Windows Mic Listener v1.0.0

Prebuilt Windows mic listener binary for event-driven microphone detection.

Uses WASAPI IAudioSessionManager2 to monitor capture sessions.
Supports --exclude-pid to filter out OpenWhispr's own mic usage.

1.7.5

OpenWhispr 1.7.5

New models and providers, multiple hotkeys per action, and around a dozen fixes across meetings, notes, transcription, and every platform.

New

• Latest cloud models: OpenAI GPT-5.6 (Sol/Terra/Luna) and Anthropic Claude Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 — plus Claude Fable 5 for AWS Bedrock.
• OpenRouter is now a built-in provider, with a searchable, grouped picker for its 300+ models.
• Corti can run AI cleanup and reasoning, not just transcription. For healthcare use, that text stays on Corti (EU) or the HIPAA-compliant OpenWhispr Cloud — never a third-party model.
• Tinfoil confidential transcription now covers uploaded audio, not just live dictation.
• Multiple hotkeys per action — bind more than one key to dictation, agent, voice agent, or meeting.
• Enterprise / AWS Bedrock: region-aware model IDs, a live model catalog, and Agent Mode (tool-calling) support.

Fixed

• Meetings: remote speakers no longer collapse into one; long calls reconnect past the 60-minute limit without losing audio; fewer words dropped during cross-talk.
• Notes: enhancement no longer reuses another note's transcript or renames notes you've already titled.
• Cloud transcription: long recordings retry failed chunks instead of failing or leaving gaps.
• macOS: dictation into Claude Desktop and claude.ai no longer breaks after the first paste.
• Windows: fixed a false "No audio detected", the firewall prompt for local Parakeet, and local transcription failing on some builds.
• Linux: fixed Wayland global-hotkey crashes on Node 24.

Plus several smaller fixes — full list in the changelog.

Thanks

Thanks to @xAlcahest, @danielmccannsayles, @IdrisGit, and @Alexey-Sachko for their work on this release — and a welcome to @Alexey-Sachko on their first contribution!

1.7.4

OpenWhispr 1.7.4

A feature-and-reliability release: two new privacy-first ways to transcribe and reason, native Windows meeting audio, sync that keeps working in the background, and a broad sweep of fixes across dictation, clipboard, updates, and Linux — plus security hardening. Nothing here changes your existing setup; it all just works better.

Highlights

• Tinfoil — confidential cloud (BYOK). A new provider that runs both transcription and AI cleanup/agent inside attested secure enclaves, so your audio and text stay private even when processed in the cloud. (#875, #944)
• Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI speech-to-text. Point the custom transcription provider at your own Azure deployment — OpenWhispr now speaks Azure's endpoint format and auth. (#997)
• Native Windows meeting audio. Meetings now capture sound from every app on every output device instead of only your default speakers, via a native Windows helper. Older Windows automatically falls back to the previous method. (#960)
• Enterprise SSO at sign-in, right from onboarding. (#1034)

Sync

• Runs in the background, even from the tray — dictations upload and other devices' changes pull down on window focus, on network reconnect, and every 5 minutes, even if you never open the main window. (#1070, #1072)
• Snippets now sync across your devices, like your dictionary already does. (#1037)
• No more duplicate folders when you sign in on a new device. (#1086)

Dictation & notes

• Cleaner cleanup — your transcript gets tidied instead of occasionally getting "answered," and dictations only go to your voice agent when you actually address it by name. (#1073)
• Turkish snippets — triggers containing İ / ı now match correctly. (#1050)
• API keys no longer vanish when you type one and click away — a papercut that mostly hit Corti/BYOK onboarding. (#1039)

Clipboard, audio & media

• Rich clipboard formats survive auto-paste, clipboard restore is faster, and pasting reliably targets the right app on macOS. (#1020, #1038, #1000)
• Mic falls back to your default device when a saved one goes stale, and empty recordings no longer crash transcription. (#978, #891)
• Paused music/video resumes the instant you stop recording (not after transcription) and won't get stuck paused on a quick tap. (#1030, #1061)

