Product updates

A transcription or cleanup request that hit a momentary network blip or a busy server used to fail outright, leaving you to redo the dictation. Epilude now retries automatically after a short pause, so a passing hiccup stays invisible instead of costing you a dictation.

This applies to Cloud mode transcription, cleanup, and Text-to-Speech.

Local Mode now runs Epilude Model 4.1, a refinement of Model 4. It's most noticeable on longer dictations, which used to occasionally ramble or repeat themselves — those now stay tight and faithful to what you said. On our internal benchmark it clears more of our quality bar than Model 4 did, in the same 1.5 GB download at the same speed.

If you already use on-device Cleanup on a 16GB+ Mac, a card on Home will let you know the new model is ready. You keep dictating with your current model until you upgrade with one tap.

When you reported a dictation that came out wrong, nothing on screen confirmed it had gone through. Now the dictation's flag icon fills in once you report it, so you can tell at a glance which ones you've already sent us. Hover it to report the same dictation again if something else needs flagging.

The change shows up everywhere your dictations are listed — both the Home dashboard and the All dictations view.

When you spoke numbers inside an ordinary sentence, Cleanup could mistake them for a list and break your text onto bullet points — "listed at nineteen fifty" or "roughly two hundred" might come back as a stray heading with a lone item beneath it.

Epilude now only starts a list when you're genuinely counting through items, and it leaves numbers that are quantities, times, or prices where they belong — in the sentence. Real lists you dictate still format as before.

When a new version of the on-device model shipped, Local Mode used to pause dictation until you downloaded it, even if the model you already had worked fine. Updates now work the way you'd expect: you keep dictating with your current model, a dismissible card on Home lets you know a newer one is available, and you upgrade when it suits you with one tap.

Settings also gained a model switcher: see which model is running, update in the background, and keep or remove older models after switching.

This applies to on-device Cleanup on 16GB+ Macs. Learn more about Local Mode.

Local Mode now runs Epilude Model 4, the fourth generation of our on-device model. Cleanup quality jumps exactly where it matters: mid-sentence self-corrections resolve correctly, dates and names survive intact, mixed-language sentences stay in the languages you spoke, and casual writing keeps your hedges. On our internal benchmark it makes 56 percent fewer critical meaning errors than Model 3, in the same 1.5 GB download at the same speed. If you already use Local Mode, the app will prompt you to re-download the model (about 1.6 GB). Read the full story in Introducing Epilude Model 4.

Dictating a plain number like "two million" in Local Mode could occasionally come out with a currency symbol you never spoke, such as "$2 million". Epilude now removes these invented symbols, while amounts you actually dictate as money ("four thousand dollars" becomes "$4,000") keep working exactly as before. Cloud mode was never affected.

The floating widget's hint could mention a keyboard shortcut for a feature that hasn't launched yet. The hint now lists only shortcuts for features available in your app.

We tuned Epilude to run lighter on your Mac. The hotkey setup screen is now smoother, and Epilude keeps a tidier footprint while it runs, so it stays quick and stays out of your way.

Very soft or distant speech could occasionally come back empty from cloud dictation, even when there was real audio to transcribe. Epilude now judges quiet speech relative to the loudest part of your recording, so a near-silent phrase is transcribed instead of being discarded as background noise.

We tightened a range of protections across the Epilude backend and web pages: stricter limits on sign-in and support requests, hardened handling of the pages that manage your session, and tighter controls on how our servers make outbound requests. Nothing changes in how you use Epilude.

The Recent dictations card on the home screen now opens into a full list of your dictation history. Every entry supports the same actions as the card: copy the text, compare it with the raw transcript, undo or redo Cleanup, or report a result that missed the mark.

Dictation history stays on your Mac.

Your dictation hotkeys, including Caps Lock, are now handled by a small dedicated helper that runs alongside Epilude. Keyboard monitoring this way can no longer interfere with typing in other apps, even in the rare cases where the main app is busy or restarting.

The helper registers itself, keeps itself up to date after app updates, and if it is ever unavailable Epilude falls back to handling hotkeys itself, so dictation keeps working either way. No setup needed.

Holding a modifier-only push-to-talk hotkey, such as Right Command, could end the dictation on its own after about a second even though you were still holding the key. The hold is now tracked correctly for as long as you keep the key down.