OpenWhispr 1.7.6

Dictation translation, audio import with speaker detection, GPU support for AMD and Intel, live streaming transcription — and a deep round of self-hosted and reliability fixes.

New

• Translation mode — dictate in any language and paste the text in another. Its own hotkey, up to 5 target languages, and a dedicated model, configured under Settings → AI Models → Translation.
• Import audio from URLs and in batches — paste a YouTube or direct audio link, queue up to 50 URLs and files, and turn on Speaker detection to label who said what. Detection runs on-device by default.
• Vulkan GPU acceleration — the one-click local Whisper GPU flow now covers AMD Radeon and Intel Arc/integrated GPUs on Windows and Linux, with automatic CPU fallback.
• NVIDIA Nemotron streaming models — live text as you speak from a persistent local stream, and dictation now commits the streamed text the moment you stop (no second decode, roughly half the CPU per dictation).
• Liquid AI LFM2/LFM2.5 — five new local reasoning models for on-device cleanup, down to a 0.25 GB model that runs on modest hardware.
• Collapsible sidebar — collapse it for full-width notes; hover the left edge to peek.
• Meeting prompts, unified — calendar reminders now use the in-app overlay (they survive Focus/Do Not Disturb and never appear in screen shares), with one-click Join & transcribe when the event has a meeting link.

Fixed

• Self-hosted: audio uploads, History retries, note formatting, and Chat all respect your self-hosted server now — no more silent fallback to a cloud provider — plus model lists work without /v1 and "disable thinking" works on Ollama.
• Local AI: starting a local cleanup model no longer freezes the whole machine — the llama server runs with a bounded context, and a model that truly doesn't fit fails with a visible error.
• Cleanup providers: Mistral works as a custom provider instead of failing with a 422, Groq no longer fails silently, and if cleanup ever fails your dictation is pasted raw with a toast instead of being lost.
• macOS: pausing your music during dictation works again on macOS 15.4+, and Fn+Arrow shortcuts no longer trigger stray push-to-talk recordings.
• Microphones: a muted or vanished mic falls back to the default device instead of recording silence, and your selection survives Chromium's device-ID rotation.
• Windows: Parakeet installs no longer hang behind an old PATH tar, and the event-driven mic listener that powers meeting detection now actually ships.
• Linux: .deb installs and upgrades no longer fail in containers — and upgrading no longer deletes your downloaded models.
• Notes: search works in every language (Cyrillic, CJK, Arabic, accented text), and Generate Notes regenerates auto-assigned titles while leaving yours alone.

Plus many more — full list in the changelog.

Thanks

Thanks to @xAlcahest, @Chadpiha, and @sgrimbly for their work on this release — and a warm welcome to first-time contributors @hsusul, @sochotnicky, @cgkades, and @Serhii-Leniv!