Version 1.1.5 makes the Mac app steadier from the moment you start a consult through to review, documents and export.
The window stays where you put it
Starting a session no longer changes the size of the full window. Moving between Full, Panel and Puck keeps the size controls under your pointer, and returning to Full brings back the actual size you were using.
A transcript that is easier to follow
Speaker colours are more distinct, the colour bars are a little stronger, and the name column uses the space its labels need instead of reserving a fixed strip beside every line.
We’ve fixed a telehealth case where different speaker labels appeared in the same colour. The speaker key now matches the names and colours shown in the transcript.
The bottom key follows the tab you’re reading. Transcript explains speaker colours, Corrected and Unsure heard; Note explains Couldn’t structure. Fewer unrelated labels, and a clearer cue for what to check.
Speaker details also stay in step with the completed transcript. When a draft finishes, Review refreshes the transcript with it. Where a voice match is available, its explanation sits beside the speaker’s name rather than becoming part of the name on every row.
The transcription flag has been tucked out of the text flow, while keeping its explanation available. Speaker labels remain visible: colour is a reading aid, not proof of identity, and uncertain attribution stays uncertain.
Per-segment Listen is also more dependable on long recordings, including while retained audio is still being prepared.
Review has a few quieter improvements too. You can add a section to an individual note, and a missing-section check opens where the text needs editing. Confirmed medication-list changes no longer depend on reopening their transcript source, while grounding detail makes clear when clinician-written sections are outside its coverage. Checks show calm progress while they are still running instead of looking like failures.
Better documents and native exports
Clinical documents now supports a queue of PDFs with compact file chips. Notes and letters can be read in the right panel, and an unwanted draft has an explicit Discard draft action. The extraction wording also reflects when the hosted server-backed path is being used.
After confirmation, a letter can be exported as PDF and a note as text through the native Mac Save panel. Cancelling the panel is kept separate from a successful save, so Akoua does not say a file was written when it was not.
Quieter saved sign-in
Akoua now uses the Mac’s app-scoped Keychain for saved sign-in, avoiding the older login-Keychain permission prompt when it accesses those tokens.
If you are upgrading from the older storage method, you may need to sign in once again. The new token stays on that Mac. Passkey and other deliberate authentication prompts still work as before.
Small improvements around the consult
Short pronunciation recordings use the updated audio engine, with the same recording limit and cancellation cleanup. Copying confirmed text uses the Mac’s native clipboard support, and browser recovery sign-in uses the current macOS authentication window.
Changing Akoua Cloud country now offers a safe in-app restart. Operations pages keep their first audit view stable and label each sensitive provider gate separately, so one control cannot appear to describe another.
When extra processing permission is needed, transcription and note-drafting choices can appear together before recording. If recording is already available, Record without note drafting lets you begin and make the drafting choice later.
Draft notes can also be read while their transcript-support checks finish, with progress and a retry option if those checks cannot complete. They remain drafts until you explicitly confirm them.
Akoua for Mac on the App Store. Akoua is available to practices in Australia and New Zealand.