Hedy will now automatically launch when MacOS starts. This can be enabled and disabled on the App Settings screen:

Hedy now displays a system tray icon with options to start and stop sessions. In addition, closing the Hedy window will not quit the app anymore, so sessions can be captured with Hedy running in the background.

The system tray menu can be enabled and disabled from the App Settings screen:

Speech recognition is now handled by the GPU using Metal on Apple devices. In our tests this improves speech recognition speed and efficiency by about 200%, conserving battery and improving responsiveness.

One restriction is that GPU processing can only happen when the app is in the foreground, so when the app is in the background the app falls back to CPU processing.

We are able to offer Arabic, Hindi, and Thai as session languages on MacOS. This is due to the additional processing power on Macbooks that allows us to run larger models than on mobile devices.

We hope to also eventually add these languages on our mobile apps as well.

Cantonese is now available as a session language on all platforms.

In our testing the normal model on iOS/Android would sometimes transcribe Cantonese conversations in Traditional Chinese, so we recommend running the large model if possible. On MacOS, either model will correctly transcribe Cantonese.

While Hedy is built to process audio locally, it does rely on online connectivity to validate account/license status and load configuration data. This could sometimes lead the app to hang while loading or starting/ending sessions.

In this version we optimized these critical points in the app lifecycle to run more reliably if there is no or slow internet connectivity. Any data that needs to be stored online (in particular cloud sync sessions) is cached on the device and synced the next time the device is online.

We believe to have identified and implemented a solution to Android 15 terminating Hedy when it's running and processing audio in the background.

A side effect is that Android now handles the priority of the audio processing thread, which in our experience is slower than it was previously. Therefore you might notice a slight slowdown in audio processing speed on Android devices.

We occasionally receive reports of Hedy sessions stopping for unknown reasons (not including Android terminations). These occurrences are hard to recreate and pin down.

To help get ahead of these issues, we've been reworking the session management and session recovery logic. Our hope is that these improvements will reduce or eradicate these issues. In particular, we've reduced the instances where Hedy would end a session due to issues and instead increased recovery and retry logic.

The app layout now changes based on the screen size. iPad and MacOS users will notice the menu switching to the left hand side. Over time we will implement additional optimizations to take advantage of the additional screen real estate.

The login method for your account is now visible in the top right of the Personal Information box in the App Settings.

The icon will show one of three options: