v0.11.0-beta

🎉 Vocalinux v0.11.0-beta

24 commits merged since v0.10.2-beta — new Advanced Settings tab, IBus/recognition hardening, and broad distro compatibility improvements.

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✨ New Features

Advanced Settings Tab (#415)

A new Advanced tab in the Settings dialog exposes whisper.cpp anti-hallucination parameters directly from the UI — no config file editing required:

• Temperature — control inference randomness (lower = more deterministic)
• No-speech threshold — tune sensitivity to background noise
• Max segment length — limit how long transcribed chunks can be
• Additional inference-time parameters for fine-grained control

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This addresses long-standing requests from @ericzundel (#363), @christophtschmidt (#247), and @bradwood (#393) for more control over hallucination and noise transcription behaviour.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

🎤 Speech Recognition

• Preserve final speech on stop — last spoken words no longer truncated when stopping recognition (reported by @sabbari in #401)
• Stop sound plays immediately on shortcut release — no more delayed audio feedback (#426, by @juanfradb)
• Stop sound delayed correctly until audio thread joins — prevents microphone capture being held open on short recordings (#436)

🔌 IBus / Text Injection

• Engine readiness probe at startup with hardened retries — no more silent IBus failures on first launch (#391)
• Engine instance properly destroyed on keyboard layout switch — fixes silent text injection failure when using Super+Space to switch layouts (reported by @Sbenazar in #388)
• Runtime IBus failure recovery — app now recovers from mid-session IBus crashes without requiring a restart (#411)

📦 Installer / Distro Compatibility

• pywhispercpp library loading repaired — fixes broken installs on systems where the .so wasn't found at runtime (reported by @mr-bembel in #432, fixed in #433)
• openSUSE Tumbleweed dependencies corrected — proper package names and fallback handling (reported and fixed by @peplocanto in #419/#420, additional fallbacks in #418)
• Debian compatibility layer hardened — installer now handles more Debian edge cases robustly (#437)
• Installer validates project config before entering local repo mode — prevents misleading Python version errors (reported by @Jasha10 in #396)
• Existing whisper.cpp builds reused on reinstall — avoids unnecessary multi-minute rebuilds (#421)
• ldconfig refreshed after openSUSE typelib install — fixes runtime library visibility (#438)
• Python 3.14 support + lxml >= 6.1.0 pinned (reported by @mbtw9 in #404)

⚡ whisper.cpp

• CPU thread count reduced — prevents over-subscription on multi-core systems; GPU backend now builds correctly in dev mode (#439)

🔧 Logging

• Runtime log noise cleaned up; hardware detection results are now cached to avoid repeated GPU probes

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🔧 Improvements

• Test coverage expanded for recognition internals, IBus edge cases, and CI notification suppression (#410, #414)
• PyPI installation docs clarified with per-distro system dependency requirements (#423)
• Dependencies bumped — Next.js security updates (#399, #429), PostCSS (#2753679) via @dependabot

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🙏 Contributors

Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Code Contributors

Contributor	PRs / Commits
@jatinkrmalik	#415, #418, #421, #423, #433, #436, #437, #438, #439, #391, #411, #410, #412, #414, + direct commits fixing #388, #396, #401, #404
@peplocanto	#420 — openSUSE dependency fix
@juanfradb	#426 — stop sound UX improvement
@dependabot	#399, #429 — automated dependency updates

Issue Reporters & Feature Requestors

Thank you to everyone who took the time to file detailed bug reports and feature requests — this release wouldn't exist without you:

Contributor	Issue	Summary
@Sbenazar	#388, #389	IBus text injection failure on keyboard layout switch
@peplocanto	#407, #419	openSUSE Tumbleweed support and dependency fixes
@mr-bembel	#432	pywhispercpp library loading failure on Ubuntu 26.04
@ericzundel	#363	Background noise being transcribed
@christophtschmidt	#247	Whisper hallucination of repetitive nonsensical text
@bradwood	#393	Expose whisper.cpp initial_prompt and inference parameters in UI
@sabbari	#401	Final speech truncated on stop
@Jasha10	#396	Installer Python version mismatch error
@mbtw9	#404	lxml >= 6.1.0 compatibility

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📦 Installation

Quick Install (Recommended)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jatinkrmalik/vocalinux/main/install.sh -o /tmp/vl.sh && bash /tmp/vl.sh

Update Existing Installation

Re-run the installer — it will detect your existing setup, preserve your config and models, and update in place:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jatinkrmalik/vocalinux/main/install.sh -o /tmp/vl.sh && bash /tmp/vl.sh

From Source

git clone https://github.com/jatinkrmalik/vocalinux.git
cd vocalinux
git checkout v0.11.0-beta
./install.sh

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🔍 Full Changelog

Full Diff: v0.10.2-beta...v0.11.0-beta