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# August 15, 2026

## 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](/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.

> Heard is the voice layer for coding agents on macOS. Spoken progress from Claude Code and Codex, hands-free replies, and Heard Parrot codebase Q&A. Docs cover setup, listening modes, plans, and privacy.