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>
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