Roadmap
Last updated: 2026-09-22 · version 2.0.6 is what ships today
What has actually shipped, what the owner is running daily before anyone else gets it, and the real decisions still open. See /status for what is live right now and /accuracy for how we measure recognition quality.
No dates. This page names decisions and work, not deadlines. A "Next" item can sit there for a long time, or turn out to be the wrong call and never ship at all — we would rather say that plainly than promise a date we might miss.
Shipped
Live today, in version 2.0.6
2.0.5
A 14-day full-Pro trial with no credit card, and a permanent Free plan — 2,000 words a week, no card, no time limit.
2.0.5
AI cleanup through Apple Intelligence, on macOS 26 and later — opt-in, off unless you turn it on.
2.0.5
Per-app dictation rules on the Pro plan, so the same words can behave differently in a terminal than in an email.
2.0.5
Screen-context vocabulary biasing reads the whole field or document you're dictating into, not just what happens to be visible on screen — off by default, one switch in the Hub.
2.0.5
Dictation history is no longer deleted on a timer. Earlier builds quietly purged your local log after 30 days; now it only ever rotates into a new file — nothing is removed unless you remove it.
2.0.3
A purchased licence now binds to the Mac that activates it, closing an earlier gap where one licence file could be copied to any number of machines.
2.0.3
File transcription (tessen transcribe and the menu's "Transcribe Audio File…") now checks your licence like every other Pro feature — it used to run for free past an expired trial.
2.0.2
Every release is signed and notarized by Apple, with a stapled ticket, so macOS can verify the download before it ever runs — see /status.
In dogfood now
The owner's own daily driver, not yet public
Hardening
Dictation pasting is no longer silently refused for a whole session in some Chromium-based apps. A prior fix misread a macOS anti-eavesdropping flag as if it meant "this field is a password field."
Hardening
Both file and live transcripts no longer lose their opening words on some recordings — a real, measured defect in the on-device recognizer's handling of longer audio, now detected and recovered on both engine paths.
Measurement
tessen transcribe gained a --no-bias flag, so the same recording can be run with vocabulary biasing on and off and compared — see /accuracy.
Hub
The Hub (the local history and settings window) gained real keyboard navigation and screen-reader roles across its tabs, sidebar, and command palette, plus a page-wide contrast pass.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary corrections you've taught Tessen now also apply when transcribing a file, not only during live dictation — the same personal dictionary, wired onto a second path that never used it before.
Security
The update downloader now verifies the digest published in the update manifest against the bytes it actually downloaded before offering to install anything.
Next
Real, open decisions — not commitments
Live words while you speak, before you release the key.
Genuinely undecided: the capture indicator is small enough that partial text may not be worth showing, and starting the typing path earlier reopens a timing risk a previous fix deliberately closed. Might ship as "no."A second on-device speech engine.
Only if it beats Apple's own on-device engine on jargon and trade vocabulary, measured on our own real-voice recordings, not a vendor's benchmark. That comparison is running now; it has not concluded, and it may conclude "no."Learning your words from your own corrections.
Today Tessen learns from terms you add by hand and from a fixed set of trade vocabulary packs. Turning an edit you make to a transcript into something the next dictation learns from is the open piece.