CastPolish v1.3 — AI Noise Reduction, In-App Installer, and Processing Logs
v1.3 brings DeepFilterNet AI noise reduction, in-app install/update buttons, a double-click macOS installer, and a processing log file saved with every job.
Albert Collver
Albert Collver, Ph.D. — Lutheran theologian, podcaster, and lifelong coder since the '90s shareware era. I build free, open-source tools like CastPolish, liturgical software, and family-history projects. All local, no cloud.
CastPolish Update: Tiered Noise Reduction & App Bundle Fix
CastPolish now has a tiered noise reduction dropdown — Standard (afftdn), Dynamic (noisereduce), or none — that auto-populates based on installed packages. Plus a fix for the app bundle path bug that broke the app after moving it to /Applications.
Installing CastPolish on Windows and Linux
Step-by-step install guides for Windows (using winget) and Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch), plus optional launcher scripts for both platforms.
CastPolish Update: Light/Dark Mode, Transcribe-Only, and Speaker Diarization Setup
Two new features plus a complete step-by-step guide to setting up speaker diarization with pyannote.audio and HuggingFace.
Another Piece on Why Your Mac Looks Wrong on a 4K Monitor — Even a Great One
My son plugged his new M5 Max into a 282 PPI OLED monitor that exceeds Apple's own Studio Display spec — and it still looked wrong. Here's why, and what the M4/M5 firmware regression has to do with it.