Whisper Desktop v3.0.1

Whisper Desktop v3.0.1 is a focused maintenance and polish release delivering substantial usability enhancements to the Hardsub Studio, smoother video preview playback, refined RTL/UI ergonomics, and hardened cross-platform packaging.

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🌟 What's New & Highlights

🎬 Hardsub Studio & Video Player Enhancements

• Direct Video Playback Action: Added a dedicated "Play Exported Video" action button immediately upon completing a hardsub render, allowing instant verification in your default media player.
• Persistent & Synchronized Volume Controls: The video player volume slider is now permanently visible with refined spacing and zero desynchronization between initial audio levels and player controls.
• Playback Stall Auto-Recovery: Implemented an intelligent watchdog mechanism that detects and automatically recovers stalled or frozen video preview streams.
• Ergonomic Subtitle Cue Editor: Cue textareas now dynamically auto-expand to fit multiline content with an ergonomic 48px minimum height floor, eliminating awkward nested scrollbars.
• RTL Canvas Overlay Fix: Eliminated initial horizontal canvas offsets in Right-to-Left (RTL) mode, ensuring subtitles align with millimeter precision from the first frame.

🎨 UI Refinements & Internationalization

• Ultra Reasoning Support: Integrated the Ultra Reasoning tier in the translation engine, complete with proper RTL layout alignment and robust settings null-safety.
• Adaptive Themed Scrollbars: Implemented modern, unobtrusive scrollbars styled to match the dark theme and eliminated layout shifting (scrollbar gutter polish).
• Stable Transcribe Layout: Locked grid dimensions in the transcription studio to prevent responsive jitter across different window sizes.

⚙️ CI/CD & Cross-Platform Packaging Hardening

• Accelerated Windows Builds: Enabled parallel multi-core MSVC compilation (-j) across all Whisper backend targets in the CI workflow.
• Linux AppImage Packaging Fixes: Resolved linuxdeploy failures concerning Level Zero loader symlinks and guaranteed explicit POSIX executable permissions across all bundled runtimes.
• Bundled Runtime Assets: Improved distribution bundles with companion OpenVINO backend plugins and hardware cache files.

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📝 Commit Changelog

• 9920c7f ci(linux): resolve AppImage linuxdeploy failure with Level Zero loader and symlink hygiene
• a636957 ci(windows): enable parallel multi-core compilation for whisper backends
• 713f0ed feat(hardsub): add direct play exported video action button
• bebb55d style(ui): harmonize reasoning dropdown width and implement adaptive themed scrollbar
• d86eaa0 fix(ui): add ultra reasoning, fix rtl reasoning alignment and settings null-safety
• d6e2431 fix(ui): polish provider cards i18n and hardsub scrollbar gutter
• bddb66b fix(ui): enforce 48px ergonomic floor for hardsub cue textareas
• de6fef1 fix(hardsub): eliminate cue textarea internal scroll and auto-fit heights
• 80a0b64 fix(ui): auto-expand hardsub cue textareas and lock transcribe grid layout
• 98372de chore(release): bump application version to 3.0.1
• a206561 fix(hardsub): polish preview status banner and package OpenVINO cache on Windows
• 413ba11 fix(hardsub): polish volume controls and auto-recover stalled video playback
• bd3ab05 fix(hardsub): synchronize initial video audio and tighten volume slider spacing
• a7f9595 feat(hardsub): keep video player volume slider permanently visible
• ba5aff6 fix(hardsub): prevent initial canvas overlay offset in RTL and first-load
• 90aca13 fix(ci): enforce POSIX execute permissions on AppImage repackaging
• 6d55e39 docs(screenshots): update hardsub and models preview assets
• fc026d7 ci(workflow): bundle OpenVINO device backend plugins and GPU cache

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📦 Downloads & Installation Hub

Tip

Which edition should you choose?

• Universal Edition: Ideal for all standard setups (AMD Radeon, Intel Arc / Iris Xe / Core Ultra, Apple Silicon, and CPU-only systems). Dynamically leverages Vulkan, OpenVINO, Metal, or optimized AVX2/NEON backends.
• NVIDIA CUDA Edition: Best for PCs with dedicated NVIDIA GeForce RTX / GTX graphics cards (ships with pre-configured CUDA 12 runtimes for maximum inference speed).

🪟 Windows (x64 & ARM64 via Prism)

Compatible with Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2019+

Universal Edition (AMD Radeon, Intel Arc / Iris Xe, Standard CPU)

• — Standard setup wizard (auto-installs Visual C++ 2015–2022 redistributable if missing)
• — Zero-install standalone archive (run from any folder or USB drive)
• — Windows Installer package for enterprise managed environments

NVIDIA CUDA Edition (Dedicated RTX / GTX Hardware Acceleration)

• — Full installer with bundled CUDA 12 runtimes
• — Standalone portable archive with CUDA acceleration
• — Enterprise MSI with CUDA acceleration

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🍏 macOS (Apple Silicon M1–M4 & Intel)

Compatible with macOS 12 Monterey, macOS 13 Ventura, macOS 14 Sonoma, and macOS 15 Sequoia

• — Native Mach-O Universal binary with Metal GPU acceleration for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs

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🐧 Linux (x86_64 & ARM64)

Compatible with Ubuntu 20.04+, Debian 11+, Fedora 38+, Arch Linux, and RHEL 9+

Arch Linux (AUR)

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x86_64 Universal Edition (Vulkan, Intel OpenVINO, CPU)

• — Standalone binary; runs on any modern distribution
• — Native package for Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint (zstd compressed)
• — Native package for Fedora, RHEL, and openSUSE (zstd compressed)

x86_64 NVIDIA CUDA Edition (Dedicated RTX / GTX Acceleration)

• — Portable AppImage with bundled CUDA acceleration
• — Native .deb package with CUDA support
• — Native .rpm package with CUDA support

ARM64 (aarch64) Universal Edition (SBCs & ARM Linux Desktops)

• — Standalone AppImage for Raspberry Pi 5, Rockchip, and ARM64 servers
• — Native .deb for 64-bit ARM Debian/Ubuntu
• — Native .rpm for 64-bit ARM Fedora/RHEL

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Note

💬 Community Feedback & Bug Reports

Whisper Desktop is designed to run entirely offline across an enormous variety of operating systems and hardware configurations — from modern workstations with dedicated GPUs to legacy laptops, Apple Silicon Macs, and ARM SBCs.

Because it is impossible for a single developer to physically test every hardware combination, driver setup, and operating system environment, your feedback is invaluable!

If you encounter any bugs, performance issues, UI glitches, or have feature ideas on any platform (Windows, Linux, or macOS):

• Please open an issue on GitHub.
• Helpful context: your OS, CPU/GPU model, and diagnostic logs from the in-app Activity Logs view.

Every bug report, test result, and suggestion directly helps make Whisper Desktop more stable, robust, and accessible for everyone. Thank you for helping improve the project! 💙

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