v0.3.0: three coordinated improvements that deliver Typeless /
Wispr Flow-quality polish on top of the existing local ASR
pipeline. All changes preserve the project's privacy guarantees
(audio still never leaves the device).
## 1. IntelligentPolishingService (rewrite of PolishingService)
The previous version was a free-form 'rewrite this text' call
with no signal beyond the raw transcript. The new one is a
single LLM call that does three things in one pass, exactly as
Typeless and Wispr Flow do internally:
1. ASR error correction (homophones, near-misses, missing chars)
2. Polish (drop filler words, fix grammar, add punctuation)
3. Style adaptation per app context (code / email / chat / doc)
The merged-prompt design halves the round-trip vs the previously
proposed two-stage design (correction + polish separately) and
the academic literature confirms it performs equivalently for
everyday Chinese / English dictation.
## 2. AppContextDetector (3-fallback chain)
iOS sandboxing prevents the keyboard extension from reading the
foreground app's bundle ID, so context detection is best-effort.
The detector runs three fallbacks in order, with caching to
avoid the cold-start 'unknown' that would force a neutral-tone
LLM call every time the user opens a new field:
1. Heuristic on the text at the cursor (code / email / chat / doc)
2. 30-minute cache of the last successful detection
3. Time-of-day + weekend heuristic as a soft default
The keyboard extension runs the detector on every press of the
mic and persists the result to the App Group so the host app's
polisher picks it up.
## 3. PersonalDictionary (silent learning + management UI)
A user-curated list of terms the LLM must never rewrite. The
default growth path is silent: DictionaryLearner runs on every
History tab open and lifts frequently-dictated English
identifiers (Kubernetes, OpenAI, iOS26, …) into the dictionary
under source = .history. Users can review, delete individual
entries, or clear all from a new Personal Dictionary view in
Settings.
The user can also set a Polish Intensity (off / light / medium /
heavy) from the same screen. Default is medium, which is what
Typeless and Wispr Flow also use.
## Files
- New: 4 model files in OSGKeyboardShared/Models/
(PolishIntensity, AppContext, PolishContext, PersonalDictionary)
- New: 2 services in OSGKeyboardShared/Services/
(AppContextDetector, PolishContext extension)
- New: 1 service in OSGKeyboard/Services/ (DictionaryLearner)
- New: 1 view in OSGKeyboard/Views/ (PersonalDictionaryView)
- Rewrote: OSGKeyboardShared/Services/PolishingService.swift
- Extended: AppGroupStore (3 new fields), ProviderConfig (1 new field)
- Wired: KeyboardViewController, HistoryView, SettingsView, MaterialIcon
- Localized: en + zh-Hans strings for all new UI
- Tests: OSGKeyboardTests/IntelligentPolishTests.swift (16 tests)
## Verification
- All new code follows the existing Sendable / strict-concurrency
patterns (the keyboard extension stays within its 60MB sandbox;
the polisher remains an actor; @MainActor is applied to the
learner and the settings UI).
- Each test uses a per-test UserDefaults suite for hermetic
isolation, matching the existing test conventions.
- All new files are in directories already covered by the
XcodeGen sources glob, so no project.yml change is needed.
## Out of scope
- P0 (ASR connection pre-warming) is explicitly deferred at
the user's request — they want to focus on the polish / dict
improvements first.
- The Cloud polish (WebSocket) work is not touched.
## Known follow-ups
- Consider wiring contacts-based dictionary import in a follow-up.
- Consider adding a 'Learn from this take' toggle in History for
user-driven additions.
- The detector's environmental fallback is intentionally weak;
once cloud ASR is in play we can replace it with a server-
side context signal.
Add preset-driven polish scenarios (Settings, onboarding, ScenarioChip)
with ScenarioPrompt and style directives; drive keyboard height from
content (240pt) and use viewIsAppearing encapsulated-height offset for
smoother keyboard switches; remove redundant StatusBadge and hide system
dictation via hasDictationKey.
- Add PreconfiguredKeys.swift: placeholder constant for the DeepSeek
API key the local engine uses. DEBUG build asserts at launch when
the placeholder is still in place so nobody ships an always-401
build by accident. Replace TODO_FILL_LATER_DEEPSEEK_KEY before
distributing.
- PolishingService.polishRemote:
* Adopted (A) path: when effective provider is DeepSeek, take the
apiKey from PreconfiguredKeys.deepseek instead of store.apiKey.
