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How Cleft's transcription got fast, private, and accurate
Cleft has transcribed your voice on-device since the first builds; the cloud only handled the summary step. Why we chose that early, and how we made it fast.
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Behind-the-scenes technical notes, founder notes, and build logs.
AuthorsJonathan and Justin
ShapeBuild notes, tradeoffs, and OSS work
CadencePublished when there is a real build story
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Bringing Cleft to the car
CarPlay is the most constrained surface we've shipped: no screen, templated controls, and signal you can lose at speed. How those limits shaped the feature.
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Quieter under the hood: a quarter spent on reliability
1.12 through 1.12.3 added almost no new buttons on purpose. We spent the quarter making the app you already use harder to break.
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Recording that survives the real world
The hard part of a voice app is clean audio on real devices that connect late, switch mid-sentence, and drop calls. Here's how we made recording survive that.
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Rebuilding sync so your notes just show up
People wanted a black hole to dump a thought into and trust it synced everywhere. Sync had drifted from that, so for 1.10.1 we rebuilt the sync layer.
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Liquid Speech: opening up native Apple transcription for Flutter
Justin published Liquid Speech: an MIT-licensed Flutter package for Apple's native SpeechAnalyzer API that still compiles cleanly on older iOS and macOS.
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Getting react-native-skia to build for Mac Catalyst
react-native-skia wouldn't compile for Mac Catalyst during an early Cleft build. I revived a stalled community fix and got it merged upstream in v2.3.0.