Fix a desktop-session freeze (forced logout/reboot) caused by the overlay's
AT-SPI caret tracker: it subscribed to the high-frequency object:text-caret-moved
signal and made synchronous, blocking AT-SPI reads from inside the event handler,
re-entering the a11y dispatcher and getting stormed by the app's own xdotool
typing until GNOME stopped responding. Now track focus changes only and read the
caret rectangle lazily, once, when the overlay shows — never on the hot path.
Fuse voice-routing feedback into the overlay instead of a desktop notification:
show the matched preset's emoji, name, and spoken keyword on a banner, narrate
the phase (Transcribing -> Rewriting), and stream the LLM rewrite into the bubble
token-by-token. Redundant per-dictation notifications are suppressed when the
overlay is present (errors still notify); headless/overlay-off is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A full circle wraps the mic glyph and drains clockwise as the trailing-
silence timer runs out, recolouring cyan→amber→red and emptying exactly
as auto-stop fires. The daemon emits the countdown from the same VAD loop
that decides auto-stop, so the ring stays in sync; the overlay drains it
against its own clock for smooth motion and fades it in/out so word gaps
don't flicker it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Show a translucent, click-through bubble the moment recording starts (by
hotkey or wakeword): a pulsing microphone, a live waveform of the mic
level, and the recognised text (word-by-word when streaming, otherwise a
brief final-result confirmation). The tail points at the text caret via
AT-SPI accessibility, falling back to the mouse pointer, then a screen
corner. Also gives hands-free wakeword sessions visible feedback, whose
notifications are suppressed by design. X11 only.
- overlay.py: GTK override-redirect HUD (mic + waveform + bubble), drawn
with Cairo; thread-safe, marshalled onto the GTK loop.
- caret.py: best-effort anchor (AT-SPI caret -> pointer -> window/corner).
- daemon: optional level_cb/text_cb hooks; reuses the VAD level meter for
non-streaming, a dedicated meter for streaming. Stays UI-agnostic.
- gtkui: instantiate the overlay, drive show/update/hide from status.
- General settings: "Visual overlay" toggle; config overlay_enabled /
overlay_anchor (default on, "caret").
- Docs: CHANGELOG 1.5.0, version bump, README + MANUAL.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bump version to 1.4.0 and cut the [1.4.0] - 2026-06-07 changelog section:
- "Announce matched preset" notification (shown even hands-free) + per-preset
emoji icons.
- Voice-routing no-keyword default now prefers a transcribe preset instead of
the first preset.
Refresh the README status line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bump version to 1.3.0 and cut the [1.3.0] - 2026-06-07 changelog section
(wakeword pause toggle, independent hands-free audio cues, configurable
auto-stop silence, notification hygiene, PortAudio noise suppression, and the
new MANUAL.md). Refresh the README status line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
packaging/build-deb.sh builds an installable blitztext_<ver>_arm64.deb with a
desktop entry, app icon, and launcher. Bundles a relocatable venv (all Python
deps, no pip at install) and declares system deps (python3-gi, xdotool,
libnotify-bin, recorder). Built on /usr/bin/python3 so the tray works out of
the box. Installs via the Software app or `apt install ./…deb`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Minimal flat design with the Ubuntu font: clickable workflow rows with hover
(click to record/stop), muted descriptions and hotkey hints, subtle dividers,
and text-style Settings/Quit. Drops monogram avatars and per-row buttons.
Settings window restyled to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The upstream app is macOS-only (Swift/SwiftUI, CoreML/WhisperKit) and can't
run on Linux or in a container. This adds a native host tool under linux/ that
reproduces the workflow: focus any text field, press a hotkey, speak, and the
optionally-rewritten text is typed into that field.
- Engine: pynput global hotkeys → mic record → local faster-whisper →
optional OpenAI-compatible rewrite → xdotool typing into the focused window
- Frontends: system tray (AppIndicator, default), tkinter control panel,
and headless modes
- Config-driven workflows in ~/.config/blitztext/config.toml with per-workflow
prompt/model/temperature overrides
- Packaging: install.sh, requirements.txt, systemd user unit
- Targets X11; local transcription runs CPU int8 on this arm64 host
See linux/CHANGELOG.md and linux/README.md for details.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