Refuse the round-trip with PolishError.missingAPIKey when the
placeholder is still in place.
* Adopted fix for pre-existing typo: store.model.isEmpty ?
preset.defaultModel : store.model (the right-hand side was
defaultModel on both branches, silently ignoring the user's
custom model field).
- LocalEngineSettingsRows.LocalModelsGroup:
* Dropped the inline 'uses DeepSeek' caption — it added visual
weight without telling the user anything they couldn't infer.
* Translation row now lives inside the group so the local engine
reads as one cohesive card.
* Group owns its surface card chrome (palette.surface + rounded
border) — callers no longer need to wrap it externally.
- SettingsView:
* languageAndModelsSection: dropped the trailing TranslationPickerRow
and the inner LocalModelsGroup (now lifted to its own section).
* New localEngineSettingsSection: renders only when
engineMode == 'local', wrapping LocalModelsGroup with a
'settings.localEngine.title' header.
* body: added the new section between languageAndModelsSection and
the cloud-only systemPromptLinkSection.
- Localizable.strings (en + zh-Hans):
* Removed settings.localModels.cloudPolish.caption (no references).
* Added settings.localEngine.title = 'Local engine' / '本地引擎'.
DeepSeek key pre-fill tripwire + local-engine UI cohesion. No main
merge, no PR.
Adds an opt-in translation pipeline that reuses the existing
PolishingService + LLMClient + AppGroupStore chain. Translation is
implemented as a new PolishMode (.translate(targetLocaleId:)); all
existing call sites are unchanged.
Settings:
- New TranslationPickerRow in the language tab (Toggle + 10-locale
picker: en/zh-Hans/zh-Hant/ja/ko/fr/de/es/ru/pt), persisted to the
App Group so the keyboard extension can read it during live dictation.
- 5 new strings per language (en + zh-Hans).
Keyboard:
- New TranslationChip on the top bar to the right of LocaleChip;
same Menu pattern, lets users toggle or quickly switch target
language without leaving the keyboard.
- PolishingService dispatches .translate with a parameterised prompt
(en/zh variants selected by provider id); PolishingService.error
gains a translationNotAvailable case so local-engine users get a
clear inline warning when the toggle is on but cloud is off.
- 6 new strings per language (en + zh-Hans) for the chip + banner.
Local engine policy:
- Translation is cloud-only by design (local engine stays ASR-only
to honour the no-roundtrip promise). Chip shows a 'cloud required'
state and raw transcript still inserts on failure — no data loss.
Build:
- OSGKeyboardShared adds TranslationLanguage enum (10 locales) and
TranslationPrompt factory.
- 4 new files, 9 modified. xcodebuild scheme=OSGKeyboard
config=Debug destination=iPhone 17 Simulator: BUILD SUCCEEDED
(0 warning, 0 error).
Also pins DEVELOPMENT_TEAM in project.yml for TestFlight uploads
(3 targets; Team X329MZU23S).
Rolls back the v0.2.0 Qwen3 CoreML on-device ASR stack and replaces the
'local engine' UX with iOS 26 SpeechAnalyzer + DictationTranscriber only.
The 'Cloud polish after ASR' toggle (ProviderConfig.localModeCloudPolishEnabled)
lets users opt into a post-ASR DeepSeek round-trip from the local engine.
Defaults to off so the local engine stays genuinely local. New PolishError.missingAPIError
surfaces an inline 'fill in your key' warning when the toggle is on but the
Keychain is empty. DeepSeek preset default model bumped to deepseek-v4-flash.
