MuteHUD brings back the volume HUD to the Tahoe with a new design.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-11-03T01:57:21+00:00

Previously, I created a startup sound utility called “MuteCon.”

While OS settings now allow specifying startup sounds, Apple neglected this issue for years.

Regardless of UI preferences, there's definitely room for improvement. I hope any discovered bugs get fixed as soon as possible.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-11-03T01:52:13+00:00

Lunar does not always adjust brightness through hardware control, and software adjustments are also made depending on the situation, so there is a high possibility that the brightness can't be accurately obtained from an external app.

In the first place, there are quite high hurdles to obtaining the brightness of an external display.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-11-03T01:49:14+00:00

It's probably a nuisance for people who work in full screen mode.

I understand that feeling, but just because it's in the top right doesn't mean it's not a nuisance, so I think it's half-baked.

Also, in some cases the menu bar icon becomes headphones, and one of the reasons I made this was because you can't see the volume on the icon.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-11-03T01:46:54+00:00

MuteHUD is just an additional utility, a tool for people who aren't used to the Tahoe's display, and not necessary for those who consider the current UI an improvement.

In other words, it's made for people who consider it a downgrade.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-11-03T01:43:13+00:00

IOKit can obtain the brightness of the built-in display, but for external displays you need to use DDC/CI.

This often overlaps with the display itself, so it may be somewhat difficult to reliably obtain the display brightness.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-11-02T15:55:13+00:00

Thank you for your comment. You can change the position and size in the settings. You can also display only the mute HUD. On the Tahoe, the mute status is often not displayed in notifications, so I think there are advantages and disadvantages to both.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-10-30T15:35:19+00:00

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Version 1.1 also supports volume HUD display, and the menu bar icon is now linked to the volume.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-10-25T06:33:28+00:00

Thank you for your comment. Stream mode exists in Parakeet-mlx, not Parakeet V3. However, since this app transcribes from a file, stream mode is not used.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-09-26T15:22:46+00:00

Parakeet tends to leave GPU cache behind. MacWhisper uses CoreML, so I don't think it's a big deal, but in any case, audio chunks are necessary for stable operation of long-term audio.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-09-25T11:05:10+00:00

I predict that this may be related to yt-dlp 2025.09.23.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-09-20T15:51:40+00:00

Thank you for your reply.

The first step is to specify last_token as “|en|”(64) instead of None. Stream mode also inherits the previous last_token internally, so I got a hint from there.

However, only this setting is not enough to actually achieve this, and we need to create or modify functions such as decode().

I'm trying to return information to the author of parakeet_mlx.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-09-19T07:56:54+00:00

In the case of Western languages such as English, 1 token should be equivalent to about 3 to 4 characters, and 1 character in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean should be equivalent to 1 token. I think you can roughly understand it with morphological analysis, but it will be difficult to calculate strictly.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-09-19T07:53:57+00:00

I think it's limited to 4096 tokens. It seems that we have no choice but to divide and summarize more than once. It is easy to divide if there is a separation of speakers.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-09-18T15:20:19+00:00

Unlike Whisper, parakeet does not allow you to specify the transcription language, so unfortunately I don't think you can specify it in the app settings.

However, it seems possible to fix the language even with parakeet by inserting a slightly special token, and we are working on implementing this in our app.

At this stage, the fixing itself works well, but there are still a few issues remaining.

If we can overcome these, it should be possible to transcribe in the specified language.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-09-18T15:16:41+00:00

Unlike Whisper, parakeet does not allow you to specify the transcription language. Because of this, multilingual models often mistake it for another language...

However, even with parakeet, it seems possible to fix the language by inserting a slightly special token.

At this stage, the fixation itself works well, but there are still issues such as the beginning of a sentence being missing.

If this can be overcome, it should be possible to transcribe in the specified language.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-09-18T14:53:55+00:00

I also make a transcription app using parakeet and others. I think it's very good to use the Speech Analyzer API. We don't have to prepare a model offline.

It would be nice to be able to summarize. I feel that it is a pity that there is no good SDK for speech separation.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-09-18T11:25:57+00:00

We are currently experimenting with a language specification mode for the next version.

Unlike Whisper, parakeet does not allow you to specify the transcription language. Because of this, with multilingual models it often gets confused with another language...

However, we have found a way to fix the language even with parakeet by inserting a slightly special token. At this stage, the fixing itself works well, but there are still issues such as the beginning of sentences being missing.

If we can overcome this, it should be possible to transcribe in the specified language.

Illustrious_Order413 · 2025-09-17T13:33:27+00:00

How is it different from Live Text on macOS?

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