# WhispAssist v0.5.1

**Privacy-first, Windows-native meeting assistant — everything on-device, nothing leaves unless you say so.**

v0.5.0 put the **i18n groundwork** in place. v0.5.1 fills it in: WhispAssist now ships in
**20 languages**, so you can run the whole app — the shell, meetings list, transcript/notes, summary
panel, and every corner of Settings — in your own language. Everything stays off-by-default and
local-first; this is a UI-language release with no change to what leaves your device (nothing, by default).

One universal installer (**MSI** and **NSIS**) covers every machine: **Vulkan** for all GPUs
(NVIDIA/AMD/Intel), the Intel **NPU** (OpenVINO), a **DirectML** fallback, and **CPU**.

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## ✨ Highlights

### 20 interface languages
Pick your language under **Settings ▸ Language**. Alongside English, this release adds full
translations for:

- **Arabic** (العربية) · **Bengali** (বাংলা) · **German** (Deutsch)
- **Spanish** — Spain (Español, España) and **Mexico** (Español, México)
- **Finnish** (Suomi) · **French** — France (Français, France) and **Canada** (Français, Canada)
- **Hindi** (हिन्दी) · **Korean** (한국어) · **Norwegian Bokmål** (Norsk bokmål)
- **Portuguese** — Brazil (Português, Brasil) and **Portugal** (Português, Portugal)
- **Russian** (Русский) · **Sinhala** (සිංහල) · **Swedish** (Svenska)
- **Tamil** (தமிழ்) · **Urdu** (اردو) · **Mandarin Chinese, Simplified** (中文简体)

Your choice persists across launches, and any untranslated string quietly falls back to English rather
than showing a raw key — so partial translations degrade gracefully.

### Right-to-left layout
Selecting **Arabic** or **Urdu** flips the whole interface to **right-to-left**, so those languages
read and lay out correctly rather than being crammed into an LTR shell.

Adding a further language remains a one-file job — drop in a single JSON translation, no code changes.

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## 📦 Install

**Requirements:** Windows 10 or 11 (x64). WhispAssist needs **WebView2** (preinstalled on Windows 11;
the installer fetches it on Windows 10). Importing from a file/URL additionally needs **`ffmpeg`**
(and **`yt-dlp`** for URLs) on your PATH — install those separately.

1. Download **`WhispAssist_0.5.1_x64_en-US.msi`** (or the NSIS **`WhispAssist_0.5.1_x64-setup.exe`**).
2. Run it and accept the UAC prompt. If SmartScreen appears, choose **More info → Run anyway**.
3. Launch **WhispAssist** from the Start menu.

On first run WA picks the best transcription backend (**NPU → NVIDIA → AMD → Intel → CPU**). It runs
without admin rights, never adds itself to startup, and keeps all data under
`%LOCALAPPDATA%\WhispAssist`.

## 🔐 Checksums (SHA-256)

```
911618e6996a079bad1cbe46731c89ee247f3f5f17c09b60091d7e6a5e7cbef0  WhispAssist_0.5.1_x64_en-US.msi
ffabbd74def981da176931349b2813a3927d7376c0d18e9d191891abfc17c385  WhispAssist_0.5.1_x64-setup.exe
```

Verify after download:

```powershell
Get-FileHash .\WhispAssist_0.5.1_x64_en-US.msi -Algorithm SHA256
```

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## Privacy, unchanged
Everything optional is **off by default**. With nothing configured, WhispAssist makes **no content
egress at all**. Recording is opt-in; sync/AI credentials live only in the OS credential store; the
MCP server is loopback-only and adds no egress. The reachable-host allowlist is derived from your
settings and enforced in the core.