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# 🎂 Birthdays, 👶 Babies & 🗣️ Better Dictation
- URL: https://list2.alterhq.com/birthdays-babies-better-dictation/
- Published: 2025-05-02T17:19:30.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-02T17:19:30.000Z
- Description: Our streak of 22 weekly releases has survived this week
- Author: Samuel ROY
- Tags: #beehiiv, #Import 2026-10-04 19:36

Hey everyone,  
  
This week was not *just* another week.

- Gaël, our Swift/UI magician turned 40! (He celebrated by fixing the code block wrap bug and handling the big Thursday Google overload)
- Kévin, our backend lead, is dad, again! Welcome to the world, little Nathan!

Despite cake, diapers flying around and me gone with family, we refused to miss a release. Here’s the surprise 👇

🆕 **Local Whisper Dictation**

You asked, we listened: Apple’s built-in dictation was… meh.

Now you can run OpenAI’s Whisper on your Mac—no cloud, no leaks, few mistakes.  

| **Mode**          | **Lives where** | **Why you’d pick it**                                                  |
| ----------------- | --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Apple Dictation   | On-device       | No good reason                                                         |
| **Local Whisper** | On-device       | Accuracy + privacy                                                     |
| Alter Cloud       | Our servers     | Long meetings, tough accents, smart formatting, speaker identification |

**Try it**: Settings → Dictation → pick a model.  
(Pro tip: start with **Small** for speed.)  
  
**Why you’ll care**

- **Private:** Audio never leaves your laptop.
- **Offline:** Plane, train, cabin—still works.

That’s it. Update Alter, try Whisper, and ping us in Discord if anything breaks.  

## Others Improvements

### User experience

- Support for Orion+, LibreWolf, Opera GX, Thorium and Beam browsers
- Code block wrapping
- New output languages: Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Vietnamese

### System & Performance

- Improved Dictation and LLMs calls by 500ms all regions
- Added a temporary fallback system between OpenAI and VertexAI providers

### Bug Fixes

- Deleting an action with a global shortcut unbind the shortcut
- Force activate app on what input
- Trim filename when saving to markdown

Best, Sam

## Videos on Alter

1. [Perfect speaker identification for all your meetings](https://youtu.be/YIMhbVgtGvk?utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=birthdays-babies-better-dictation)
2. [How to chat with Youtube Videos](https://youtu.be/LkZEH4wqI14?utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=birthdays-babies-better-dictation)
3. [How to chat with apps (or the fantastic follow-mode)](https://youtu.be/wp0PEinPm%5Fs?utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=birthdays-babies-better-dictation)
4. [How to use Workspaces](https://youtu.be/wp0PEinPm%5Fs?utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=birthdays-babies-better-dictation)

[Download Alter](https://alterhq.com/?utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=birthdays-babies-better-dictation) to try now.

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