Product updates

Your Home dashboard now shows total words, time saved, and average words per minute together in a single Your stats card, with your top sources and activity heatmap alongside it.

Your all-time word count is also more accurate. It now counts every day you have dictated, so the total reflects your full history instead of only your recent dictations.

Cleanup in Local Mode now stays faithful to your dictation. It strips filler and fixes punctuation and capitalization while keeping your meaning, wording, and language intact. Before, on-device Cleanup could rewrite what you said, and sometimes answer a question you dictated instead of tidying it up. Cloud mode was already accurate, and Local Mode now matches it.

Local Mode Cleanup also runs up to the Medium level now. High runs in Cloud mode only. If you have High selected and switch to Local Mode, Cleanup runs at Medium, and your High setting returns automatically when you switch back to Cloud mode.

Learn more about Cleanup levels and Local Mode.

Dictation now stays on your chosen microphone after you unplug it, reconnect it, or restart your Mac. Before, your saved mic could go stale on reconnect and Epilude would fall back to the wrong device, sometimes your Bluetooth headphones, and capture nothing useful.

If your preferred mic is unplugged, Epilude now steps through your microphone ranking instead of grabbing the system default, and re-selects your mic automatically when it comes back.

Pick your microphone in Settings → Audio → Microphone with a redesigned picker. Click Change to see your devices in one list, with a live level meter on the active mic so you can confirm it is hearing you before you dictate.

• Live input level on the selected microphone, so you can see it working
• Edit ranking to set a preference order, so Epilude uses the highest available mic and falls back on its own when one is unplugged
• Unavailable mics show the reason instead of disappearing, like your built-in mic when the laptop lid is closed

Your choice and ranking apply to every dictation.

You can now report a dictation that came out wrong, straight from the Home dashboard. Each recent dictation has a flag button that opens a short form where you can describe what you expected.

Your report includes that dictation's original and cleaned text, so we can see what happened and improve quality. No audio is included, and a dictation is only ever sent if you choose to report it.

Adding a description is optional. If you'd like a reply, you can reach us through the Help Center.

See exactly what Cleanup changed in any dictation. On the Home dashboard, open a recent dictation's menu and choose See what changed to compare your raw words with the cleaned version, with added and removed words highlighted inline.

If you prefer your original wording, Revert to raw keeps the raw transcript instead of the cleaned text. It doesn't change what was already inserted.

The option appears whenever Cleanup edited a dictation, so you can always check what it did and trust what Epilude inserts.

Learn more about Cleanup levels.

Send text is a new optional command: end a dictation with the words "send text" and Epilude sends the message for you, instead of typing those words. It inserts the rest of what you said, then presses Return.

It works where Return submits:

• Chat apps, terminals, and web chats like Slack, Messages, Terminal, and ChatGPT
• Single-line fields like a browser address bar or a search box

In editors and notes such as Word, Pages, and Notion, "send text" is typed as normal text and nothing is sent.

Send text is off by default. Turn it on in Settings → Dictation, under Dictation behavior, where you can also set specific apps to always or never send.

See Say "send text" to submit for details.

Vocabulary is now available to everyone. Teach Epilude how to spell the names, brands, acronyms, and jargon you use, and it gets them right on every dictation, in any app.

Add a word from the new Vocabulary sidebar section, quick-add a selected word from anywhere with ⌘⇧D, or bulk-import a list from another tool. Corrections run in both Cloud mode and Local Mode, so they work the same even when dictation stays fully on your Mac.

See Vocabulary for setup and tips.

Double-tapping your push-to-talk hotkey to start hands-free dictation is now more reliable, especially on Bluetooth keyboards. A slightly slow double-tap used to register as a single press and start a one-off dictation instead of switching to hands-free. Epilude now allows a little more time between the two taps.

Local Mode runs dictation entirely on your Mac. Choose it in Settings → Dictation, switch to Local Mode, download Epilude Model 1 once, and your audio and text never leave your device. It works offline, so you can dictate without a connection.

Cloud mode stays the default, with the broadest language support (35+ languages). Local Mode covers 25 European languages and needs an Apple Silicon Mac; full on-device Cleanup needs 16GB of memory or more. Switch between the two whenever you like.

See Local Mode for setup and details.

We also fixed an issue where text you dictated during the onboarding practice step appeared twice. Your practice text now inserts once, and onboarding no longer overwrites whatever you'd copied to your clipboard.

Empty dictations no longer insert stray text or overwrite your clipboard. If you start a dictation but stay silent, Epilude now leaves your text field and your clipboard untouched. Before, a silent dictation could paste a stray sentence or replace whatever you had copied.

If you keep Bluetooth earbuds connected for listening but dictate on a different microphone, like your Mac's built-in mic, dictation no longer stalls. Epilude was switching your earbuds into call mode on every press, adding a one-to-two second delay and sometimes dropping quick presses entirely. Now it only does that when the earbuds are actually the mic you're dictating with.

New installs now start with Left ⌘ + E as the push-to-talk hotkey. If you've already set your own, nothing changes.

You can also bind to a specific side of the keyboard. Set a hotkey to Left ⌘ or Right ⌘ (shown as L⌘ and R⌘) and it fires only when you press that physical key, leaving the other one free for other shortcuts. Record a new hotkey from Settings → Hotkeys and Epilude picks up which side you pressed automatically.

Shortcuts now expand only when the trigger is the entire dictation, not when the same phrase appears inside a longer sentence. Saying "let me give my intro to the team" no longer triggers your "my intro" shortcut. Only saying "my intro" on its own does.

This makes shortcuts safe to use with short, natural phrases like "my email" or "office address" without worrying about false expansions during normal speech. To use a shortcut, press your hotkey, say the trigger, and release. Trailing punctuation and surrounding whitespace are ignored, so a period added by Smart Formatting still matches.