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YazSes v1.4.1 — Stable baseline

Released: 2026-07-01 · PyPI · Snap (stable + edge) · APT · GitHub

v1.4.1 is the stable baseline of YazSes as a focused, offline, hold-to-talk voice-dictation and voice-command daemon. Everything in the "dictation era" of the project works well and ships cleanly across all channels from the canonical home MSKazemi/yazses.

This release is deliberately marked as a checkpoint: the next line of work opens a new area for YazSes (a broader voice-first human–computer interaction layer), which will be developed and released separately. v1.4.1 is the version to fall back to for a rock-solid, single-purpose dictation experience.

What works well as of v1.4.1

  • Hold-to-talk dictation into any focused app on Linux, macOS, and Windows, fully offline via faster-whisper (CPU int8) — no cloud, no API key.
  • Voice commands & basic keystrokes (Tier-1 regex grammar, optional SLM router).
  • Voice punctuation & formatting (opt-in): "comma", "period", "new line", …
  • Selectable injection backend (auto / type / clipboard / wtype) with a Wayland flood guard for Ubuntu 26+ compositors.
  • Opt-in encrypted on-device learning (yazses tune, mark-wrong, corpus) and the dormant v2 cognitive-layer scaffolding — all off by default, privacy-first.
  • Turnkey ops: yazses doctor, setup, features, vocab, hotkey, restart.

Fixed in v1.4.1

  • Cross-platform imports — system/setup, inject/auto, inject/clipboard now import cleanly on Windows/macOS (lazy grp/pwd, guarded os.getuid), restoring a green test matrix on Linux × macOS × Windows for Python 3.11 & 3.12.
  • Snap release reliability — a tagged release on the canonical repo now fails loudly when the Snap Store credential is missing instead of silently skipping the publish; PyPI publishing is idempotent (skip-existing).

Install

pip install yazses            # or: uv tool install yazses
sudo snap install yazses      # stable channel

Looking ahead

The v2 effort explores a set of novel, privacy-first, on-device features that extend YazSes from "dictation" toward a broader voice-first interaction layer. Design artifacts (ADRs, specs, architecture, roadmap) are tracked in design/ and the active plan in .claude/plans/. v1.4.1 remains the recommended stable release until v2 features graduate from experimental.