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@Milomilo777 Milomilo777 released this 15 Aug 15:29
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v1.7.0
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Whisper Project v1.7.0

A settings-safety and stability release on top of v1.6.0.

Highlights

  • New "Enable VAD (skip silent segments)" checkbox (Advanced >
    transcription settings). Voice Activity Detection was always on with no
    way to turn it off from the desktop app. The three VAD tuning sliders
    (min silence, threshold, speech pad) now grey out while it is unchecked.
  • Transcript viewer: "Edit timestamp..." — right-click a segment to
    hand-edit its start/end time. Only that one segment changes. A resulting
    overlap with the previous segment, or a sub-1-second duration, gets a
    light-orange row highlight as a warning; it never blocks saving.

Fixed

  • Editing "Hotwords" in Advanced settings could be silently undone.
    Saving Advanced settings correctly wrote the new hotwords to disk, but
    the Transcribe tab kept its own frozen copy from app launch. Touching
    the language dropdown or a checkbox on that tab afterward silently
    overwrote the fresh edit. Fixed.
  • config.json now refuses a drastic silent shrink and keeps a
    backup.     A real incident this cycle reduced a user's config from ~90
    keys to 3 with no clear trigger found. Saving now refuses to write a
    config with under 40% of the key count currently on disk, and keeps a
    rotating config.json.bak of the last good state on every normal save.
  • A rare native crash during engine/hardware detection is now
    hardened against.     A background thread probing for an optional heavy
    package (Google Cloud Speech, whisper.cpp, a torch-backed engine,
    pyannote.audio, sentence-transformers, llama-cpp-python, sherpa-onnx,
    stable-ts, or the hardware tier probe) could occasionally crash the
    whole app if Python's garbage collector ran at the wrong moment during
    the import. Every such probe now disables garbage collection for that
    one operation, under one shared lock so two probes on different
    threads cannot undo each other's protection.
  • Semantic search could silently mis-score a stale index row after
    switching embedding models. It now skips a dimension-mismatched row
    instead of scoring a meaningless partial comparison.

Security

  • "Convert transcript" ELAN (.eaf) import now rejects a DOCTYPE. A
    crafted .eaf file with a DOCTYPE/entity block could previously hang
    or balloon memory ("billion laughs") when imported. Such files are now
    refused outright with a clear error.

Other

  • The installer and Portable build no longer bundle the
    google-cloud-speech / google-cloud-storage client libraries. Google
    Cloud STT is an opt-in engine for users with their own service-account
    key; those libraries now install on demand the first time it is picked,
    the same as every other optional backend. This shrinks the normal
    install.

Builds

  • Setup-Standard (Windows) — the recommended installer (embeddable
    Python; choose where models are stored on first run).
  • Portable (Windows) — a ZIP of the same tree; extract and run
    Run Whisper Project.bat, no install.
  • macOS — WhisperProject-v1.5.0-macOS-x64.dmg (Intel/x64-only) is
    attached to this release too, carried forward from v1.5.0 unchanged;
    no new macOS build was done this round, so it does not include any
    v1.6.0/v1.7.0 fix.

Notes

  • First launch asks where to keep the speech models (large files); the
    default is a writable per-user folder.
  • Windows SmartScreen may warn on an unsigned installer — choose More
    info → Run anyway    .
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