Release notes from dicio-android

v4.0 - translation and joke skills

2025-10-09T10:32:44Z

New:

Add translation skill via Lingva (thanks @Inhishonor!)
Add jokes skill (but API only supports cs,de,en,es,fr,pt) #318 (thanks @Inhishonor again!)
Add Dutch language #330 (thanks @RemieJanssen and @bollepel!)

Improved:

Better accessibility when the UI is navigated through TalkBack or with dpad buttons #327
Better classification of network errors
[Android 15+] Support 16kB memory pages to abide by Play Store rules
More German translations #337 #339 #340 (thanks @tiptoptom!)
Efforts were made to make the app build reproducibly #308 (thanks @licaon-kter!)
[Media] Don't treat single "start/stop" words as commands to avoid misinterpretations, but require the user to say "start/stop song" instead #338 (thanks @tiptoptom!)

Fixed:

[Search] Fix opening results in browser by updating ShareUtils from NewPipe's codebase #347
[Search] Fix determining which language to search in was silently failing
[Search] Fix invalid URLs being extracted from DuckDuckGo sometimes
[Search] Improve error messages
[Listening] Fix NullPointerException when wakeword not running
Refactor some language utils #348 (thanks @Inhishonor!)
Update all libraries

v3.2 - Swedish, wakeword control

2025-10-08T23:29:11Z

New

Add Swedish language #321 (thanks @citgot!)
- Note that the Vosk model for Swedish is quite big (~300MB) and might run slowly on older phones
[Listening] Add skill to enable/disable listening for wake word #286 (thanks @celskeggs!)

Improved

Add Spanish translations of more skills and improve current ones #315 (thanks @sguinetti!)
Add German translation of Media skill #309 (thanks @tiptoptom!)
Improve English sentences for Media and Lyrics skills #310 #326 (thanks @Inhishonor!)
[Vosk] Update list of models from https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models

Development

Change naming for debug builds #324 (thanks @Inhishonor!)
Handle correctly the case where the repository URL of one of the dependencies included via git changes

v3.1 - External STT & more

2025-04-05T13:32:26Z

This release is just a patch on top of v3.0 to fix the Media skill. Go read the changelog for v3.0 to find out more about the latest major release!

Fixed

[Media] Use the AudioManager APIs to control playing media, instead of MediaSessionManager which is restricted for system apps, fixing "Missing permission to control media" errors
Interpret "12am" as midnight instead of noon Stypox/dicio-numbers#11 (thanks @ellyellyelly!)

v3.0 - External STT & more

2025-04-03T22:19:59Z

Many people contributed to this release, thanks to everyone!

New

Add Polish language #260 (thanks @r0d0dendr0n!)
[Media] Add media control skill, currently available in English, French and Italian #287 (thanks @papjul!)
Allow using external Speech-To-Text apps as input devices #294 (thanks @woheller69!)
- Select this in the settings as a replacement for Vosk, which often does not provide good enough Speech-To-Text
- Any app that opens a popup when receiving the ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH intent should work
- Examples of apps that are known to work: woheller69's whisperIME, Kõnele, Futo Voice Input but even "Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google"
Allow importing a custom wake word model for OpenWakeWord #291 (thanks @celskeggs!)
- If you can't pronounce "Hey Dicio" well enough, you might want to try out a custom wake word model
- You can download .tflite models of common wakeup words from here
- You can even train your own wake word model and then import it in Dicio, see the instructions here
Play stop sound when no speech is detected #290 (thanks @celskeggs!)

Improved

[Weather] Shorten speech responses and support imperial units #283 (thanks @Inhishonor!)
If the user input could not be understood, ask to repeat and reopen microphone #296 (thanks @celskeggs!)
Give lower priority to capturing groups when doing to sentence matching
[Calculator] Improve English sentences #264 (thanks @Inhishonor!)
[Current time] Improve German current time sentences

Fixed

Fix inconsistent language after resuming app
Fix notification text not being expandable
[Search] Fix DuckDuckGo scraper

Development

Target SDK 36 and update dependencies #288 (thanks @papjul!)
Fix typo in README (thanks @Inhishonor!)

v2.0 - Wake word

2024-09-27T23:08:05Z

New

Add wake word recognition in the background #236
- You can now start Dicio by saying "Hey Dicio" even while the phone is turned off
- The used AI model is OpenWakeWord, a huge thank you to them for the excellent work!
Play configurable sound when Dicio starts listening #236

