (or the pill) stays softly lit and breathes with your voice, so it's clear it's listening.

Narration

• Swipe two fingers across the lyrics to move through a narration, just like dragging. Slow moves stay precise; quick ones go further.
• Every narration starts at the speed set in Settings, wherever the lid is. Tilting the lid changes the speed of the narration playing only.
• Your music or video keeps pausing for narration after you've resumed it yourself during one.

New

• Slide the laptop to dictate or listen: turn on Settings → Shortcuts → "Slide the laptop toward you or away". Slide it toward you in a text box and you're asked "Dictate?"; slide it away and you're asked "Read the selection?" (or what you copied, showing its first words), or "Stop speaking?" while something plays. Tap fn, knock twice or click to say yes; Escape or a click elsewhere says no, and left alone it fades.
• A light runs round the notch (or the pill) whenever dictation or narration starts or ends, and when it asks you something. With Reduce Motion it's a soft fade.

Fixes

• Every dictation start plays the start sound, including ones started by knocks or a note's Speak.
• Moving, lifting or turning the laptop no longer counts as knocks.
• The ✕ on "Taking longer than usual…" now works.

Dictation

• When a dictation shows "Taking longer than usual…", you can now cancel it: click the ✕ in the notch (or in the pill), or press Escape. Undo tries the same recording again, so nothing is lost.

New

• Feel each word on the trackpad: turn on Settings → Voice → While it speaks → "Feel each word on the trackpad?". With a finger resting on the trackpad, narration, Author and calls tap lightly on every word and a little firmer where a sentence ends.

Knocks

• Softer knocks count. Knocks on the palm rest no longer need to be hard, and knocks on the desk around the laptop are still ignored.
• After knocking twice to dictate, one press of your dictation key finishes it and Escape cancels it. Before, a tap did nothing. The same goes for a note's Speak button.

Fixes

• The "Knock on the palm rest" and "The lid pauses Wisper Back" switches now show in Settings → Shortcuts whichever shortcut mode you use. Before, they were hidden with the primary key, so knocks couldn't be turned on.

Knocks

• Knocking on the palm rest is now off until you turn it on (Settings → Shortcuts → Knock on the palm rest).
• Knocks on the table no longer set it off, on this laptop or one nearby: Wisper Back now uses the laptop's gyroscope to feel the difference between a knock on the palm rest, which tips the laptop slightly, and a knock on the table, which doesn't.

Knock and lid

• Knock twice on the palm rest to dictate, and twice again to finish (three times cancels, with Undo). Right after you copy something, two knocks read it aloud; with a notification waiting in the notch, they play it.
• While something is speaking, two knocks pause or carry on and three stop it. Knocks on the table under the laptop, typing and Wisper Back's own voice are ignored.
• The lid controls whatever is going on: lower it to pause speech (raise it to carry on), stop a dictation (with Undo) or end a conversation. Tilt it back for faster voices, forward for slower, with a small tick you can feel and hear. The new speed shows in the notch.

Dictation

• Fix a misheard name right after dictating and it's spelled right next time, everywhere: dictation, Author, calls, meetings and transcripts.
• Rewrite selected text by voice: select it, press ⌃⌘E, say how to change it ("make it friendlier", "in Hindi"), press ⌃⌘E again. Ask a question about it instead and you get the answer out loud.
• ⌃⌘V pastes your last dictation again.

Right-click

• Select text anywhere, right-click → Services: Read with Wisper Back, Explain with Wisper Back, or Add to Wisper Back Vocabulary.
• Right-click an audio or video file in Finder → Services → Transcribe with Wisper Back. The transcript is copied and saved to Notes.

Faster and smoother

• No dead air between spoken sentences, and agent summaries lead with the result.
• One soft trackpad tap when something you asked for is done.
• Speech and voice warm up when your Mac wakes or you come back after a break, so the first press is quick.
• Mac tasks find every copy of an app by name and open the one macOS would.

