Sorify 1.0.0

First public release of Sorify: local speech-to-text for audio and video files on Windows, built on OpenAI Whisper.

Download Sorify-Setup-1.0.0.exe below. Windows 10/11 64-bit, installs for the current user without administrator rights. SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC" because the installer is not code-signed yet: click More info → Run anyway. Verify the file with certutil -hashfile Sorify-Setup-1.0.0.exe SHA256 against SHA256SUMS.txt.

What you get

• Drag-and-drop queue for files and folders, live transcript while decoding, per-file language and timing.
• Every Whisper model from tiny to large-v3 and turbo; Auto picks turbo on an NVIDIA GPU and base on the CPU.
• 99 languages with auto-detection, Translate to English.
• Text paragraphs, timestamped text, SRT, VTT, TSV and JSON; save next to each file or into one folder.
• Beam search / fast decoding, word-level timestamps, subtitle line width, vocabulary prompt, context switch.
• Transcribe with Sorify in Explorer's right-click menu; sorify command for batch jobs.
• Built-in updater: release notes, Update now / Remind me later / Skip this version, SHA-256 verified downloads.
• Private: files never leave your PC.

Setup downloads

After copying the app (50 MB), Setup downloads PyTorch (about 2 GB for the GPU build, 120 MB for the CPU build), Whisper and ffmpeg (80 MB) into Sorify's private runtime. The first transcription downloads the speech model (turbo 1.5 GB, base 140 MB).

Full details in the README. Problems? Open an issue. Enjoying it? Buy me a coffee ☕