Initial commit: Local Transcription App v1.0

Phase 1 Complete - Standalone Desktop Application

Features:
- Real-time speech-to-text with Whisper (faster-whisper)
- PySide6 desktop GUI with settings dialog
- Web server for OBS browser source integration
- Audio capture with automatic sample rate detection and resampling
- Noise suppression with Voice Activity Detection (VAD)
- Configurable display settings (font, timestamps, fade duration)
- Settings apply without restart (with automatic model reloading)
- Auto-fade for web display transcriptions
- CPU/GPU support with automatic device detection
- Standalone executable builds (PyInstaller)
- CUDA build support (works on systems without CUDA hardware)

Components:
- Audio capture with sounddevice
- Noise reduction with noisereduce + webrtcvad
- Transcription with faster-whisper
- GUI with PySide6
- Web server with FastAPI + WebSocket
- Configuration system with YAML

Build System:
- Standard builds (CPU-only): build.sh / build.bat
- CUDA builds (universal): build-cuda.sh / build-cuda.bat
- Comprehensive BUILD.md documentation
- Cross-platform support (Linux, Windows)

Documentation:
- README.md with project overview and quick start
- BUILD.md with detailed build instructions
- NEXT_STEPS.md with future enhancement roadmap
- INSTALL.md with setup instructions

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

build.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# Build script for Linux
+
+echo "Building Local Transcription for Linux..."
+echo "========================================="
+
+# Clean previous builds
+echo "Cleaning previous builds..."
+rm -rf build dist
+
+# Build with PyInstaller
+echo "Running PyInstaller..."
+uv run pyinstaller local-transcription.spec
+
+# Check if build succeeded
+if [ -d "dist/LocalTranscription" ]; then
+    echo ""
+    echo "✓ Build successful!"
+    echo "Executable location: dist/LocalTranscription/LocalTranscription"
+    echo ""
+    echo "To run the application:"
+    echo "  cd dist/LocalTranscription"
+    echo "  ./LocalTranscription"
+    echo ""
+    echo "To create a distributable package:"
+    echo "  cd dist"
+    echo "  tar -czf LocalTranscription-Linux.tar.gz LocalTranscription/"
+else
+    echo ""
+    echo "✗ Build failed!"
+    exit 1
+fi