# WhispAssist v0.7.1

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

A quality-of-life release focused on **importing meetings, taking notes, and living in the
background**. Adding a meeting from a file or link now runs without freezing the app and shows you
exactly where it's up to; notes gained AI cleanup and quick formatting; and WhispAssist can now mute
your mic mid-meeting and tuck itself into the system tray. No feature here changes the privacy
posture: everything optional stays off-by-default and local-first.

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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## ✨ New

### Add a meeting — now in the background, with a progress tracker
Importing a recording (a local audio/video file or a YouTube/streaming/direct URL) no longer blocks
the app while it works. Click **Import** and the meeting appears in your list immediately with a
**four-step progress tracker** — *Transcode → Transcribe → Identify speakers → Finalize* — where the
current step pulses and finished steps show how long they took. A 25-minute video that used to lock
the window for ~13 minutes now transcribes quietly in the background.

- **Pick the transcription model** right in the dialog, and see **"Transcribed with …"** on the
  finished meeting so you always know how it was produced.
- **One-click links** to download `ffmpeg` and `yt-dlp` (still external, not bundled).
- A failed import stays in your list marked **error** instead of vanishing.

### Better notes
- **AI-enhance** (✨): turn rough notes into clean, structured notes using your local LLM, with a
  one-step **Undo**. Off unless you have a local model configured.
- **Slash commands & a formatting toolbar**: type `/todo`, `/h1`, `/quote`, … or use the toolbar for
  headings, lists, checkboxes, quotes, and dividers.
- **Fix:** notes no longer show stale text after re-transcribing a meeting — the pane updates in
  place, no restart needed.

### Mute your microphone — press **M**
Mute/unmute the mic mid-meeting with the **M** key or the new mic button by the level meter. The mic
channel goes silent (recording, live transcript, and meter) while system/loopback audio keeps
capturing.

### Close to system tray
Closing the window now **keeps WhispAssist running in the background** instead of quitting. Reopen it
from the tray icon; the tray's **Quit** exits fully. On by default — toggle it in
**Settings ▸ Recording ▸ Close to system tray**. (This release also fixes a bug that showed **two**
WhispAssist icons in the tray — there's now just one.)

### Privacy & hardware odds and ends
- **Vault lock card** in **Settings ▸ Privacy**: lock/unlock the encrypted store and change its
  password at a glance.
- **Test your audio devices**: a live level meter for your mic and system audio, plus a test tone.
- **Quick hardware stress test**: benchmark the available backends against your installed models and
  apply the fastest real-time combination.
- Tidier recording header.

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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 — the Import dialog now links to both.

1. Download **`WhispAssist_0.7.1_x64_en-US.msi`** (or the NSIS **`WhispAssist_0.7.1_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, does **not** add itself to startup unless you opt in, and keeps all data under
`%LOCALAPPDATA%\WhispAssist`.

Deploying to many machines? See [`docs/enterprise-deployment.md`](docs/enterprise-deployment.md).

## 🔐 Checksums (SHA-256)

```
bd96a059db3658a9bee81161edc709cfc4741ed99d6c66a12194403b339f9369  WhispAssist_0.7.1_x64_en-US.msi
711fa7df618c8fc3f03c18d543abad2288d56f750b532288204e0ec0f9426595  WhispAssist_0.7.1_x64-setup.exe
```

Verify after download:

```powershell
Get-FileHash .\WhispAssist_0.7.1_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 deployment file never carries secrets. The
reachable-host allowlist is derived from your settings and enforced in the core.