Releases

What's new

Every echo99 release and what it brought — newest first.

Version 0.8

August 22, 2026

Export a transcript as Markdown: the Recordings window can now save the whole conversation — with timestamps and speaker names — as a Markdown file, ready to paste into your notes.
Voice samples for speakers: play a short identification clip of each speaker straight from the transcript, so naming who's who is easier.
If the speaker-recognition model is missing, echo99 now warns you and offers to install it instead of silently skipping speaker matching.
Fixed Bluetooth headsets: the other side of a call no longer comes out sped-up and distorted when the headset switches audio profiles mid-recording.

July 30, 2026

Full-call playback: play a recording straight from the Recordings window — scrub, change speed, and balance your mic against the other side.
Speaker activity timeline shows who spoke when across the call.
Recordings are now stored at a fixed 24 kHz mono — smaller files, same transcription quality.

July 24, 2026

New Recordings window: browse recordings, read transcripts, and play any line back.
People: name a speaker once and echo99 recognizes their voice in future calls; your People list can be exported and imported.
Re-transcribe any recording with a different model — if anything fails, the old transcript is kept.
Global keyboard shortcut to start and stop recording (⌃⌥R by default, configurable in Config → Shortcuts).

July 17, 2026

Experimental Sortformer speaker-separation model for Apple silicon Macs (Config → Models).
More accurate speaker counting with the standard speaker model, tuned on real multi-party calls.
Recording now survives switching your microphone or headphones mid-call, including Bluetooth.

July 11, 2026

Skip silence during transcription (opt-in): long quiet stretches no longer slow transcription down — uses the optional Silero VAD model from Config → Models.
Mic and system tracks now record in mono — smaller files, same speech quality.
Sturdier crash recovery: an interrupted recording is recovered even when only one track was written, and a finished recording can no longer be lost when quitting.
Opt-in debug logging (Config → Debug) to help track down problems.

July 6, 2026

Czech localization completed: the Config window, model descriptions, and every error alert.
Fixed alerts that mixed English and Czech in one message.

July 5, 2026