# What we're building now YazSes is developed in the open, and this page shows where it stands. The sections marked *generated* are produced from the repository each time the site is built: from [`CHANGELOG.md`](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md) and the [release notes](releases/index.md). They are as current as the site, and they cannot say anything the changelog does not. For where the project is *going*, read the [roadmap](roadmap.md). This page covers what is happening now. ## Latest release *Generated.* **Latest release: [v2.43.2](releases/v2.43.2.md)**, published 2026-10-18 — *no more words nobody said*. A loud burst with no speech in it is no longer decoded into the vocabulary prompt, a stray hold-release no longer re-types the previous dictation, and eyes-closed dictation no longer fires on a blink or stays off after a glance away. [:material-download: Install or upgrade](get-started.md){ .md-button .md-button--primary } [:material-tag: All releases on GitHub](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/releases){ .md-button } ## On `main`, not yet released *Generated.* Each item below is a change that has landed on `main` with its tests and will ship in the next release. Each one is a heading in the changelog's `[Unreleased]` section, where the full entry explains what changed and why. **97 changes are on `main` and not yet in a release** — Fixed 47 · Added 34 · Changed 6 · Tests 6 · Security 2 · Docs 1 · Performance 1.
Every unreleased change, grouped by kind **Fixed** (47) - the docs' memory and Docker-image figures are re-measured, and four stale status lines corrected - Linux: enabling a voiceprint feature no longer downloads the CUDA build of PyTorch - the website made 27 failing requests on every page view, and its home-page title named the product twice - install and status pages that had drifted from the code and the live channels - on Windows, the whole keyboard no longer lags while a dictation transcribes - with Microsoft Store Python on Windows, `yazses status` and `stop` see the running daemon - on Windows, no empty terminal window at sign-in after `yazses start` ([#330](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/330)) - `yazses autostart disable` stays disabled - `scoop uninstall yazses` removes the start-at-login entry - `yazses stop` stops YazSes, tray icon included, instead of being undone by it - the Windows tray greys out a Meeting Mode entry that cannot work, and says why - the Windows install guide's facts - the Windows add-on spike's bind check reported a correct bind as FAIL - with `yazses remote` connected, dictation was typed on this machine instead of the remote one - updating will not break OpenCV (cv2) for camera-feature users - dictated text no longer reaches the log when a keystroke tool fails - `yazses report` no longer carries your home directory - long streaming corrections on Wayland could delete text outside the dictation - smaller defects found by new regression tests - the one-click Windows update never ran the installer (unreleased feature) - "install it with…" messages name a command that works on your install, and `yazses update` recognises a uv tool under a custom `UV_TOOL_DIR` - the MCP `transcribe` tool and `meeting recover` now decode with your model, language, device and precision - a non-English language on an English-only model is refused, not typed as English ([#515](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/515)) - Persian and Arabic names keep their punctuation in the tray, Settings and notifications ([#516](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/516)) - pushing a release tag no longer turns every open pull request red ([#602](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/602)) - Mandarin text no longer gains spaces, loses commas or doubles on the way to the app ([#501](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/501)) - implicit gaze calibration kept old eye positions too long, and across a layout change ([#397](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/397)) - Mandarin commands: a sentence could become a go-to-file/function/class, and numerals were not bounded where they should be ([#499](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/499)) - a language switch is proven whole before it lands, and doctor names the real command grammar ([#497](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/497)) - the hands-free controls window lists only stop routes that exist, and tells the truth about installs ([#420](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/420)) - a Mac without the Accessibility grant now says so when the Head-Pointer starts ([#402](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/402)) - the Wayland keyboard and pointer could write to their shared portal connection at the same time ([#403](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/403)) - implicit gaze calibration: the promotion verdict is a pure function, and the schema version is read ([#398](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/398)) - a face switch bound to `pause_pointer` did nothing while the global stop was off ([#407](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/407)) - an eyes-closed face switch could fire on an ordinary blink when the shared camera ran at 30 fps ([#406](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/406)) - a half-made Gesture Chord token no longer survives a hands-free Pause and Resume ([#408](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/408)) - an update could still delete an enabled feature's libraries, and a dead feature looked healthy - the eye-control CI matrix lost its macOS leg to a new Homebrew Python ([#424](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/424)) - an eye-eval outcomes file could carry free text in a face-switch record ([#422](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/422)) - a camera feature could be switched on in a package that cannot run one ([#414](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/414)) - hands-free health named the camera for a model failure, and called a stalled camera "tracking valid" ([#416](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/416)) - macOS: no Accessibility or microphone prompt was ever raised, and `doctor` names a daemon that predates a grant ([#562](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/562), [#578](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/578)) - Mandarin: `yazses transcribe` ignored `[stt] chinese_script`, and the opt-in Hallucination Guard could drop a Han sentence - `yazses start` keeps waiting through a transient IPC error, and says which endpoint stayed silent (#330) - calibration no longer sets the gate from how loudly the sample was spoken ([#579](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/579)) - a damaged gaze calibration file could still read as valid (#415, ADR-v2-149) - a face gesture begun before Resume no longer completes after it (#417) **Added** (34) - six accessibility features you can now turn on (experimental, off by default) - implicit gaze calibration can now see real clicks on X11, Windows and macOS ([#607](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/607)) - ADR-029 "Runtime residency": RAM and CPU proportional to what is enabled (Proposed) - the website shows what is being built right now, and a three-step quick start for every OS - a licence check holds back any Windows add-on whose licences are unclear (ADR-028 Q7) - a reviewed licence text can stand in for one a library does not ship (ADR-028 Q7) - install a Windows add-on from a file with no network, and the uninstaller removes your add-ons (ADR-028 questions 4 and 5) - add-on packs use YazSes's own ONNX Runtime (unreleased feature, ADR-028 M1) - add-ons are downloaded again after a one-click Windows update (ADR-028 Q3, unreleased feature) - the missing signal producers for six unwired accessibility features (#164) - benchmark and evaluation tooling for Mandarin and Persian - READY eye/camera validation slots appear in the contributor task finder ([#456](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/456)) - the Settings window checks for updates and installs dormant features - one written response to a red check, and quarantines that expire ([#538](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/538)) - a daily CI telemetry report: queue time, runtime, cancellation and failure hot spots ([#536](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/536)) - a written, checkable milestone policy for open issues ([#480](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/480)) - a switched-on feature installs its own libraries at the moment it needs them, with one action, and an install can no longer break the base - the Windows release builds feature add-on packs (ADR-028, build side of phases 0–1) - add-on packs: the Windows installer build can turn on Parakeet and diarization (ADR-028, runtime side) - the live traceability audit now reports issue-tracker drift, advisory only ([#487](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/487)) - the gaze field report now gives error percentiles and zone hit rates, and its validator rejects any report that could leak ([#399](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/399)) - face-switch false-activation replay: nuisance traces and a swappable detector ([#409](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/409)) - the Wayland gaze target is a cited capability model, and "close this" on Wayland is refused out loud ([#418](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/418)) - the hands-free preset is a `features` capability, and every way on checks its safety floor ([#410](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/410)) - `ci-gate`, one stable check for branch protection to require ([#462](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/462)) - one-click update on Windows ([ADR-027](design/adr/adr-027-one-click-windows-update.md)) - release validation standard, platform validation matrix and macOS campaign (docs only) - paper-v2 tables and figure data are generated from the archived results (#508) - Persian benchmark: the manifest gate, recorded selection seed, and stated scoring rules (FA-04, #513) - per-decode cost records, a versioned cost schema and battery/macOS energy paths (#506) - benchmark harness can record CPU core-seconds and optional energy (#506) - language output profiles: one registry keyed by the STT language (FA-01, #509) - eye-control results reuse the paper benchmark's provenance instead of describing it twice (#421) - `examples/config.discord.toml`, a Windows 11 profile for Discord **Changed** (6) - the README now opens with what YazSes is, what it does, how to install it, and how to help - the Windows installer carries Parakeet's engine and Chinese script conversion; the diarization add-on runs on the installer's ONNX Runtime - documentation and project tooling - five disabled features no longer load at daemon start, and the CLI no longer imports the config for `--version` - the eye-validation registry declares every issue it names, and what hardware each cell needs ([#454](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/454)) - macOS install guide: the Open Anyway route first, and how to find a leftover daemon ([#562](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/562)) **Tests** (6) - Glance-Type on the