Improved

Better reporting of download and unzip progress

Fixed

Fix Dicio's STT popup not returning any result causing Firefox to crash

v1.1 - Voice Input

2024-08-20T21:34:59Z

New

Dicio can now be used as Voice Input in Android settings #227 (thanks @nebkrid!)
The voice command button on (Bluetooth) headsets will now trigger Dicio #228

Improved

Rename STT service to STT popup

Fixed

Fix reference words not being normalized
[Vosk] Fix pressing STT microphone while still loading

Localization

New language available: Ukrainian 🇺🇦 #222 (thanks @balaraz!)
Translate navigation skill in Russian #188 (thanks @Shura0!)
Improve French and German translations #225 #210 (thanks @AgentSteel and @tiptoptom!)
Improve README documentation

Development

Fix tests not compiling #230 (thanks @Martin-Laclaustra!)
Add GitHub actions to build app, generate screenshots, publish GitHub release and publish to Play Store

v1.0 - Huge refactor

2024-07-11T15:34:05Z

New

Adopt Material 3 design with black and dynamic themes
Migrate code to Jetpack Compose and other modern libs
Faster and more accurate sentence recognition algorithm
Simpler and more powerful Skill APIs
Add launcher shortcut to open Speech To Text service

Improved

[Vosk] Report more status information in STT button:

Target Android 14 (API 34)
Group interactions better and add loading box in home screen

Fixed

[Vosk] Fix Vosk model not downloading on some phones, by ditching Android's DownloadManager and using a network request directly
Fix various UI crashes thanks to the null safety of Kotlin and to the better Skill APIs design

Development

Adopt Jetpack Compose for declarative UI
Use the Model-View-ViewModel architectural pattern to separate business logic from UI code
Adopt Hilt for Dependency Injection
Migrate from SharedPreferences to protobuf-backed DataStore
Move dicio-skill from separate repository to Gradle module :skill in this repo
Create :sentences-compiler-plugin to generate type-safe Kotlin skill standard recognizer definitions based on skill_definitions.yml and on translated sentences in LANG/SKILL_ID.yml files
Migrate from Gradle DSL (.gradle) to Kotlin DSL (.gradle.kts)
Adopt Version Catalog to store the versions of dependencies
Ditch Jitpack for building other dicio-* libraries, and use me.champeau.includegit instead

v0.10 - Use Kotlin, timer improvements

2023-09-09T13:32:17Z

New

The project was converted from Java to Kotlin, if you notice issues please report them! #157 (thanks to @Doomsdayrs for the input)
[Timer] The ringtone now plays in a loop for 30s, or until the user interrupts it

Improved

Capture errors when generating output
Target Android 13 Tiramisu (API 33)

Localization

Add Czech language #149 (thank you @kri164!)
Add Slovenian language #170 #171 (thank you @pro1mantis!)
Translate navigation, current time and timer to German #156 #158 #159 #160 (thank you @sl1txdvd!)

0.9 - New logo, navigation skill

2023-01-29T14:52:48Z

New

New logo! Thanks to everyone involved in #74
[Navigation] Add basic navigation skill #113 (thank you @primesun!)
[Current time] Add French translation #123 (thank you @MXC48-zz and @Phyks!)
Add backup rules that only preserve the preferences file

Improved

[Telephone] When there are many matching contacts, choose one using voice
[Vosk] Update model URLs

Fixed

[Search] Fix "Search for" interpreted as lyrics
Fix miscalculating matching character count in fuzzy string comparison

Development

Update Gradle and Android Gradle Plugin
Enable Java warnings when compiling

0.8 - Speech To Text service

2022-12-20T18:14:17Z

Discussion about a new logo is happening over at #74, you may want to take a look ;-)

New

Add Speech To Text service: press the microphone button in various applications to trigger Dicio's on-device Speech To Text (powered by Vosk), or just use it for dictation #100 #109 #111 (thank you @nebkrid!)
[Current time] Add current time skill #91 #94 (thank you @drew-sinha!)
[Telephone] Add French and Russian translations #88 #71 (thank you @ioctl-user, @MXC48, @BrightDV!)
[Timer] Add French and Russian translations, but they do not show up because dicio-numbers does not support them yet

Fixed

[Vosk] Fix crashes when starting the model download on older Android devices due to missing external storage permission #110

Development

Improve the README section explaining how to create a skill #90 (thank you @drew-sinha!)
Use the same theme in the whole app and deduplicate some code