Platform & reliability

• Updates: fixed a crash on the first "Install & Restart" click after an update — macOS installs no longer stall. (#1012)
• Local transcription: GPU model reloads after sleep, multi-GPU machines pick the right card, the voice-activity model now ships in packaged builds, realtime streaming is hardened, and llama.cpp was updated. (#1032, #1018, #1000, #1044, #995)
• Hotkeys: modifier-only hotkeys (dictation, voice agent, agent, meeting) now work simultaneously on Windows/Linux. (#1001)
• Linux: installs on openSUSE and launches on hardened kernels that restrict user namespaces. (#1014, #1042)
• Self-hosted: transcription endpoints can now choose their own model. (#1043)
• Quieter startup — suppressed benign Qdrant warnings. (#1083)

Security

• Cleared all critical/high dependency alerts and restored lockfile integrity with a CI guard (SOC 2 secure-code hardening). (#1051, #1069)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who shipped 1.7.4 — with a warm welcome to our first-time contributors (*):

@xAlcahest · @Chadpiha · @IdrisGit · @danielmccannsayles* · @zachdotai* · @bikramjitk* · @SyntaxSawdust* · @UmutEmreOnder* · @greatcoat* · @chirag127*

Windows System Audio Helper v1.0.0

Prebuilt Windows system audio helper binary for meeting transcription.

Captures system audio via WASAPI process loopback (exclude mode),
hearing every application on every output device while excluding
OpenWhispr's own audio. Requires Windows 10 2004 or later; older
systems automatically fall back to Chromium display-media loopback.

1.7.3

✨ New

• Snippets — say a shortcut like "cal link" and the full text gets pasted
• Voice Agent hotkey — one key sends your speech straight to your AI assistant
• Medical dictation via Corti for clinical-grade accuracy
• Smarter setup that adapts to how you'll actually use OpenWhispr
• Redesigned dictionary that now syncs across your devices
• Audio upload gets its own settings and a cancel button
• Discarded dictations are saved, so nothing gets lost
• Notification controls to pick which alerts OpenWhispr can show
• New AI models: Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemma 4, plus xAI transcription

1.7.2

OpenWhispr 1.7.2

A small patch on top of 1.7.1 — zero unnecessary Keychain prompts on first launch, cloud transcription working again on Electron's net.fetch, and the Note Formatting selector now actually controls model routing.

Features

• Note Formatting selector now routes Generate Notes. The Note Formatting tab's model / provider / mode selectors were a no-op end-to-end in 1.7.1 — every Generate Notes call silently fell through to the Cleanup model. Now wired through the same per-scope plumbing, with a Cleanup fallback so untouched-settings users keep their current behavior.
• Wave Terminal paste. Wave Terminal is now in the Linux terminal allowlist, so auto-paste routes through Ctrl+Shift+V instead of the default Ctrl+V.

Bug Fixes

• No more spurious macOS Keychain prompts on first launch. First-launch Keychain prompts drop from ~3 to 0. The secret-crypto backend no longer eagerly probes itself before any window appears — it defers Keychain access until you actually save your first secret. The safeStorage key backup is also only written when a new master key is generated, not on every launch.
• Cloud transcription works again. The 1.7.0 migration from https.request to Electron's net.fetch carried over a manual Content-Length header, which Electron rejects as a forbidden Fetch header — failing with net::ERR_INVALID_ARGUMENT before any bytes hit the wire. Fix covers all five upload paths: cloud transcribe, chunked cloud transcribe, retry, file upload, and BYOK whisper-compatible.
• Notes view state stability. Fixed a stale-ref issue where switching between notes could lose unsaved enhanced-content edits.

