Describer Workbench 0.8.2

Describer Workbench 0.8.2 lets you turn on Public meeting mode and choose a captions file in the app window. Before, you had to edit settings.json for both.

What is new:

• Draft with AI has a Public meeting mode box. Tick it for city, council and board meeting videos. The app keeps your choice.
• Draft with AI has a Captions file for this video row with Choose… and Clear. Pick the SRT or VTT file for the same video.
• A captions file chosen in the window is used for that video only. When you open another video, the app clears it.
• A captions path typed by hand in settings.json is kept for every video, as before.
• If the chosen captions file is gone, Start draft stops and tells you.

The drafting engine is the same as 0.8.1. So the measured quality is the same:

Measure	0.8.1 result	Target
Correct	67.6 %	60 % or more
Wrong or made up	3.8 %	5 % or less
Trivial (true, but adds nothing)	10.5 %	15 % or less
Spoken in a gap, or a pause for a meeting event	100 %	70 % or more
Extra length added (meetings)	+1.6 s per minute	under 15 s per minute

Measured on 13 test videos, 105 cues graded by hand, model gemma4:12b. See the 0.8.1 release notes.

Known limits:

• The model can still call something a vote when there is none.
• Results change from run to run on the same video.
• The new labels show in English in the other app languages.
• AI output is a draft. Check every draft before you export.

Downloads:

• Windows x64 portable ZIP: signed as Scott Converse with Azure Trusted Signing, timestamped, and checked with Authenticode and signtool.
• macOS Apple Silicon DMG: ad-hoc integrity signature only. No Apple publisher certificate or notarization.
• Linux x64 DEB and portable archive: unsigned.
• unix-media-sources-arm64.tar.gz: source code for the media tools inside the Mac app.
• Python wheel, source package and offline documentation.

All files come from the same commit. See SHA256SUMS.txt and release-verification.json for file hashes and provenance.