Easy ASR Bench v0.3.7

Easy ASR Bench v0.3.7

Release status: automated packaging checks may be present, but this is not an all-pass manual smoke release because required rows remain unverified.

What changed

• Changed prerelease builds to report prerelease from runtime environment and doctor output instead of trusting stale config.json channel values.
• Added failed-file report generation for pre-model failures so bad media, preprocessing errors, or similar file-level failures still write results.json, results.txt, benchmark.csv, and compare.html with cause and next-action text.
• Changed batch/queue status detection so structured failed-file reports are marked failed in queue state and batch dashboards instead of being mislabeled as completed just because an output folder exists.
• Added more specific failed-file stages for no-audio/media-probe, FFmpeg/decode, and path/permission failures.
• Expanded setup completion into direct first-run choices for running the app, pasting a Hugging Face model link, opening Models, opening Input, or quitting.
• Added a dedicated first-run wizard with a recommended CPU baseline download path, Hugging Face paste flow, folder-open actions, and automatic continuation into the app after a successful model download.
• Added faster-whisper/CTranslate2 package detection to the Hugging Face downloader so baseline ASR repos with model.bin, config.json, and tokenizer/vocabulary files can be downloaded as one runnable package.
• Added app commands for model download and folder-opening actions so setup can route users through product actions without exposing Python commands.
• Reworked optional dependency recovery prompts into explicit install, skip affected models, show repair command, and quit-batch choices.
• Changed queue discovery and direct batch processing to enqueue by fast file identity before full SHA256 hashing, avoiding long startup stalls on large media while preserving result-level source hashes.
• Added focused regression coverage for release-channel truth, stale-config doctor output, first-run guidance, setup choices, dependency prompt choices, and failed-file reports.

Automated Packaging Checks

• Built from commit: c5ae6da.
• Public setup verification path: setup.bat --dry-run --verify-release.
• GitHub Actions Release Gate must pass before a release should be promoted.
• release_file_validation: pass - C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.12.10\x64\python.exe scripts/validate_release_files.py
• repo_physical_file_validation: pass - C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.12.10\x64\python.exe scripts/validate_physical_files.py --repo .
• zip_physical_file_validation: pass - C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.12.10\x64\python.exe scripts/validate_physical_files.py --zip D:\a\Easy-ASR-Bench\Easy-ASR-Bench\dist\Easy-ASR-Bench-v0.3.7-win.zip
• version_coherence: pass - C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.12.10\x64\python.exe scripts/check_release_version_coherence.py --tag v0.3.7

Manual Smoke Rows Marked Pass

• No manual Windows/model/provider/media rows are marked pass in the smoke artifact.

Not Verified In Release Smoke

• win11_clean_no_python_setup: not_run
• win10_existing_python_setup: not_run
• install_path_with_spaces: not_run
• setup_verify_release_bad_checksum: not_run
• setup_double_click_equivalent: not_run
• setup_dry_run_verify_release: not_run
• setup_doctor_strict: not_run
• update_preserves_user_data: not_run
• repair_broken_venv: not_run
• uninstall_preserve_user_data: not_run
• destructive_uninstall_requires_phrase: not_run
• bad_checksum_fails_before_execution: not_run
• tampered_installer_fails_before_execution: not_run
• interrupted_download_rollback: not_run
• broken_venv_repair: not_run
• empty_models_folder: not_run
• empty_models: not_run
• nested_models_folders: not_run
• nested_models_scan: not_run
• wav_mp3_mp4_no_audio_corrupt_media: not_run
• wav_mp3_mp4_media: not_run
• corrupt_media_readable_error: not_run
• no_audio_video_readable_error: not_run
• compare_html_offline_large_transcript: not_run
• compare_html_offline: not_run
• batch_continues_after_one_model_or_chunk_fails: not_run
• one_model_failure_continues: not_run
• one_chunk_failure_continues: not_run
• llm_reference_json_import: not_run
• dependency_install_declined: not_run
• cpu_model_smoke: not_run
• nvidia_cuda_torch_onnx_faster_whisper_llama: not_run
• amd_directml_onnx_smoke: not_run
• intel_directml_onnx_smoke: not_run
• intel_openvino_onnx_smoke: not_run
• vulkan_runtime_no_sdk: not_run
• vulkan_runtime_with_sdk: not_run
• hf_safetensors_asr: not_run
• hf_whisper_safetensors: not_run
• hf_whisper_safetensors_cpu: not_run
• sharded_safetensors_index: not_run
• faster_whisper_ctranslate2: not_run
• faster_whisper_cpu: not_run
• faster_whisper_cuda_unavailable_cpu_fallback: not_run
• whisper_cpp_ggml: not_run
• openai_whisper_pt_checksum_verified: not_run
• openai_whisper_pt_unknown_blocked: not_run
• openai_pt_unverified_blocked: not_run
• generic_onnx_ctc_manifest_v1: not_run
• generic_onnx_manifest_cpu: not_run
• generic_onnx_without_manifest_rejected: not_run
• multi_file_onnx_ar_nar: not_run
• audio_asr_gguf_mmproj: not_run
• gguf_asr_mmproj_pair: not_run
• incomplete_audio_asr_gguf_mmproj_rejected: not_run
• gguf_reference_llm: not_run
• gguf_text_llm_reference_only: not_run
• standalone_safetensors_incomplete: not_run
• hf_text_llm_safetensors_unsupported: not_run
• known_unsupported_asr_families_explained: not_run

Release assets

• Easy-ASR-Bench-v0.3.7-win.zip: sha256:2e4131d3fea68ee4adde9df4b9d011b4fa2ecf1b98016b6371fb403f6f6498fe
• install.ps1: sha256:0481daaca56d0fdb7a43178bb2a45cd0e8947259e3c118d01026cf8b9ea1be8c
• manifest.json: sha256:767ef5f8f4c0f4bfb0478413dbbb2303631d6eba3cb1bc02b88c986986f2528a
• setup.bat: sha256:2460339996133491c8623c78006ac96351d08165fd1933ebcbe1214dff44cd4b

Known limits

• Optional model dependency groups install only when needed.
• GPU/VRAM metrics require a CUDA-capable runtime; CPU runs report VRAM as null.
• Unsafe pickle-backed .pt checkpoints remain blocked unless explicitly trusted.