Changelog — MeetingCoach for Mac

0.5.8 July 17, 2026

Slack huddles are now detected
Dictation no longer triggers "meeting detected"
Meetings in the browser (Meet, Zoom web) are detected more reliably
New here? The progress pane now walks you through your first session in three steps
Fixed a crash when notification permission was denied

Transcript export now uses a Zoom-style format, and speaker turns split cleanly at speaker boundaries
The local AI engine restarts itself if it ever dies mid-session

Sessions start instantly — no more waiting on the transcription-model download; the higher-accuracy engine fetches in the background and takes over next session
Coaching styles work without a local AI model via built-in presets
Fixed wall-of-text transcripts when running mic-only

New to Meeting Coach? A short demo replays a sample meeting with real nudges on first launch — no mic, no permissions, no downloads
Live talk meter: a thin You/Them bar in the overlay and transcript shows your share of the conversation as it happens (orange past 65%)
Reviews work without an AI model: an instant on-device review appears after every session; the AI review remains when a model is installed
Share your recap: copy or share the post-meeting review (summary, talk ratio, commitments) straight to Slack or email
Make the coach yours: the new Coaching Style panel turns a plain-English description ("coach me to stop rambling") into your own rubric — toggle any signal, tune how eagerly it fires, add custom signals the AI watches live
The coach now improves itself, with your approval: it proposes rubric changes backed by your feedback ("you rated this Wrong 8 of 10 times — turn it off?"); nothing changes silently
Your progress lives in the main window: day streaks, week-over-week nudge and talk-share trends, top patterns, and up to two focus goals that sharpen the signals you care about
Tell it your role: coaching setup tunes the rubric to how you sell, manage, or run meetings
Meeting auto-detect (off by default): a menu bar icon offers "Start coaching?" when a meeting app and your mic go live — recording never starts without your click

Export your transcript: after a session ends, a small download button appears at the top of the transcript panel — click it to save the transcript as a text file

The coach now praises too: green nudges reinforce your best moves the moment they happen — a great open question that gets them talking, handing someone the decision, refocusing a drifting room, locking commitments, and reflecting their point back
Much more accurate transcripts — a new on-device engine (Parakeet) replaces Apple's speech recognizer. Still 100% on your Mac; downloads a ~600 MB model on first session (falls back to the old engine if the model can't load)
Fixed: the other side's voice no longer bleeds into your ("You") side of the transcript when you're on speakers — measured on a real call, wrong-speaker words dropped from ~3,800 to ~500
Their side of the transcript now comes through in full sentences instead of 2-3 word fragments, and stops dropping quiet words
Fixed: large blank spaces between transcript lines, and lines duplicating once speakers were identified

Fixed: transcripts turning into garbled fragments during calls (a 0.4.3 regression)

Fixed: starting a session no longer reduces your call or system volume at all
Smoother transcripts — sentences no longer get chopped into fragments during pauses
The mic no longer switches into "call mode" when a session starts

Fixed: starting a session no longer makes the rest of your Mac's audio very quiet
Transcripts now tell speakers apart — turns are labeled Speaker 1, Speaker 2, … on phone and in-person calls, processed 100% on your Mac
Words appear in the transcript as you say them, instead of arriving in delayed chunks
Fixed: transcription silently produced nothing on some microphone setups
Fixed: high CPU usage when no audio was flowing
Adding participant names in Pre-Call Setup now improves how accurately they're transcribed
Fixed a large blank gap that could appear in the transcript pane

Fixed: downloading a model on first launch no longer fails with "Could not connect to the server"
Fixed: the recommended gemma4 models can now actually be downloaded (updated built-in AI engine)
Download problems now show a clear error message instead of silently doing nothing
The app no longer leaves its AI engine running after you quit

Simpler pre-call setup: meeting type is inferred, participants suggested as chips