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Describer Workbench 0.5.2

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@scottconverse scottconverse released this 02 Nov 20:29
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Describer Workbench 0.5.2

This release fixes the 25 bounded first-use and recovery findings across the Windows workbench and shared service.

  • Preserve review evidence, uncertainty and visual-event identity while editing.
  • Connect explicit pinned speech-detector setup to Draft, with verified continuation and cancellation.
  • Keep exact model selection and cancelled Draft settings consistent; run prerequisite checks without blocking the UI.
  • Validate narration before vision and obtain consent for each actual external destination.
  • Protect typed export paths, handle unavailable voices truthfully, and keep destination errors in the dialog.
  • Repair missing narration and resume saved interrupted jobs from the desktop while retaining valid checkpoints.
  • Isolate damaged job records, clear stale Scene state and report actual API startup readiness.

Native acceptance covered real Windows speech repair/discovery, detector download/validation, typed overwrite refusal and recovery across an app restart. Prior completed speech checkpoint files retained their hashes and modification times. The source video remained unchanged. See the release-verification.json asset and docs/V052-ACCEPTANCE.md for provenance and limits.

Download the Windows ZIP, extract the whole folder, and launch DescriberWorkbench.exe. Keep _internal beside it. The GUI and CLI are signed as Scott Converse using Azure Trusted Signing with Microsoft timestamps. User settings/projects are separate from the program directory; preserve your old version as rollback. Older jobs may reject resume when implementation identity differs, preserving their files.

No new claim is made for live paid/cloud inference, full-film AD accuracy, screen-reader certification, clean-machine installation or public YouTube extraction. AI descriptions still require editorial review.

Signing correction, 2026-11-02: the initially unsigned Windows ZIP was replaced by the same application with verified publisher signatures. The v0.5.2 source tag is unchanged. Download the refreshed ZIP and checksum manifest.