LiveTranscriber 1.2 is a major update:
• A new Apple Watch app lets you start, pause, resume, and stop recordings from your wrist, play recordings on the watch, and transfer them to your iPhone
• New Apple Watch widgets and complications provide quick recording access and show recording and transfer status
• Choose Voice, Balanced, or High Quality recording on Apple Watch, with optional recording location
• Added Parakeet V3 for fast, high-accuracy Core ML transcription across supported European languages
• Start offline background retranscription from the recording player, with progress preserved for long-running tasks
• Added optional Sortformer live speaker diarization with stable speaker labels during recording
• Added Qwen3-ASR Live Beta and improved streaming support for long recordings
• Reworked Nemotron 3.5 Core ML live transcription with improved model loading, background handling, and timestamp alignment
• Added optional automatic MOSS post-recording refinement for more accurate final transcripts and speaker-separated results
• Added Picture in Picture captions so live transcription remains visible while using other apps
• Improved live and saved-transcript translation, with a new settings page for checking and preparing Apple Translation language packs
• Added Standard and Spatial Audio capture profiles, sample-rate and mono/stereo controls, wind-noise removal, high-quality Bluetooth recording, and microphone selection
• Redesigned recording details and playback with clearer waveforms, transcript locating and following, audio effects, and spatial-audio master sharing
• Improved recording editing for titles, key points, tags, summaries, languages, categories, and locations, including location search and current-location support
• Added automatic recording details and intelligence output-language controls, with improved local summaries, recording chat, and translated-transcript analysis
• Choose the app’s interface language independently from the system: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, German, French, or Dutch
• Language menus now remember frequently selected languages and prioritize them across the app
• Added a redesigned step-by-step introduction covering languages, recording formats, local models, and privacy
• Improved model download progress, deletion, and status reporting, with a complete third-party model and runtime license catalog
• Fixed the Parakeet model permission error, Nemotron timestamp drift, and multiple background transcription, system-audio, and recording stability issues
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