Add-ons

• A new Add-ons page: extra tools that live in the notch. Deadline, Stopwatch and Camera are built in and on by default; more apps are coming soon.
• Deadline: a split-flap countdown in the notch, with the name on one side and the time on the other. Hover to open it, add deadlines (+25m, +1h, Today 6 pm), and get alerts at 3, 2 and 1 hours and at the deadline.
• Stopwatch: start, lap, pause and stop, with the running time in the notch.
• Camera: the notch opens around a mirrored view of your camera. Pin it to float it anywhere.
• Say "start a 25 minute timer", "deadline at 6 pm", "start the stopwatch" or "show my camera".
• Add-ons appear as chips you can place on either side of the notch, and the notch now folds chips into icons or a "…" menu instead of running off the screen.

With the notch turned off

• Everything the notch would show now lives in the menu bar. While you record a meeting the icon shows a red dot and the time, and its menu has Stop and Open transcript.
• Things waiting on you, like a finished agent, "Record meeting?" or "Meeting ended", put a dot on the icon and sit at the top of the menu with their buttons.
• What's being read is in the menu with Pause, Stop and Reply. Errors show a warning on the icon and a notification.
• Fixed: an ignored agent offer could take over your next shortcut press, a meeting could keep recording after the call ended, and "Call me" kept ringing.

Meetings

• Record any meeting: when you join a Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or FaceTime call, the notch offers "Record meeting?". There's no time limit, and the recording stops when you quit the call.
• A live transcript labels who's speaking, keeps "You" separate, and drops the echo of the call your mic picks up.
• When it ends you get a summary, key points, decisions, action items, open questions and next steps, with the platform and participants named. Hear it read out, or copy it.
• Meetings have their own page in the sidebar.

Teams

• Create a team, invite people by email, and give them Owner, Admin or Member roles.
• Personal and team vocabulary and Quick Inserts: a team word fixes everyone's dictation.
• Share a meeting with your team, or record together: on the same call or in the same room, you get one transcript with everyone named.
• Follow teammates' coding agents and hear when they finish.

Notes and look

• Notes is now for notes you write or save: type or speak in one step. Dictations stay in History, with "Save to Notes".
• A new colour scheme from Sanzo Wada's dictionary of colour combinations, in dark and light mode.

Mac tasks

• Things you've had done once get much faster the second time. After a task like sending a WhatsApp message works, Wisper Back remembers the steps; the next time you ask for the same kind of thing, for anyone, it does them straight away: about 4 seconds instead of 10 to 25.
• Every check stays: it opens the right chat, types exactly your words, and confirms the message arrived. If anything looks different, it goes back to working it out step by step, and it never sends twice.

Author mode

• Author answers about a second sooner after you stop talking. With a speech pack downloaded, it now hears you on this Mac even when dictation goes to the cloud.
• Author spells names and terms the way your screen shows them, like dictation does.

Dictation

• One switch instead of three writing styles. Smart formatting (on by default) drops “um”s and repeated words and turns spoken lists, numbers and “new line” into text; turn it off to type your exact words.
• Your speech pack now hears every dictation in its language. Before, choosing Cleaned or Rewrite quietly sent dictation to the cloud instead.
• Lists form the way people actually say them. “I need three things from the store, okay? Milk, eggs and bread” becomes a bulleted list, and anything you add after, like “and also I need pens”, stays as its own line.

Dictation

• Screen words now come with your speech pack. Once a speech pack is installed and screen context is on, Wisper Back quietly downloads the screen-words check too (about 110 MB), so names on screen like “Supabase” come out right without an extra step. You can still remove it in Settings → Shortcuts → Speech packs, and it stays removed.

Dictation

Thanks to Raj Sharma for this release's dictation work.

