Chatterbox 1.7.2

Live local speech-to-text captions for the VRChat chatbox. Windows 10/11 x64.

New in 1.7.2

• In-app updates never change the exe under a running process any more. The download is staged beside the running exe, Chatterbox exits, and the staged exe swaps the files once the old process is gone and starts the new version. (You receive 1.7.2 itself through the old path one last time; later updates use the new one.)
• Being ended from outside is not a crash. The crash marker now covers the whole run, and the next start asks Windows whether it recorded a crash or hang for it: if so, captions wait for Start and the record is copied to error.log; a run that was simply ended (Task Manager, or a companion app that stops Chatterbox when the game closes) auto-starts captions as usual. Sign-out and shutdown count as clean exits.
• Stability: when recognition cannot keep up, audio beyond one pass plus ten seconds is skipped instead of lagging further; a recognition pass that throws stops the session with "recognition failed"; Stop is quick and never frees the engine under a running pass; Parakeet gets at most 20 s per pass.
• A model, engine or GPU-pack download that fails on the network keeps its partial file, and the retry continues where it stopped.
• A CPU without AVX2/FMA gets the bundled no-AVX Whisper build, so both engines run there.
• The Translate tab says when translation runs on the CPU although the Vulkan pack is installed, and why. The microphone is chosen by the name you see. A settings save that fails says so.

Run on Windows 11 before release: the update from an installed 1.7.1, the new update path, a kill during captions (CPU, and CUDA with translation), a real crash record, a first-run download and a resumed one.

SHA-256: D7BE5D52BE0154DA6B4848CBA0D4C241E0A6E9A4919AE5A0624E45AA1FE1D6F9

Chatterbox 1.7.1

Live local speech-to-text captions for the VRChat chatbox. Windows 10/11 x64.

New in 1.7.1

• The translator has its own Translate tab on the left: the on/off switch, the language to translate into, "show the original too", whether the model and engine are installed, and the last translated sentence.

New in 1.7.0

• Translation: your captions can be translated on your own machine before they reach the chatbox (Tencent Hy-MT2 1.8B via llama.cpp; download the model and the engine pack on the Models screen). A Vulkan pack accelerates it on any GPU.
• The engine and Whisper model selectors now live on the Models screen under "In use".
• The startup update check is on by default (Settings → Updates switches it off).

SHA-256: 7D0B9EA5EAA395A51D9E37A09B37B82B055BE1506D865F387635A78EF035109B

Chatterbox 1.7.0

Live local speech-to-text captions for the VRChat chatbox. Windows 10/11 x64.

New in 1.7.0

• Translation: your captions can be translated on your own machine before they reach the chatbox (Tencent Hy-MT2 1.8B via llama.cpp; download the model and the engine pack on the Models screen, then switch it on under Settings → Translation). A Vulkan pack accelerates it on any GPU.
• The engine and Whisper model selectors now live on the Models screen under "In use".
• The startup update check is on by default (Settings → Updates switches it off).

SHA-256: F4E40D9CEBE714E483E48101599CD1861E1232B7CF969D558D1E64D8E79B3D87

Chatterbox 1.6.1

Live local speech-to-text captions for the VRChat chatbox. Windows 10/11 x64. The update check now says when the repository is private rather than reporting no release. SHA-256: DBCD0E86674B8851BB7EADF147A42900E6252CD2A894080152FABE3A29F9B57E

Chatterbox 1.6.0

Live local speech-to-text captions for the VRChat chatbox. Windows 10/11 x64. SHA-256: D1C8080D90BAF04E87ADA0CF9792BDB523F3A570484331300D77D1160741B181