1.7.1

Features

• macOS mouse-button hotkeys for dictation
• Google Calendar: new "sync primary calendar only" toggle to skip shared ones
• Make automatic note titling optional in Settings
• Smarter local transcription that ignores silence and breathing, fully configurable for local models

Bug Fixes

• Cloud meeting transcription restored after a recent OpenAI Realtime API change
• Local Whisper transcription restored on Windows
• Music auto-pause and resume works again on the latest macOS
• Self-hosted models now use their own URLs and API keys instead of falling back to cleanup settings
• Custom dictionary now reaches meeting note cleanup
• Language preference preserved on retry, in meetings, and in the dictation preview
• Custom prompts sync across windows instantly without restart
• Transcription sync no longer crashes on bad cloud data
• Idle local AI models release GPU memory after a timeout
• Works correctly behind corporate proxies for model downloads, GPU detection, and calendar sync
• Linux: Pop!OS COSMIC support, GNOME Wayland terminal auto-paste, Konsole paste fix, and the dictation overlay no longer steals focus on Sway/i3/Hyprland

1.7.0

Breaking for Mac users: please delete your old OpenWhispr first. 1.7.0 uses a new app ID — we had to migrate Apple Developer accounts, so you'll be asked to re-grant permissions on first launch. Notes, settings, API keys, and downloaded models carry over automatically.

Summary

• More sign-in options — new: Sign in with Microsoft, Sign in with Apple on macOS. Auth runs on our own infra now (migrated to Better Auth); self-hosters can point at their own server.
• Sessions in your OS keychain — survive crashes and Electron restarts. No more random sign-outs.
• API keys encrypted at rest — all 12 BYOK + enterprise creds moved from .env to the OS keychain. Silent one-time migration on first launch.
• Background meeting recording — navigate to other notes, open Settings, switch tabs; the audio pipeline keeps going. New floating pill shows live mic levels and clicks back to the recording note.
• Per-note diarization preferences persist across stop/resume.
• Cleaner mic capture with a new acoustic gate + better echo cancellation. Music pause/resume on Windows works again.
• Per-scope LLM setup — pick different providers/models for cleanup, agent, formatting, and chat. You can now have text cleanup toggled ON but your dictation agent toggled OFF.
• NVIDIA Parakeet parakeet-unified-en-0.6b — new English-only model, 5.91% avg WER, ~631 MB.
• openwhispr CLI talks directly to the desktop app via a local HTTP bridge (127.0.0.1, bearer-token); falls back to cloud when the app is closed.
• Proxy-aware fetches + OS CA trust — corporate TLS interception works.
• Auto-learn corrections now work for Cyrillic, CJK, Arabic, Devanagari.
• A bunch of other small bug fixes and performance improvements.

