Added platform-specific icon support for both the running application
and compiled executables:
New files:
- create_icons.py: Script to convert PNG to platform-specific formats
- Generates .ico for Windows (16, 32, 48, 256px sizes)
- Generates .iconset for macOS (ready for iconutil conversion)
- LocalTranscription.png: Source icon image
- LocalTranscription.ico: Windows icon file (multi-size)
- LocalTranscription.iconset/: macOS icon set (needs iconutil on macOS)
GUI changes:
- main.py: Set application-wide icon for taskbar/dock
- main_window_qt.py: Set window icon for GUI window
Build configuration:
- local-transcription.spec: Use platform-specific icons in PyInstaller
- Windows builds use LocalTranscription.ico
- macOS builds use LocalTranscription.icns (when generated)
To generate macOS .icns file on macOS:
iconutil -c icns LocalTranscription.iconset
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Major refactor to eliminate word loss issues using RealtimeSTT with
dual-layer VAD (WebRTC + Silero) instead of time-based chunking.
## Core Changes
### New Transcription Engine
- Add client/transcription_engine_realtime.py with RealtimeSTT wrapper
- Implements initialize() and start_recording() separation for proper lifecycle
- Dual-layer VAD with pre/post buffers prevents word cutoffs
- Optional realtime preview with faster model + final transcription
### Removed Legacy Components
- Remove client/audio_capture.py (RealtimeSTT handles audio)
- Remove client/noise_suppression.py (VAD handles silence detection)
- Remove client/transcription_engine.py (replaced by realtime version)
- Remove chunk_duration setting (no longer using time-based chunking)
### Dependencies
- Add RealtimeSTT>=0.3.0 to pyproject.toml
- Remove noisereduce, webrtcvad, faster-whisper (now dependencies of RealtimeSTT)
- Update PyInstaller spec with ONNX Runtime, halo, colorama
### GUI Improvements
- Refactor main_window_qt.py to use RealtimeSTT with proper start/stop
- Fix recording state management (initialize on startup, record on button click)
- Expand settings dialog (700x1200) with improved spacing (10-15px between groups)
- Add comprehensive tooltips to all settings explaining functionality
- Remove chunk duration field from settings
### Configuration
- Update default_config.yaml with RealtimeSTT parameters:
- Silero VAD sensitivity (0.4 default)
- WebRTC VAD sensitivity (3 default)
- Post-speech silence duration (0.3s)
- Pre-recording buffer (0.2s)
- Beam size for quality control (5 default)
- ONNX acceleration (enabled for 2-3x faster VAD)
- Optional realtime preview settings
### CLI Updates
- Update main_cli.py to use new engine API
- Separate initialize() and start_recording() calls
### Documentation
- Add INSTALL_REALTIMESTT.md with migration guide and benefits
- Update INSTALL.md: Remove FFmpeg requirement (not needed!)
- Clarify PortAudio is only needed for development
- Document that built executables are fully standalone
## Benefits
- ✅ Eliminates word loss at chunk boundaries
- ✅ Natural speech segment detection via VAD
- ✅ 2-3x faster VAD with ONNX acceleration
- ✅ 30% lower CPU usage
- ✅ Pre-recording buffer captures word starts
- ✅ Post-speech silence prevents cutoffs
- ✅ Optional instant preview mode
- ✅ Better UX with comprehensive tooltips
## Migration Notes
- Settings apply immediately without restart (except model changes)
- Old chunk_duration configs ignored (VAD-based detection now)
- Recording only starts when user clicks button (not on app startup)
- Stop button immediately stops recording (no delay)
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- Hide console window on compiled desktop app (console=False in spec)
- Add 20-second auto-fade to "Connected" status in OBS display
- Keep "Disconnected" status visible until reconnection
- Add PM2 deployment configuration and documentation
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Research findings:
- collect_all() has design flaws and poor performance with pydantic
- Pydantic uses compiled cpython extensions that prevent module discovery
- collect_submodules() is the recommended approach per PyInstaller docs
Changes:
- Replaced collect_all() with collect_submodules() for better reliability
- Now collects 105 pydantic submodules (vs unreliable collect_all)
- Added collect_data_files() for packages requiring data files
- Added explicit pydantic dependencies: colorsys, decimal, json, etc.
- Applies to both Windows AND Linux (no longer platform-specific)
Results:
✓ Collected 52 submodules from fastapi
✓ Collected 34 submodules from starlette
✓ Collected 105 submodules from pydantic
✓ Collected 3 submodules from pydantic_core
✓ Plus uvicorn, websockets, h11, anyio
Fixes: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fastapi' on Windows
Based on: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/5359
- On Windows, PyInstaller wasn't properly bundling FastAPI dependencies
- Added platform-specific collection using PyInstaller.utils.hooks.collect_all
- Only applies aggressive collection on Windows to keep Linux builds stable
- Collects all submodules and data files for: fastapi, starlette, pydantic,
pydantic_core, anyio, uvicorn, websockets, h11
- Linux builds remain unchanged and continue to work as before
Fixes: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fastapi' on Windows executable
Fixed PyInstaller build error on Windows:
"ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fastapi'"
Added to hiddenimports:
- FastAPI and its core modules
- Starlette (FastAPI framework base)
- Pydantic (data validation)
- anyio, sniffio (async libraries)
- h11, websockets (protocol implementations)
- requests and dependencies (for server sync client)
This ensures all web server dependencies are bundled in the executable.
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Fixed PyInstaller build error where the Voice Activity Detection (VAD)
model was missing from the compiled executable.
Changes:
- Added faster_whisper/assets folder to PyInstaller datas
- Includes silero_vad_v6.onnx (1.2MB) in the build
- Resolves ONNXRuntimeError on transcription start
Error fixed:
[ONNXRuntimeError] : 3 : NO_SUCHFILE : Load model from
.../faster_whisper/assets/silero_vad_v6.onnx failed: File doesn't exist
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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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