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*