What's Changed

• Add backwards compatibility comment for SpeechDetector conformances (Xcode 26.0/26.1 support)
• Expand test coverage for error localization, file transcription, and session lifecycle by @rudrankriyam in #24
• Refactor tests to use modern Swift Testing patterns

Full Changelog: 1.5.0...1.5.1

What's Changed

• Update SpeechFramework.md by @rudrankriyam in #17
• Improve SpeechSession lifecycle and observability by @rudrankriyam in #19

Full Changelog: 1.4.0...1.5.0

Highlights

• Added audio file transcription APIs (streamTranscription / transcribe) with validation and progress hooks.
• Integrated optional voice activation powered by SpeechDetector, including detector result streaming and state tracking.
• Exposed session lifecycle observability: async status stream, pause/resume controls, and demo preset picker.
• Introduced configurable logging levels with privacy-aware OSLog output.
• Added device capability helper covering speech/dictation locale availability.

Improvements

• Hardened permission checks, streaming cleanup, and analyzer teardown using explicit streaming modes.
• Expanded documentation for observability, voice activation, and file transcription workflows.

Fixes & Tooling

• Fixed premature completion when swapping pipelines or cancelling ingestion.
• Stabilised file transcription state across preset changes.
• Migrated the test suite to Swift Testing with new coverage for logging, voice activation, and file flows.

What's Changed

• Add audio input monitoring with route change handling by @IfritLabs in #5
• Add macOS audio input monitoring by @rudrankriyam in #6
• Document AI assistant guidelines by @rudrankriyam in #7
• Main-actor SpeechSession refactor by @rudrankriyam in #8

New Contributors

• @IfritLabs made their first contribution in #5

Full Changelog: 1.2.0...1.3.0

Highlights

• Added contextual strings support to SpeechSession.startTranscribing(...), including a convenience overload and a new contextSetupFailed error so you can bias recognition with domain vocabulary and surface actionable failures.
• Introduced configurable audio session settings on iOS plus sensible default reporting/attribute options, improving how partial results, alternatives, and metadata are surfaced from SpeechTranscriber.
• Hardened the transcription pipeline with better async cleanup, safeguarded stream lifecycle management, and added regression tests around model download progress and stop semantics.

Demo & Tooling

• Refreshed the Aural demo with a reusable Result.apply(...) helper, styled volatile output, share support, and time-range display for each utterance.
• Checked in the Xcode project (shared Aural scheme) and removed the XcodeGen dependency, while packaging the demo app as an executable target in SwiftPM and excluding non-source assets from builds.

Contributors

• Engin Kurutepe (@ekurutepe)

What's New

• Fix compilation errors for iOS 26.0 compatibility
• Improve audio session configuration with proper AVAudioSession options
• Ensure Swift 6 concurrency safety compliance

Technical Changes

• Replace deprecated .notifyOthersOnDeactivation with .duckOthers in AudioSessionConfiguration
• Add Sendable conformance to AudioSessionConfiguration for thread safety
• Resolve build failures on iOS 26.0 simulator and device targets
• Maintain backward compatibility with existing API

What's New

• Add AudioSessionConfiguration for iOS with customizable audio session settings
• Consolidate SpeechSession architecture by integrating transcriber management directly
• Add iOS-specific initializer for advanced audio session configuration

Technical Changes

• Merged SpeechTranscriberManager functionality into SpeechSession class
• Removed separate StreamState actor and integrated state management
• Added AudioSessionConfiguration struct with category, mode, and options support
• Improved code organization and reduced complexity
• Enhanced iOS-specific audio session customization capabilities

What's New

• Expose directly from Speech framework instead of custom wrapper
• Enable alternative transcriptions via
• Enable confidence scores via attribute
• Updated documentation with examples for accessing new features

Technical Changes

• Removed unnecessary wrapper type
• Configured transcriber with and options
• Updated README with comprehensive examples

First stable release of AuralKit - A lightweight Swift wrapper for speech-to-text transcription using iOS 26's SpeechTranscriber and SpeechAnalyzer APIs.