Product updates

Heard 1.1.53

Heard Parrot: talk to your codebase

Hold the talk key, say your narrator’s name (or “Hey Parrot”), and ask about the repo you are working in — architecture, behavior, where a feature lives. Parrot digs read-only and answers out loud. It can also open apps and projects by voice, and that is the only action it takes. See Heard Parrot.

Catch me up

Say “catch me up” or “what did I miss?” after stepping away and hear a fresh recap of exactly the window you were gone — what landed, what is running, and what is waiting on you. “Catch me up on everything” sweeps every active project at once, mission by mission.

The Liquid Glass notch is the default

The minimal translucent conductor: click a lane to surface its terminal, reply from the panel, answer questions and permissions in place. Idle sessions collapse into a quiet fold, and status marks stay honest — green under an hour after finishing, white cross after, off the board at 24 hours untouched. Classic remains available in Settings → Notch.

Voice that explains itself

The push-to-talk key is never silently dead. If something is missing — sign-in, microphone, Accessibility — the HUD says exactly what when you press it, and the notch shows a persistent notice with a Grant shortcut. “Something not working?” in the menu bar now checks the entire voice chain live and can repair stale macOS permission grants in one click.

Courtesy mute, simplified

Any app using the microphone holds narration; held lines replay afterward as a catch-up. Recording a demo? Turn “Stay quiet during calls” off and narration stays on the track.

Dictation dictionary sync

Your custom vocabulary now syncs with your account, so it survives updates and reinstalls.

Fixes

The pro→Power welcome tour resumes where it left off if anything interrupts it. Session lanes follow your recent work, so a long-running session can no longer wear another project’s name. A status-line bug affecting existing installs self-heals on first launch. Dozens of stability fixes across the notch, voice pipeline, and session board from three full audit passes.