Detailed changelog

• build(mac): migrate Apple signing to Gizmo Labs Inc. by @gabrielste1n in #639
• fix(qdrant): set cwd to STORAGE_DIR so packaged app doesn't crash on startup by @gabrielste1n in #640
• feat(sync): cross-device delete propagation by @gabrielste1n in #646
• feat(meeting): interop cloud streaming providers + AEC/VAD improvements by @gabrielste1n in #656
• Re-grant permissions modal for 1.6.11 upgraders by @gabrielste1n in #659
• fix(chat): persist first user message when creating a new conversation by @xAlcahest in #662
• fix(tls): trust OS CA store for Node-side TLS; keep realtime WS on OpenAI only by @gabrielste1n in #657
• Fix adding non-ASCII languages to dictionary by @wake0up0ne0 in #666
• Fix dictionary correction tracking for TextPattern-based controls (alongside existing ValuePattern support) by @wake0up0ne0 in #665
• Bundle ID migration: com.herotools.openwispr → com.gizmolabs.openwhispr by @gabrielste1n in #669
• feat(cli): local HTTP bridge for unified CLI by @gabrielste1n in #676
• fix(notes): update folder selection when moving notes between folders by @gabrielste1n in #678
• refactor: split dictation cleanup from dictation agent + per-scope LLM config by @gabrielste1n in #677
• refactor(auth): switch desktop to Better Auth + add Microsoft sign-in by @gabrielste1n in #686
• fix(network): proxy-aware fetches + actionable connectivity errors by @gabrielste1n in #687
• chore(release): 1.7.0 confidence cleanup by @gabrielste1n in #689
• ci(release): rename VITE_NEON_AUTH_URL → VITE_AUTH_URL by @gabrielste1n in #690
• fix(auth): initiate desktop OAuth from browser, not renderer by @gabrielste1n in #692
• feat(auth): Sign in with Apple on macOS by @gabrielste1n in #691
• fix(onnx): cap embedding segments and isolate inference in utility process by @gabrielste1n in #693
• fix(sidecars): reap children on quit and on next launch (#683) by @gabrielste1n in #694
• docs(changelog): plain-English 1.7.0 + lockfile refresh by @gabrielste1n in #695
• fix(llama): raise Vulkan startup timeout, stop server before re-download by @xAlcahest in #698
• fix(media): fall back to media key when GSMTC fails on Windows by @xAlcahest in #697
• docs(readme): acknowledge Hugging Face as model hub by @gabrielste1n in #703
• feat(transcribe): generate clientTranscriptionId for cloud sync dedup by @gabrielste1n in #702
• feat(security): encrypt API keys at rest via safeStorage by @gabrielste1n in #629
• fix(media): use AsTask bridge for WinRT async calls in GSMTC scripts by @xAlcahest in #706
• fix(media): resume playback on no-audio-detected event by @kdenney in #701
• feat(auth): switch desktop to Authorization: Bearer + safeStorage by @gabrielste1n in #704
• fix(ci): compile macos-media-remote binary in release and build workflows by @kdenney in #700
• feat(reasoning): self-hosted OpenAI-compatible parity + thinking-mode toggle by @gabrielste1n in #708
• feat(parakeet): add parakeet-unified-en-0.6b model by @milanleonard in #713
• feat(meeting): background recording with floating pill and responsive layout by @gabrielste1n in #709
• fix(runtime): unblock model downloads, surface ONNX worker errors, dedupe hotkey re-register by @gabrielste1n in #716
• fix(linux): resolve symlink in launcher wrapper by @xAlcahest in #717

New Contributors

• @wake0up0ne0 made their first contribution in #666
• @kdenney made their first contribution in #701
• @milanleonard made their first contribution in #713

1.6.10

Features

• Speaker diarization controls — per-meeting toggle, "N others in call" stepper, auto-label on 1-on-1s, fallback to "You/Others" when labeling is off
• Integrations hub — new top-level view with MCP connectivity for Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor; API keys moved here
• Enterprise connections - connect to your organisations instance via bedrock

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Settings reorganization — "AI Models" split into Speech-to-Text and Language Models with clearer sub-tabs
• Agent hotkey moved under Hotkeys
• Meeting transcription tuned to reduce GPT-4o hallucinations during silence
• Model cache opens at the correct folder so downloaded models are actually visible
• Sync — cleared transcripts and deleted folders no longer reappear after restart
• Echo leak detector now runs pre-AEC so it can actually see system audio bleed

1.6.9

New features

Transcript Export — Save transcripts to disk as TXT, SRT, or JSON directly from the meeting view.

Cloud Sync — Notes, folders, conversations, and transcriptions now sync bidirectionally across devices.

API Keys — Create and manage API keys from Settings to integrate OpenWhispr with your workflows programmatically.

Linux Push-to-Talk — Native push-to-talk via evdev with guided permission setup.

Auto-Paste Toggle — New setting to disable automatic pasting after dictation.

Agent Folders — The agent can now list, create, and match folders semantically when organizing notes.

Improvements

• Upgraded to Electron 41 and Node 24
• Redesigned provider tabs as compact pill buttons
• Local model descriptions replaced with clickable spec links
• llama.cpp detection now probes /v1/models and prefers /chat/completions

Fixes

• Windows hotkey no longer false-triggers after Win+L lock/unlock
• Fixed stuck recording when push-to-talk key-up is missed on Windows
• Relaxed speech gate thresholds with no-audio toast for failed transcriptions
• Retry button now shown on failed transcriptions
• Notes sync when updated externally
• Tuned speaker diarization to prevent excessive speaker creation
• TLS/certificate errors now surfaced in model download UI
• Floating icon position persists across restarts
• Fixed notification window sizing and dismiss circle visibility