TypeWhisper/typewhisper-mac v1.6.0-rc1

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TypeWhisper 1.6.0-rc1 opens the 1.6 release-candidate line with a more productive settings experience, new statistics and backup tools, and a broad reliability pass across dictation, audio routing, workflows, integrations, and local models.

Highlights

• Unified the visual language across Settings, including dashboards, forms, collections, workspaces, and advanced tool pages.
• Added a Statistics view for privacy-friendly aggregate usage insights.
• Added Backup & Restore for portable workflows, dictionary entries, snippets, profiles, prompt actions, hotkeys, installed community plugins, transcription history text, update-channel selection, and supported preferences.
• Regrouped the menu bar for faster access and now shows the active transcription provider alongside the selected model.

Dictation Reliability

• Added an ordered microphone priority list and improved recovery for AirPods, Bluetooth system-default input, clamshell changes, and FaceTime built-in microphone capture.
• Reduced startup and dictation latency while keeping recording and model preparation responsive.
• Fixed indicator placement, dismissal, fullscreen visibility, feedback interaction, countdown progress, and optional screen-capture visibility.
• Improved contextual insertion for Firefox, CJK text, trailing spaces, secure-input situations, and target-app correction learning.

Dictionary & Workflows

• Added dictionary search, safe reset actions, grouped correction variants, clearer learned-correction visibility, and a guided microphone correction trainer.
• Applied dictionary corrections to file transcription and connected per-term CTC tuning to Parakeet.
• Added ordered global LLM provider and model fallbacks while keeping explicit workflow providers strict.
• Added explicit workflow dictation through the local API and improved webhook and Obsidian workflow configuration.

Models & Integrations

• Added a live-preview engine override so preview can stay local while final transcription uses the configured dictation engine.
• Added Soniox live WebSocket transcription and the local Cohere Transcribe integration.
• Added context-aware OpenAI transcription and dynamic ChatGPT model discovery.
• Improved MLX model storage, lazy restore, stalled-download recovery, and lifecycle handling across Qwen3, Gemma 4, Granite, Voxtral, Parakeet, and WhisperKit.

Known Limitation

• Automatic private iCloud sync is disabled in this build while the production container and Developer ID provisioning profile remain unavailable.
• Cloud Folder Sync through a user-selected iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Syncthing, or custom folder remains available.

Testing Focus

• Verify both an upgrade from 1.5.1 and a clean installation, including permissions, first dictation, and preservation of user data and update-channel selection.
• Exercise AirPods, Bluetooth, clamshell, virtual-input, and built-in microphone routes across dictation and Recorder sessions.
• Smoke-test dictation, text insertion, file transcription and export, workflows, History, the local HTTP API, and the CLI.
• Verify that the tagged RC1 build hides automatic private iCloud sync while preserving user-selected Cloud Folder Sync.
• Verify Dictionary search, correction training, per-term CTC, Backup & Restore, Statistics, indicators, models, bundled integrations, community plugins, and the Release Candidate update channel.