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YazSes v2.1.0-dev.1 — Wave D (developer preview)

Pre-release · not published to PyPI/Snap/APT (publish workflows are pinned to the v0.x/v1.x lines; v2 dev tags intentionally do not ship). v1.4.1 remains the stable release. Every feature is OFF by default.

Wave D opens a v2.1 line on top of the complete v2 feature set — a fresh state-of-the-art research round (11 candidate features) and the first four, all on-device and privacy-first. Design in design/vision/v2-research/06-wave-d.md + design/adr/adr-v2-014..017.

New features (ship-now tier, all off by default)

  • Speech Translation (ADR-v2-014, [translate]) — dictate in another language, type English. Uses Whisper's built-in translate task (X→English, zero new downloads); other targets via the opt-in seamless backend.
  • Tone-Aware Formatting (ADR-v2-017, [affect]) — reflects vocal tone as light punctuation (!/?) beyond timing-based Prosody Ink. Conservative by default; the SER model is opt-in behind the affect extra.
  • Predictive Completion (ADR-v2-016, [predict]) — a tiny on-device model proposes the rest of a phrase; accept by voice. Generator opt-in behind the predict extra, runs in a background thread so it never blocks injection.
  • Noise Suppression (ADR-v2-015, [denoise]) — denoise/dereverb before STT so dictation survives noisy rooms and quiet speech clears the VAD gate. Identity passthrough when off; DeepFilterNet backend opt-in behind the denoise extra. Wired into the decode path.

Manage them with yazses features (31 capabilities now; new: translate, affect, predict, denoise).

Researched, not yet built (Wave D backlog)

Ambient Meeting Scribe (streaming diarization), continuous voice-biometric anti-spoof gate, neural-codec ultra-low-latency streaming (Kyutai), voice-grounded RAG over personal docs, silent-speech (sEMG), VLM screen commanding, atypical-speech LoRA. See the research doc.

Quality

910 tests green across Linux × macOS × Windows on Python 3.11 and 3.12. Every new feature's pure logic is unit-tested; heavy backends stay lazy behind optional extras, so the default install and the v1 dictation path are unchanged when everything is off.