What we have built so far
VoiceSnap Pro is in private alpha. Everything below already works in the alpha build — none of it is downloadable yet.
VoiceSnap Pro has not publicly shipped
There is no installer on this page, and there is no version number you can go and get. Every entry below is a development milestone from the private alpha, dated the day the work landed in the build. When the public release is ready, the waitlist hears first — one email, on launch day, nothing else.
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Where the project stands
Three facts we would want to know if we were reading someone else's changelog.
- Stage
- Private alpha
- Invitation only, on macOS and Windows. Every build listed here went to that group and nowhere else.
- Public release
- Not yet dated
- We are not going to announce a date we are not sure of. The waitlist gets the real one first.
- Price at launch
- $39 one-time
- One payment, no subscription. Alpha testers are not being charged.
Development milestones
Newest first. Dates are the day the work landed in the alpha build, not a public release date.
- FixBuild 0.5.1
Alpha fix pass: shortcut conflicts and microphone handling
What changed in build 0.5.1
- Fixed the hold-to-dictate shortcut being swallowed by apps that register their own global hotkeys, so dictation now starts even when another app claims the same combination.
- Fixed the app holding on to a microphone that had been unplugged mid-session instead of falling back to the system's current default input.
- Fixed text landing in the previously focused field when you switched apps while still holding the shortcut. The transcript now goes to the field that has focus when you release.
- Custom vocabulary entries containing hyphens, periods or apostrophes are no longer split into separate words.
- Fixed the notes library search missing entries whose text contained accented characters.
- FeatureBuild 0.5.0
Notes library, custom vocabulary and 50+ languages
What changed in build 0.5.0
- Every dictation is now saved to a searchable notes library, so a transcript you pasted into the wrong window is still recoverable afterwards.
- Custom vocabulary: add names, company names, product names, acronyms and jargon so they transcribe correctly the first time instead of being corrected by hand.
- 50+ languages, including switching language mid-sentence without opening settings or changing a mode.
- Voice commands for formatting — "new paragraph", "new line", "all caps" — are recognised as instructions rather than transcribed as words.
- Alpha testers can now export the notes library, so nothing is trapped in the app.
- ImprovementBuild 0.3.0
Punctuation, paragraph breaks and filler-word removal
What changed in build 0.3.0
- Automatic punctuation: commas, full stops, question marks and quotation marks are inferred from how you speak, so you never have to say "comma" out loud.
- Paragraph breaks are inserted where you pause, so a three-minute dictation arrives already structured instead of as one wall of text.
- Filler words — "um", "uh", "like", "you know" — are stripped before the text is inserted.
- Reduced the delay between releasing the shortcut and the text appearing in the field.
- Reworked the on-screen recording indicator so it stays visible over full-screen apps.
- MilestoneBuild 0.1.0
Private alpha: the first end-to-end dictation build
What changed in build 0.1.0
- First build that works end to end on both macOS and Windows: hold one keyboard shortcut, speak, release, and the transcript is typed into whatever field already has the cursor.
- Works in any app — an email client, Slack, a code editor, a browser form — with no separate window to copy text out of.
- Audio is captured only while the shortcut is held. Releasing it stops the microphone.
- Recordings are discarded once the transcript comes back, and nothing is used to train AI models.
- Distributed to a small private alpha group by invitation. No public download, no store listing.
How to read this page
Build numbers are internal
They are pre-1.0 on purpose. A build number here tells you the order the work happened in, not that there is something to install.
Every line describes shipped code
We only list work that is running in the alpha build. Plans, experiments and things we abandoned do not get an entry.
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Once the repository publishes releases, this timeline is generated from them, so the changelog and the actual release notes can never drift apart.
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