LocalWhisper v0.1.1
Reliability and UX fixes on top of v0.1.0 — same install steps, same features.
Fixed
- App no longer crashes on a locked clipboard. A momentary Windows clipboard lock used to kill the whole app silently — hotkeys and the wake word would stop responding until you reinstalled. The app now retries and recovers instead of dying.
- Ctrl+B (hold) no longer cuts off mid-sentence. The previous release-detection was unreliable and could falsely end a hold while you were still talking. Release is now detected as a real key-up event, so holding works for as long as you hold it (up to 2 minutes).
- No more stray "b" characters typed into your document. Holding Ctrl+B could leak repeated "b"s into the focused app. The trigger key is now suppressed for the duration of the hold.
- Alt+N (toggle) no longer gets stuck on "Listening." A stall in the stop-check logic could leave a toggle recording running indefinitely. Stop conditions are now checked continuously and reliably end the recording.
- Wake word ("Hey Jarvis") no longer cuts off after 15 seconds. The cap is now 2 minutes; a natural pause in speech is what normally ends the recording.
- Faster feedback after you stop talking — less lag between finishing speech and seeing your text appear.
New
- On-screen "Listening" / "Working" indicator — a small Siri-style pill appears while LocalWhisper is capturing or transcribing your speech, so you always know it's active. It never steals focus from what you're typing into.
Install / upgrade
Same as before: download LocalWhisper-Setup.zip below, extract, run Install.bat. Running it again over an existing install upgrades in place.