Nouveautés

A new menu bar icon.

• AmélioréNew menu bar icon: four waveform bars. Part of the unified icon family shared by all micro apps — clearer and easier to tell apart at menu bar size.

A brand-new app icon.

• NouveauRefreshed the app icon with a new layered design (Liquid Glass on macOS Tahoe).
• AmélioréSettings now shows the exact system-rendered app icon.
• AmélioréPermission warnings use the shared red-dot badge, and the license entry in the menu bar matches other micro apps.
• CorrigéAfter signing in from the browser, Settings > Account now comes back to the front.

Half the wait — text appears in 3 seconds instead of 6.5.

• AmélioréDictation is twice as fast: median time from releasing the key to text appearing dropped from 6.6s to 3.3s (short phrases ~2s). Transcription and cleanup now travel as a single request, preparation runs while you speak, and nothing waits in line behind bookkeeping.
• AmélioréShort phrases get a lighter AI pass — same quality where it matters (your dictionary and learned corrections still apply), much lower latency.
• CorrigéDictating into password fields no longer sends the transcribed text to the cloud for cleanup — secure fields now stay fully on-device, matching what we already did for audio.
• CorrigéA slow network can no longer cause the cleanup AI to run twice on the same dictation.

Push-to-talk, and vocabulary you only register once.

• NouveauRecording is now push-to-talk: hold the key to record, release to transcribe.
• NouveauYour vocabulary and replacement rules sync with your microai.jp account and are shared with the other microai apps that use them — register a name once, not twice.
• AmélioréCanceling a recording is more reliable: esc works while you hold the right ⌘, pressing it twice stops processing, and the cloud request is aborted as well.

Safety net for accidental recordings, plus insertion diagnostics.

• NouveauAuto-stop on silence — if nothing is heard for 30 seconds, recording ends by itself. An accidental hotkey tap no longer records until the 9-minute cap; if nothing was recognized, nothing is inserted.
• AmélioréSmarter homophone correction: the cleanup AI now resolves ambiguous words from the sentence itself (server-side, all versions benefit).
• AmélioréInsertion diagnostics — paste failures now log their reason (permissions, secure input) for faster support.
• AmélioréNew macOS 26 (Tahoe) app icon format.

High-accuracy recognition, refinement controls and brand polish.

• NouveauHigh-accuracy mode — cloud recognition runs alongside on-device recognition and swaps in the more accurate final text.
• NouveauRefinement strength slider (Settings → Formatting, shown when refinement is on).
• AmélioréContext-aware refinement — the active window title and your recent dictations on the same screen inform the cleanup.
• NouveaumicroAI Bundle license keys are now accepted.
• AmélioréAccent color unified on the brand blue across the app, onboarding included.
• CorrigéSettings and onboarding windows could hide behind the frontmost app.

14 languages, smarter learning and UI polish.

• NouveauNow available in 14 languages.
• NouveauLearns from your edits — fix the inserted text and microVoice remembers the correction.
• NouveauStarts at login (on by default, toggle in Settings → General).
• AmélioréLive waveform, usage card, inline dictionary editing and more hotkeys.
• AmélioréUnit words can be symbolized in any language (e.g. “one gigabyte” → 1GB).
• CorrigéSilence-only sessions no longer get stuck on “Processing…”.
• NouveauTester mode — click the app icon in Settings 8 times to share diagnostics with us during beta testing.

Ask & Translate, accounts and licensing.

• NouveauAsk anything by voice (right ⌥ by default) — speak a request and the answer is typed for you.
• NouveauTranslate as you dictate — assign a hotkey and choose the target language in Settings.
• Nouveaumicroai.jp account sign-in, settings sync, and license activation.
• AmélioréNew Permissions and About tabs in Settings, and a refreshed app icon.
• CorrigéSubscription licenses were displayed as one-time purchases.