hex

Hex 3.2.0

new

• a new first run on every os: hex sets itself up and downloads the speech model for your language, then you try it by answering a few practice messages with your shortcut
• if hex finds speech models already on your computer (in the hugging face cache), the first run lists them next to the recommended one in one simple list, so you can skip the download
• models: hebrew (ivrit.ai's whisper large v3 turbo) and nemotron 3.5 asr streaming 0.6b
• the interface speaks brazilian portuguese (português (brasil))
• the microphone is one switch beside the picker, and settings say what each microphone mode means for privacy
• speech engine has an auto / gpu / cpu setting, and hex remembers a gpu that hung so auto stays on the cpu for it

fixes

• dictation no longer gets cut off after 2.5 seconds on mics that add a steady dc offset, like some built-in laptop mics (#841). 3.1.2 fixed this for quiet mics
• escape no longer cancels a dictation, so a stray key can't throw away what you said
• windows: dictations no longer pile up in clipboard history (win+v), and pasting works in remote desktop sessions
• linux: kde wayland hotkeys work when the portal starts before plasma, the shortcut recorder takes home, end, page up/down and arrows, the hyprland shortcut docs are current, and annotate records video on intel + nvidia laptops
• mac: the recording indicator lands in the right place on a second display, and gather calls get detected along with arc, meet and whatsapp
• long menus and pickers show that they scroll
• the homepage at https://anoma.ly/hex is faster

Hex 3.1.2

Fixes

• Dictation no longer gets cut off. With a quiet built-in microphone, Hex could keep only the first 2.5 seconds of a dictation and paste that as if nothing was wrong. It now keeps all of it, and a dictation that comes out empty is never dropped silently.
• Escape no longer cancels a dictation, so a stray key press can't throw away what you said.
• Windows: numpad keys work as shortcuts with Num Lock off, punctuation shortcuts keep working after a keyboard layout switch, and the shortcut recorder shows your layout's punctuation.
• History: clearing History stays cleared. A background cleanup could write an old copy back, restoring cleared entries and dropping new ones.
• Meetings: calls in Arc (including Google Meet) and WhatsApp are detected.
• The recording indicator follows the pointer to another display during a dictation.
• Linux: Hex runs in the background and launches at login through the desktop's Background portal, GNOME without a shortcuts portal can add Hex's shortcuts in one click, and quitting works on NVIDIA Wayland.
• macOS: Korean and other CJK text displays correctly.

New

• Hebrew, with ivrit.ai's fine-tune of Whisper Large v3 Turbo.
• Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B.
• Hex can use speech models already on your computer instead of downloading them again.

Hex 3.1.1

Fixes

• Hex opens again when a setting it can't read is in its settings file. 3.1.0 quit silently at launch for anyone who had used a recent Dev build.
• GNOME and KDE (Wayland): asking for and approving global shortcuts works, with a safe default shortcut, a warning when it clashes with the desktop's, and a hint for asking again if the desktop declines. Paste closes its remote-control session after each paste, including on GNOME 46, and KDE restores your clipboard afterwards.
• Linux: a long dictation no longer sits in Transcribing for a minute after the OpenCode rewrite times out. Hex's sound output closes after its tones, so it doesn't linger in the desktop's sound controls. Launch at login keeps working after Hex moves, and the window resizes properly on floating desktops.
• Whisper Large v3 Turbo accepts Tamil and Telugu.
• macOS: an external microphone works with the lid closed, and Settings clears stale permission rows with one-click recovery.
• Meetings are kept for 24 hours by default; older meetings stay until you choose how long to keep them.
• The homepage at https://anoma.ly/hex is faster.

New in Labs

Each is off until you turn it on in Settings › Labs:

• Left and right modifier keys as separate shortcut keys.
• Hold and Toggle together as a dictation shortcut mode.
• Filters and sorting in the speech model picker.
• Benchmark explanations in the speech model picker.

Hex 3.1.0

Requirements

• On Windows and Linux x64, Hex now needs a 2013 or newer processor with AVX2 (Intel Haswell / AMD Excavator or later). On an older processor Hex shows a message and quits instead of crashing.

Fixes

• Windows: the recording indicator appears reliably, and says why when it can't. Laptops with both an integrated and a dedicated GPU no longer crash at launch, and transcription survives a GPU that crashes.
• Windows: paste works in more apps, including VS Code's terminal.
• Meetings: starting, saving and deleting recordings, and the error banner, are fixed.
• Annotate captures the screen and draws correctly again.
• Linux: global shortcuts work on GNOME and KDE Wayland, including changing and cancelling them, and Hex's icon shows everywhere.
• The recording indicator follows you: it appears on the monitor under the pointer.
• Hex only talks to an OpenCode that's already running and no longer starts one itself.
• Fixed a crash at startup on some Windows and Linux PCs (the CPU fix above).
• Dictation with a Bluetooth microphone, double-tap on X11, and punctuation at the end of a dictation are fixed.

New

• QwenCleo-ASR 1.7B for Egyptian Arabic.
• Recognition hints now apply to Qwen3-ASR models, and hints are merged into Vocabulary, so there's one list of names and terms.
• Meetings can be kept for 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or forever.
• New Labs toggles, each off until you turn it on: free the speech model's memory when unused, spoken formatting ("new line", "new paragraph", quotes), remove filler words, and Restore default for the Paste last dictation shortcut. On macOS also: keep the dictation on the clipboard, copy instead of paste, a second dictation shortcut, smart spacing, and subtitle export for meetings.

Moved to Labs (now off until you turn them on)

Turn these back on in Settings › Labs:

• macOS: mouse buttons as shortcuts.
• Switching the speech model with the keyboard language.
• macOS: pausing the browser along with other media while dictating.
• Windows: letting apps such as Discord see the dictation shortcut too.