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🚀 Whisper Desktop v2.3.0

v2.3.0 is officially live! A major release featuring complete UI/UX modernizations, hybrid TypeScript architecture, real-time downloader telemetry, and an upgraded AI translation engine.

🌟 What's New in This Release?

🎛️ 1. UI Modernization & Top-Layer Portal Dropdowns

  • Top-Layer Dropdown Menus: Select menus now render seamlessly in the top layer, completely eliminating dropdown clipping across all overflow boundaries and scroll containers.
  • Unified Batch Processing Queue: The multi-file batch queue has been redesigned into a cohesive glassmorphic panel featuring an integrated header bar, live file count badges, and aligned action controls.
  • Refined Visual Affordance: Improved card hover behavior across all views—eliminating white flashes on static layout containers while preserving soft accent highlights on interactive controls.
  • Interactive Toast Notifications: Enhanced system notifications with animated progress countdowns, hover-to-pause interactions, and quick close controls.

📥 2. Real-Time Model Downloader & Telemetry

  • Event-Driven Progress Streaming: Download progress updates dynamically in real time without refreshing the page or interrupting navigation across other tabs.
  • Standardized Mbps Telemetry: Download speeds are now calculated and displayed in standard Megabits per second (Mbps).
  • Smart ETA Calculations: Estimated completion times exceeding 60 minutes automatically format into clean hours, minutes, and seconds.
  • Smoother Speed Accuracy: Baseline file tracking eliminates initial speed spikes when resuming partial downloads.
  • Clean Pause & Resume: Pausing an active download is tracked gracefully without generating false error notifications.

🌐 3. Multi-Language AI Subtitle Translation Suite

  • 40+ World Languages Support: Expanded translation support for over 40 global languages.
  • Sliding Context Window: Keeps conversational context intact across long media subtitle segments to ensure natural, narrative dialogue.
  • High-Fidelity Dialogue Prompting: Subtitle translations preserve speaker formatting, punctuation, line numbers, and exact pronoun fidelity.
  • Real-Time Chunk Progress: Stream line-by-line translation progress directly inside the interface as AI processing occurs.

⚡ 4. Modern TypeScript & Vite Toolchain

  • Hybrid TypeScript Support: The frontend build system now supports TypeScript, enabling modern, strongly typed module development alongside existing JavaScript components.
  • Blazing Fast Build Performance: Integrated Vite tooling for near-instant development updates and optimized production builds.

🛠️ 5. Engine Reliability & Diagnostics

  • Stabilized Output Monitoring: Improved stdout reader stability during active transcription sessions.
  • Automatic Silero VAD Synchronization: Automated state alignment between Voice Activity Detection settings and command-line execution parameters.

📜 Full Commit Log

  • be78b13 chore(release): bump version to v2.3.0
  • 4447bfb feat(infra): configure typescript and vite hybrid environment for future module development
  • 5d317e7 feat(dashboard & downloader): update dashboard feature highlights, refactor model downloader events, and fix pause/speed telemetry
  • e115982 fix(ui): refactor batch queue card layout and implement top-layer portal positioning for custom selects
  • eec30be style(ui): eliminate noisy white card hovers and standardize affordance across components
  • 6ed6eb4 style(ui): redesign models storage directory field into responsive read-only path control
  • 14b4b57 feat(translation): expand target languages list to support 40+ major languages
  • b092a70 fix(translation): balance system prompt for complete fidelity and natural spoken dialogue
  • d23433a feat(translation): emit per-chunk progress events and cap chunk size at 30 items
  • 301e34c fix(transcribe): prevent premature stdout reader loop termination and fix misleading abort notification
  • 277a77e feat(translation): implement sliding context window and conversational subtitle prompt optimization
  • c1b44dd feat(ui): upgrade toast notifications with longer durations, progress bar countdown, hover-pause, and close button

📥 Getting Started

Download the package corresponding to your Linux distribution from the Assets section below:

  • Ubuntu/Debian: .deb
  • Fedora/RedHat: .rpm
  • Portable Linux: .AppImage

Arch Linux (AUR):
Arch Linux users can install the application directly from the AUR:

paru -S whisper-desktop-bin

(or using your preferred AUR helper like yay)

Enjoy high-performance, private, and offline speech-to-text transcription! 🎙️✨

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v2.3.0

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