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Notable changes to the Heard app and open source engine.

August 20, 2026

Heard 1.2.26

Answer questions right from the notch — tap, type, or say it

When an agent asks you something, you can now answer it directly in the notch three ways, and each lands the exact choice you made:

  • Tap an option — it now always selects the one you picked (no more landing on the default).
  • Type a custom reply in the “Other answer” box.
  • Say it out loud — a spoken option (“the second one”, “Postgres”), or even a natural paraphrase (“let’s be safe and not rush”) maps to the right choice.

The terminal is still there as a fallback, and a question is no longer read aloud twice.

Snappier, steadier voice dictation

Dictation cleanup moved to a faster model and path, so text lands quicker after you speak — and it self-heals if the upstream model changes.

Ambient listening knows when you’re actually on a call

Ambient now pauses only during a real call — when the mic is genuinely in use, including calls in a browser tab — instead of whenever a meeting app just happens to be open. It resumes on its own after you hang up.

Heard 1.2.25

Questions always show in your terminal

Agent questions now always render Claude Code’s interactive menu right in your terminal — the reliable place to answer — for both single questions and multi-part prompts. A question can no longer end up stuck in the notch. The notch stays tappable for a single-choice question; multi-part and multi-select appear as a read-only heads-up that points you to the terminal.