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>

requirements.txt

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+# Core Dependencies
+numpy>=1.24.0
+pyyaml>=6.0
+
+# Audio Processing
+sounddevice>=0.4.6
+scipy>=1.10.0
+
+# Noise Suppression
+noisereduce>=3.0.0
+webrtcvad>=2.0.10
+
+# Transcription - Using faster-whisper for better real-time performance
+faster-whisper>=0.10.0
+torch>=2.0.0
+
+# GUI - Using CustomTkinter for modern look
+customtkinter>=5.2.0
+pillow>=10.0.0
+
+# Optional: Server sync dependencies (will move to requirements-server.txt later)
+# websockets>=12.0
+# requests>=2.31.0