v0.5

New:

• WebVTT output, allows importing noScribe transcripts into EXMARaLDA
• plain text output (*.txt)
• improved speaker detection: number of speakers can be defined beforehand
• reduced hallucination and looping by adding a VAD filter
• automatic update notification on new releases
• editor opens automatically (can be disabled in advanced options)

Fixes:

• CUDA support now non-beta
• small fixes with hebrew language setting, chinese UI locale, Linux support, etc.

bugfix: Version 0.4.1

Version 0.4 had a bug which caused problems in combination with NVIDIA graphics cards under Windows. Vers. 0.4.1 fixes this. If you did not experience this bug, you don't have to update.

vers. 0.4 beta is out

changelog:

• much improved speaker detection/separation
• new option to mark pauses (sections with no voice activity) in the transcript
• new option to mark overlapping speech (experimental)
• new option to include timestamps in the transcript
• new noScribe Editor app to check and correct transcripts (no MS Word-Macros anymore)
• noScribe now outputs an HTML-file which can be opened in every major word editor (MS Word, LibreOffice, OpenOffice...) or QDA-software package
• many changes under the hood to prepare for an upcoming macOS-version and improve reliability and quality of the transcription
• switched from "whisper.cpp" to "faster-whisper" as the basic framework (mainly because of the more precise timestamps)

Version 0.3 released

This is the first non-beta release.
I have corrected some issues and added some new features and improvements.
You can download v0.3 from here: https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.3

new:

• Translations of the user interface into Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese. Thank you, mlynar-czyk, for this contribution! Be aware: These translations have been generated with a clever use of chatGPT. Please report any errors that you will find and make – if possible – a pull request with a better translation.
• Added hyperlinks to the main window. You can now open the finished transcript directly by clicking on the filename in the log.
• Improved speaker identification, especially in situations with quick changes (by reducing "max-len" in whisper to 30).
• Installer now runs without admin rights. You should be able to install noScribe on a computer where you don’t have administrator privileges (i.e., because the machine is managed by the IT-department of your university). Thanks you, BabyFnord, for this suggestion!

fixes:

• To solve the problem described in issue #2 (transcription failing with error 3221225794 or 3221225501), I have now included a version of whisper.cpp that supports older hardware (non AVX2). NoScribe selects automatically which version to use. Be aware though that using such old hardware will result in a very slow transcription.
• Corrected UTF-8 encoding error that resulted in a failing transcription in some languages (i.e., Japanese, Hungarian). Thank you to the two people reporting this problem via e-mail!
• fixed: Auto save was saving too often during transcription.
• fixed: Play along function in Word sometimes not finding the beginning of the transcription
• fixed: Funny mistake in readme ("sensible data" instead of "sensitive data"). Thanks TheOnlyWayUp!

Initial Release (v0.2-beta)

Happy to publish my first release!

You can download the windows installer from here:
https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j > go to folder "0.2b"

Switch drive is a secure data sharing platform for Swiss universities.
Consider this a beta version.