v1.5.13

altic-dev/FluidVoicev1.5.13May 2, 2026by altic-dev

AI Summary

Focuses on UI polish with compact overlays and fixes for recording issues, short utterances, and Cohere transcription errors.

Key Highlights

  • Added compact notch presentation and pill bottom overlay modes.
  • Fixed very short utterances being dropped by padding with trailing silence.
  • Fixed AirPods route changes during recording.

New Features

  • Compact notch presentation mode.
  • Compact pill bottom overlay.
  • Hover details for activity stats bars.
  • Notifications when AI cleanup falls back to raw transcription.

Full Release Notes

# FluidVoice v1.5.13

## What's New
- Added a compact notch presentation mode with cleaner top-overlay controls.
- Added a compact pill bottom overlay with the app icon and responsive visualizer only.
- Added hover details to activity stats bars so each day shows its word count.
- Added optional notifications when AI cleanup falls back to raw transcription, opening History when clicked.

## Overlay Updates
- Smoothed stop-state overlay animations during final transcription.
- Improved compact notch presentation and command overlay behavior.
- Refined bottom overlay visualizer motion and removed unused preview space when preview is off.
- Fixed recording overlays appearing on the wrong display in multi-monitor setups.
- Fixed recording notch dismissal getting stuck behind stale hover state.
- Fixed prompt-test runs leaving the bottom overlay in its release animation state.
- Removed the duplicate Live Preview toggle from Settings.

## Voice Engine Updates
- Fixed very short utterances being dropped by padding them with trailing silence before transcription.
- Fixed repeated middle phrases in long Cohere transcripts by delegating long-audio merging to FluidAudio.
- Fixed AirPods route changes during recording and polished bottom overlay fade/visualizer behavior.

## AI and Settings Fixes
- Fixed dictation cleanup prompts so question-like transcripts are cleaned instead of answered, with `${transcript}` template support.
- Fixed AI post-processing errors being typed into dictation output.
- Added history warnings when AI cleanup falls back to raw transcription.
- Fixed custom AI providers resetting after reopening Settings.
- Fixed rollback picking the wrong saved app version.
- Fixed startup focus retries bringing FluidVoice back over other apps after clicking away.

## Docs and Links
- Updated the LM Studio setup guide link to the OpenAI-compatible chat completions documentation.
- Updated README install links and Homebrew cask instructions.

## Credits
- Thanks @domdomegg for the short-utterance padding, prompt-template, Anthropic, Ollama, and AI cleanup contributions.
- Thanks @shhac for the hotkey display fixes.

## Need Help?
- Report issues: https://github.com/altic-dev/FluidVoice/issues