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skill · v1.0.0 · house · pin 2933248

voiceink-2-upgrade

Field notes for surviving VoiceInk 2.0: Parakeet V3 Modes, the Apple Speech trap, prompt=<none> enhancement failures, Dictionary emoji/path replacements, and a settings-backup validator.

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# CLI (primary)
$ autovault add jack-arturo/skillissue@29332485bc5adec40eafa1bdca560ab86d372447:skills/voiceink-2-upgrade/SKILL.md --sync-profiles
# MCP tool call
add_skill({ source: "github", identifier: "jack-arturo/skillissue@29332485bc5adec40eafa1bdca560ab86d372447:skills/voiceink-2-upgrade/SKILL.md" })
→ vault validates · signs · syncs agent skill dirs
source: jack-arturo/skillissue

Why it exists

VoiceInk 2.0 is worth the upgrade — Modes are the right model — but the cutover

will happily strand you on Apple Speech, wipe Mode storage, and fail every AI

cleanup with an empty prompt UUID.

I hit all of that in one evening. Parakeet V3 was already on disk under

FluidAudio. History still screamed about English (United States) downloads.

Enhancement rows showed prompt=<none> and "Failed to decode response." Brief

Modes never ran the cleanup prompt, so spoken "exhaling emoji" stayed as words

until the Dictionary replacements did the job.

This skill is the checklist I wish I'd had before opening the 2.0 build: snapshot

first, kill Apple Speech on active Modes, give every enhancing Mode a real

prompt, put deterministic fixes (emoji, ellipsis, mcp-client.js) in word

replacements, and validate the backup JSON before you re-import it.

History

1.0.0 — 2026-07

First public cut after a live Mac upgrade to VoiceInk 2.0 (build ~205).

  • Documented Apple Speech vs Parakeet / FluidAudio paths
  • Mode map: Default / Brief / Assistant / Submit / Email / optional German
  • Cleanup prompt template (emoji, ellipsis, literal paths, mixed EN+DE)
  • Starter replacements JSON + scripts/validate_backup.py
  • Notes that Custom providers live in prefs + Keychain, not the backup schema

How Jack actually uses it

Default Mode: Parakeet V3 streaming, Cerebras gpt-oss-120b cleanup, System

Default-style prompt, language auto. Clipboard + screen context on for

register detection.

Brief: enhancement off, messaging apps, Dictionary replacements for emoji so

WhatsApp stays fast.

Ask AutoJack: Custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint on localhost, Respond output —

not the same provider as cleanup.

Dictionary is the shared lexicon other local STT tools can read read-only from

dictionary.store. Don't assume FluidAudio CoreML weights are the same stack as

parakeet-mlx.

What it is not

Not VoiceInk support. Not a dump of anyone's full personal dictionary or API

keys. Not a promise that settings import recreates Custom provider Keychain

entries on a fresh Mac — you still Verify under AI Models → Custom.

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Package

Version 1.0.0 · install pin 2933248 · SSOT skills/voiceink-2-upgrade/ on GitHub · agents: claude-code, codex, autojack, cursor