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✨ Vito Assist — say "Vito, …" and it acts on your words

Start a dictation with "Vito, …" and a short instruction. It isn't typed out — it's carried out on your next dictation, or on the text already on your clipboard.

• Spoken commands — reshape your dictation ("translate to English", "summarise this", "turn into bullet points", "make it more formal"), or ask it something ("question" then ask, "reply to this"). The instruction runs through the AI-cleanup pass, the mic reopens on its own afterwards, and a unique sound confirms it's armed.
• Clipboard mode — "Vito, summarise the text on the clipboard" reads your clipboard and puts the result back on the clipboard, ready to paste — with a clear on-screen hint so it never feels like nothing happened.
• Live command banner with an animated Vito mark, in the app and the mini overlay.
• Its own (heavier) model, optional — borrow the AI-cleanup model, or point Vito Assist at a stronger one, since answering and transforming ask more than tidy-up does.

📊 Measured, and rewarded

• A dedicated "Vito Assist" status card counting how often you use it.
• A command achievement tier plus a hidden "Vito Wizard" for using all three modes — plain dictation, a spoken command and a clipboard command — with animated Noto medals.
• Honest cost split — Assist tokens are billed apart from cleanup, at their own model's rate. Both the AI-cleanup and Vito Assist settings now show editable token-rate fields, pre-filled from your provider (€0 on Groq's free tier), so you can match the exact price if you want.

⚙️ Settings & history

• A dedicated Vito Assist settings tab: how the flow works, examples, what it can't do, and the model configuration.
• The history and the timing bar now label an Assist dictation as "Vito Assist" and show the original command, instead of just "cleanup".

🌍 60 languages

• All the new interface strings are translated into all 60 languages.

🐛 Fixes

• The status-page layout editor no longer jumps around when you drag cards; the layout dialog is wider and centred over the content.

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Install

• Windows — Vito-Setup-2026.7.3.exe (per-user, no admin).
• Linux — Vito-2026.7.3-x86_64.AppImage — chmod +x and run.

Free, open-source, bring-your-own-key — no subscription. Setup guides at vito.talk.

AI cleanup: OpenAI-compatible providers

The AI cleanup pass now works with any OpenAI-compatible chat-completions endpoint, alongside Anthropic:

• Groq — a free tier (rate- and daily-token-limited) that states it doesn't train on your API data. Together with AssemblyAI's free starting credit, you can dictate and clean up for free.
• OpenAI — use your own OpenAI API key.
• Local model — point it at Ollama, LM Studio or any local endpoint, so your transcript never leaves your machine.

New installations default to the Groq preset; existing configurations keep their current provider.

Downloads

• Linux: Vito-2026.7.2-x86_64.AppImage
• Windows: Vito-Setup-2026.7.2.exe

Verify each download against its .sha256 file.

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