• Smart formatting: spoken lists become lists, numbers read in pieces become digits (“seven two seven” → 727), and “new line”, “new paragraph”, “scratch that” and spoken punctuation work. Cleaned and Rewrite also drop fillers and stutters; Verbatim keeps them. On by default in Settings → Shortcuts.
• Screen context: names, identifiers and short phrases are spelled the way the front window shows them, such as RE-727 or python3. The screen text is only kept in memory for that one dictation and is never stored or sent. On by default in Settings → Shortcuts.
• Screen words: an optional 110 MB download in Speech packs that checks a likely mishearing of a screen word against your recording before fixing it.
• Dictation can show on a small pill at the bottom of the screen instead of the notch. The notch stays the default.
• Send after dictating: Wisper Back can press Return after pasting, in the apps you choose. Off by default.
• Paste works on Dvorak, AZERTY and other keyboard layouts.
• Dictation starts a little faster, and a dictation with no pause no longer waits on the speech model to wake up.

Narration

• A short pause between paragraphs, so longer readings breathe like someone talking. It lasts the same at any speed, with every voice, in the cloud and on this Mac.

Reply to what your agents say

• When Claude Code or Codex speaks to you through Wisper Back mid-task, you can now reply to it like a finished turn: the notch shows which agent is talking, “Hold fn to reply” appears when it’s done, and your reply goes back to that chat.
• If another narration starts before the reply hint appears, the hint now shows once that narration has finished.

Author does more on your Mac, in the background

• Tasks run in the background. Apps open without coming to the front, so you can keep working; a key press or click borrows an app for a moment only when you're not typing, then hands the front back.
• Apps a task opened just to look something up are closed again when it's done. Apps you already had open, and anything it typed into, stay open.
• Author knows what's running and what's finished, so you can ask how a task went, and it never says something is done before it is.
• Follow-ups work: "do the same for Shyam" or "try that again" are understood as things to do.

Faster and more reliable

• One planning step can now do several things (type a search and press Return; open a tab, type the address, press Return), so common jobs need fewer steps.
• Works in more apps: things that can't be pressed directly (Finder's sidebar, Numbers' template chooser) are clicked, and Return works in search and address bars.
• A sequence that stops part-way carries on from where it got to instead of giving up.
• The faster computer-use engine runs as one long-lived process, and falls back to the built-in one when it can't reach a window.
• Sending a WhatsApp message finds the right chat and message box more reliably.

New: smarter Quick Inserts

Quick Inserts now has its own place in the sidebar, under Dictation.

• Anywhere in a sentence: say “insert” or “paste” and a trigger mid-sentence (“sure, insert my calendar link, grab a slot”) and the saved text drops in right there. Without “insert” or “paste”, nothing expands mid-sentence.
• Say it your way: near misses still match (“cal link” for “calendar link”, a plural, a dropped “my”). When you save an insert, a few other ways of saying it are suggested for you, and you can edit them.
• Live fields: saved text can carry today’s date, the time, your clipboard, the selected text or the app you’re in, filled in when you insert.
• Suggestions: when you’ve dictated the same sentence in three separate dictations, Wisper Back offers to save it as an insert.
• Saved text now goes in exactly as you wrote it; your dictionary and writing style no longer change it.

Author

• Ask for several things at once. Author splits the request into separate tasks and runs tasks in different apps side by side, in the background, and keeps listening. It tells you results and questions at the next pause, never over you.
• Say “stop” while tasks are running to stop them.

Fixes

• Sending a WhatsApp message with computer use no longer stops at “the expected control is not visible”, and a sent message is now confirmed.
• Fixed a crash in media-key handling that could happen while computer use was typing or clicking.

New: voices on this Mac

Two optional voice packs, free on every plan, in Settings → Voice → Voices on this Mac. They work offline and start speaking in about a tenth of a second.

• English voices: Heart, Michael, Emma and George play on your Mac once installed (about 125 MB).
• Voices in 31 languages: Maya, Iris, Kabir and Owen, including Hindi (about 165 MB).

Author calls

• The call shortcut (fn⌃A) now talks to Author about your agent chat whatever "When agents finish" is set to, including when auto-narrate is off. Right after launch it picks the chat you used most recently.
• With a voice pack installed, Author and calls speak on your Mac, and a chosen speech pack hears you on your Mac.

Fixes

• Hindi narrations start after the first sentence instead of waiting for the whole paragraph (the Hindi full stop, ।, now ends a sentence; so do the Chinese and Japanese ones).