Well they’re at it again… an installer LOCKED to installing into the system drive in the logged in users AppData sub folder which is an insecure place to install executables as it can be written to by any running process, even lowest user rights processes. They also steal GPLv3 licensed build of FFMPEG.EXE binary from FFMPE>ORG and incorporate it illegally into a closed source proprietary licensed product… of course this is released as version 1.0.0 built 11th June 2026 so has never been widely tested prior to release so WE ARE THE UNSUSPECTING BETA TESTERS stuck with a beta version. The AI model is tiny and I seriously doubt this will be effective.
On startup it creates a file called voice-dictation.log in the install location… The log file MUST be allowed to happen and make unnecessary writes to the system drive for their beta testing purposes or the program reports and error in the log module and terminates once you dismiss the error and then tries to download a 450MByte Parakeet 0.6b V3 AI Model from https://softorbits.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/filesNew/parakeet-v3-int8.tar.gz using MSEDGEWEBVIEW2.EXE which if not present is installed during the unfriendly install process. It literally hangs until you allow it to download the file or X it out of the program and it is installed into can’t disclose as the download using msedgewebview2.exe did not function after it was allowed through the systems firewall… so beta test fail! I was able to download the tar.gz file manually using a real web browser so it is there on the digitaloceanspaces.com server… but the program fails to actually download it. So end result is the giveaway is unusable in current form. I suspect the intended destination for downloaded and unpacked tar.gz archive is the hard coded C:\Users\[WINDOWSLOGIN]\AppData\Roaming\com.softorbits.audiovideototext\models