shared camera sees the same model and the same device ([#396](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/396)) - the Head-Pointer is proven reachable through the daemon, not only importable ([#404](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/404)) - every Head-Pointer state, every way in and out, on a fake clock ([#405](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/405)) - one MediaPipe result, three channels: every subset and every absence ([#395](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/395)) - the PointerSink contract now covers bounds and permanence ([#400](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/400)) - the shared camera owner is now held to its contract at the daemon, not only on its own (#394) **Security** (2) - the Windows diarization add-on stays unreleased: its libraries embed GPL code - 20 of 21 open dependency advisories closed by upgrading, the last one assessed ([#116](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues/116)) **Docs** (1) - the machine-drafted translations say offline "by default", not "never" **Performance** (1) - a feature that is off no longer slows every start, and a test now holds that line
Want one of these before it is released? Install from `main` with `pipx install git+https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses` and report what you find. A test on real hardware is the most useful contribution there is. ## Recent releases *Generated.* Every release has a notes page that says what changed and how to upgrade. | Release | Date | What it brought | |---|---|---| | [v2.43.2](releases/v2.43.2.md) | 2026-10-18 | no more words nobody said | | [v2.43.1](releases/v2.43.1.md) | 2026-10-17 | fixes from the first macOS reports, and what ARM Windows PCs install | | [v2.43.0](releases/v2.43.0.md) | 2026-10-17 | a second keyboard works, and five opt-in features you can now turn on | | [v2.42.0](releases/v2.42.0.md) | 2026-10-04 | prove that typing arrives | | [v2.41.0](releases/v2.41.0.md) | 2026-10-04 | dictation that was heard and typed into nothing | | [v2.40.1](releases/v2.40.1.md) | 2026-09-25 | hold the key we actually listen for | Follow new releases without an account: [RSS](https://mskazemi.com/yazses/feed_rss_created.xml) · [JSON Feed](https://mskazemi.com/yazses/feed_json_created.json) · [GitHub releases](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/releases). ## How YazSes is built A small set of rules holds every change in place. Tests enforce them; a reviewer does not have to remember them. | Rule | What it means for you | Where it is held | |---|---|---| | **Nothing leaves the machine** | Audio, transcripts and the learning corpus stay on your computer. No telemetry, analytics or crash reporting. | A test fails the build when a module gains a network call that is not registered and classified ([ADR-019](design/adr/adr-019-egress-inventory-and-escalation.md)) | | **New features ship off** | Upgrading never changes what your install does until you switch something on. | Every feature has a config section whose default is dormant ([features](features.md)) | | **Heavy dependencies are optional** | The base install stays small. Torch, ONNX, Qt and similar libraries arrive only with the feature that needs them. | Optional extras, imported lazily, and a test that a disabled feature costs a default start nothing | | **Pure logic, injected backends** | The decision-making code is unit-tested directly, without a microphone or a model. | The [architecture](architecture.md): pure modules beside swappable engines | | **Every OS behind one interface** | Linux, macOS and Windows differences live in one place, which is also what makes an Android port possible. | Protocols in `platform/base.py` ([platform support](platform-support.md)) | | **Tests come with the change** | A behaviour change arrives with the test that proves it. | The suite runs on Linux, macOS and Windows for every push and pull request | | **Decisions are written down** | You can read *why* something works the way it does, including what was declined. | [Architecture decision records](design/adr/index.md) | The code is Python 3.11+, managed with [`uv`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/). Speech-to-text is [faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper) on the CPU by default; [NVIDIA Parakeet TDT and Moonshine](models.md) are opt-in engines. The full stack is in the [architecture overview](architecture.md) and its [diagrams](diagrams/index.md). ## Where the work is organised - **[Milestones](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/milestones)**. Each one is an outcome you can help reach: the Settings window, installing anywhere, hearing better, voice control, the first-hour experience, hands-free input, and Android. - **[Roadmap](roadmap.md)**. The direction, from dictation tool to keyboard-optional computing, and the principles that do not move. - **[Research](research/index.md)**. The cited science behind each design choice, plus [open questions](research/agenda.md) for students and researchers. - **[Discussions](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/discussions)**. Ideas, questions and show-and-tell. ## Join in Most first contributions need no knowledge of the codebase, and many need no code at all: testing on your own hardware, translating, adding a microphone that worked for you, or improving a page like this one. [:material-hand-heart-outline: Find a task that fits](contribute/start.md){ .md-button .md-button--primary } [:material-github: Open issues](https://github.com/MSKazemi/yazses/issues){ .md-button } [:material-robot-outline: Contributing with an AI agent](contribute/ai-agents.md){ .md-button }