Important safety fix — please upgrade
The "Hey Jarvis" wake word is now OFF by default. In earlier versions the always-on wake word could false-trigger on background speech, a video, or a meeting everyone could hear — and then transcribe that audio and type it into whatever window was focused. This is fixed by not running the wake word unless you explicitly turn it on.
Out of the box, LocalWhisper now responds only to the hotkeys (Ctrl+B and Alt+N) — nothing listens or types on its own.
Upgrade
Download LocalWhisper-Setup.zip below, extract, run Install.bat. It stops any running copy and upgrades in place (no manual uninstall needed).
Turning the wake word back on (optional)
If you want hands-free "Hey Jarvis", create a file at %LOCALAPPDATA%\LocalWhisper\config.json:
{ "wakeword_enabled": true, "wakeword_threshold": 0.8 }Then quit and relaunch. Raise wakeword_threshold toward 0.9 if it ever false-fires. This file changes settings without needing to reinstall.
Also in this release
- When enabled, the wake word is much stricter (higher threshold + requires several consecutive detections) and caps recordings at 30 s.
- All settings can now be overridden via
config.jsonwithout rebuilding.