Releases · savbell/whisper-writer

[1.0.1] - 2024-01-28

With push-to-talk being a highly requested feature, I figured it's worth creating a release now that we have two new recording modes — hold-to-record and press-to-toggle! Thanks to @McEsgow for their initial push-to-talk PR (#28). Plus, we're using faster-whisper now (#11)!

Some more shout-outs:

@uberkael for resolving non-English keyboard issues by migrating to pynput (#10).
@thfrei for sharing their whisper-writer implementation that has continuous recording and transcribing (#21).
@danshapiro for sharing their whisper-writer implementation that has push-to-talk (#21).
@filyp for sharing their whisper-simple-dictation project that has push-to-talk (#25).
@avi-cenna for sharing their whisper-server project that integrates with Hammerspoon (#14).

Changelog

Added

New message to identify whether Whisper was being called using the API or running locally.
Additional hold-to-talk (PR #28) and press-to-toggle recording methods (Issue #21).
New configuration options to:
- Choose recording method (defaulting to voice activity detection).
- Choose which sound device and sample rate to use.
- Hide the status window (PR #28).

Changed

Migrated from whisper to faster-whisper (Issue #11).
Migrated from pyautogui to pynput (PR #10).
Migrated from webrtcvad to webrtcvad-wheels (PR #17).
Changed default activation key combo from ctrl+alt+space to ctrl+shift+space.
Changed to using a local model rather than the API by default.
Revamped README.md, including new Roadmap, Contributing, and Credits sections.

Fixed

Local model is now only loaded once at start-up, rather than every time the activation key combo was pressed.
Default configuration now auto-chooses compute type for the local model to avoid warnings.
Graceful degradation to CPU if CUDA isn't available (PR #30).
Removed long prefix of spaces in transcription (PR #19).

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1