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Local Transcriber 0.8.2

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@teconomix teconomix released this 24 Oct 08:43
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v0.8.2
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Bugfix release – recommended for everyone using the folder watcher or the MCP server.

Install or update (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+):

curl -fsSL https://transcriber.teconomix.net/install.sh | bash

Homebrew: brew upgrade --cask local-transcriber. Running the installer again updates an existing installation and restarts the folder watcher.

Fixed

  • Long-running processes (folder watcher, MCP server) kept the GPU caches of Whisper (MLX) and speaker separation (PyTorch/MPS) after every transcription – about 10 GB, growing with recordings of different lengths. After a batch of recordings the watcher could use all memory and the Mac stopped responding (kernel panic, watchdog timeout). The caches are now released after each job: measured 12 GB → about 3 GB between jobs. Note that ps does not show this GPU memory; footprint -p <pid> does.
  • Includes the 0.8.1 fix (random FileNotFoundError in the progress status file).
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