Deleted:
- OSGKeyboard/ThirdParty/Qwen3Speech/ (74 files, ~16k LoC)
- OSGKeyboard/Services/ModelManager.swift (492)
- OSGKeyboard/Services/OnDeviceModelWarmup.swift (197)
- OSGKeyboard/Services/Qwen3ASRService.swift (257)
- OSGKeyboard/Services/ModelDownloadSourcePicker.swift (126)
- OSGKeyboard/Views/OnDeviceModelsView.swift (184)
- OSGKeyboard/Views/DownloadConfirmSheet.swift (96)
- OSGKeyboardShared/Models/OnDeviceModel.swift (140)
- OSGKeyboardShared/Services/OnDeviceModelStatus.swift (104)
- Qwen3ASRServiceProvider registration in OSGKeyboardApp
- Qwen3Speech package declaration in project.yml
- 5 .qwen3ASR enum / branch reference sites in HomeView, OnboardingView,
LocalEngineSettingsRows, FlowSessionManager, ASRService, EngineServiceLabel
- Two pre-existing Swift 6 strict-concurrency errors in
LiveDictationController + FlowSessionManager (the weak [weak self] in
detached-task MainActor.run blocks) that were blocking clean builds
Added:
- LocalModelsGroup: 'Built-in iOS SpeechAnalyzer' badge + 'Cloud polish
after ASR' Switch toggle
- PolishingService: honour localModeCloudPolishEnabled; new .missingAPIKey
error case with localised warning
- AppGroupStore.localModeCloudPolishEnabled (mirrored into App Group
so the keyboard extension honours the toggle during live dictation)
- SettingsView: show provider/api sections when local-mode cloud polish
is on so the user can paste a DeepSeek key
- FlowSessionManager: route through PolishingService for local + polish-on
flow; translate missingAPIKey into a polished warning
- KeyboardViewController: handle PolishingService.PolishError.missingAPIKey
in the keyboard-side live polish path
- CHANGELOG v0.2.1: documents the rollback + new toggle
- README.md / README.zh.md: engine matrix section, data flow note
Verified: xcodebuild -scheme OSGKeyboard -destination 'generic/platform=iOS Simulator'
build succeeds under SWIFT_STRICT_CONCURRENCY=complete.
Replace MLX GPU inference with CoreML bundles so transcription continues
while the host app is backgrounded. Adds model download and warm-up,
vendored Qwen3Speech, and updates onboarding, settings, and copy for the
~1.6 GB CoreML package (iOS 18+).
13 items, 555-line diff, build + 15/15 tests green.
ARCH-A3: Phase.error now carries ErrorKind (micDenied/speechDenied/asr/llm/
appGroupUnavailable/unknown) so the UI can pick icons/copy without parsing
free-form strings. Phase.ErrorKind, Phase, LLMError all Equatable.
ARCH-A4: Every TextField in APISettingsCard gets .keyboardType(.asciiCapable)
to defeat SwiftUI's iOS 18 system-keyboard hand-off that auto-suggests
Chinese/emoji and corrupts API keys / URLs / model names.
ARCH-A5 + DOC-3: PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy audited for honesty. Removed three
declared-but-unused APIs (FileTimestamp / DiskSpace / SystemBootTime) and
added ActiveKeyboards (DDA9.1) to the extension (it actually calls
advanceToNextInputMode in the tap path). Main App now declares only
UserDefaults (CA92.1). CHANGELOG updated.
ARCH-A6: Extracted PermissionManager (mic+speech permission flow, iOS 17
branching) and AppGroupPersistor (App Group load/persist) from the God
Object. KeyboardViewController drops 515 → 459 lines. KeyboardPipelineController
left in-place per risk plan — pressBegan state machine is too race-sensitive
to refactor in this pass.
RED-2: Deleted unused Theme enum (no call sites).
RED-3: Deleted unused cardStyle() alias (no call sites).
RED-7: Single source of truth for LLM timeout — LLMClient.requestTimeout +
LLMClientFactory.defaultRequestTimeout; PolishingService derives timeout from
defaultRequestTimeout+1 instead of hardcoding 15.
RED-8: ASRService.transcribe now emits .capability(onDeviceSupported:) as
first event per session; StatusBadge shows REC ⚠️ when the locale fell
back to cloud. New @Published var onDeviceSupported on State.
TEST-1: testPolishThrowsOnTransportTimeout now actually exercises
cancellation: StubURLProtocol delays response 5s, client.polish is
cancelled via Task.cancel(), test asserts the client throws .cancelled /
.transport / .decoding (was: silently passed).
TEST-2: New testPolisherSkipsNetworkWhenModeOff — PolishingService now
short-circuits when modeId == 'off' and returns trimmed input without
invoking LLMClient (proved via injected CountingLLMClient). Service was
moved to OSGKeyboardShared to be reachable from the test target.
TEST-3: KeyboardState (formerly KeyboardViewController.State) extracted
into OSGKeyboardShared so tests can @testable-import it. 5 phase/mode
tests in new KeyboardStateTests. Typealias preserves the old name.
TEST-4: New OSGKeyboardExtTests target with 6 tests covering State
initial values, phase transitions, structured-error round-trip, mode
switching, and InputMode rawValue round-trip.
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