Describer Workbench 0.8.0 (Windows)

Describer Workbench 0.8.0 is a Windows release. It improves Public meeting mode (city and council meeting videos).

What is new:

• Meeting mode describes only what changed on screen. It no longer repeats the same cue.
• It reads slide titles and on-screen text.
• It finds votes, such as a show of hands.
• It places spoken cues in the pauses between talk more often.
• It never speaks internal labels such as "Speaker 1" or "man_plaid".
• Long descriptions are not cut in the middle of a phrase.
• A slide cue starts when the slide shows, not before.
• Fixes for F5, F6, F7, F8 and F10 from the audit (each with a test).

Quality is still below its targets. On 13 test videos (156 cues graded by hand, model gemma4:12b):

Measure	Now	Target
Correct	29.5 %	60 % or more
Wrong or made up	15.4 %	5 % or less
Trivial (true, but adds nothing)	36.5 %	15 % or less
Spoken in a pause	45 %	70 % or more
Same cue said again	0 %	under 5 %
Internal label spoken	0 %	0
Extra length added (meetings)	+6.0 s per minute	under 15 s per minute

So check every draft before you export. AI output is a draft.

Downloads:

• Windows x64 portable ZIP: signed as Scott Converse with Azure Trusted Signing, timestamped, and checked with Authenticode and signtool.
• Python wheel, source package and offline documentation.

Mac and Linux stay on 0.7.0. There is no 0.8.0 Mac or Linux build. Use the 0.7.0 release on those computers.

See SHA256SUMS.txt and release-verification.json for file hashes and provenance.