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# WhispAssist v0.5.1
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**Privacy-first, Windows-native meeting assistant — everything on-device, nothing leaves unless you say so.**
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v0.5.0 put the **i18n groundwork** in place. v0.5.1 fills it in: WhispAssist now ships in
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**20 languages**, so you can run the whole app — the shell, meetings list, transcript/notes, summary
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panel, and every corner of Settings — in your own language. Everything stays off-by-default and
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local-first; this is a UI-language release with no change to what leaves your device (nothing, by default).
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One universal installer (**MSI** and **NSIS**) covers every machine: **Vulkan** for all GPUs
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(NVIDIA/AMD/Intel), the Intel **NPU** (OpenVINO), a **DirectML** fallback, and **CPU**.
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---
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## ✨ Highlights
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### 20 interface languages
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Pick your language under **Settings ▸ Language**. Alongside English, this release adds full
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translations for:
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- **Arabic** (العربية) · **Bengali** (বাংলা) · **German** (Deutsch)
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- **Spanish** — Spain (Español, España) and **Mexico** (Español, México)
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- **Finnish** (Suomi) · **French** — France (Français, France) and **Canada** (Français, Canada)
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- **Hindi** (हिन्दी) · **Korean** (한국어) · **Norwegian Bokmål** (Norsk bokmål)
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- **Portuguese** — Brazil (Português, Brasil) and **Portugal** (Português, Portugal)
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- **Russian** (Русский) · **Sinhala** (සිංහල) · **Swedish** (Svenska)
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- **Tamil** (தமிழ்) · **Urdu** (اردو) · **Mandarin Chinese, Simplified** (中文简体)
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Your choice persists across launches, and any untranslated string quietly falls back to English rather
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than showing a raw key — so partial translations degrade gracefully.
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### Right-to-left layout
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Selecting **Arabic** or **Urdu** flips the whole interface to **right-to-left**, so those languages
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read and lay out correctly rather than being crammed into an LTR shell.
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Adding a further language remains a one-file job — drop in a single JSON translation, no code changes.
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---
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## 📦 Install
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**Requirements:** Windows 10 or 11 (x64). WhispAssist needs **WebView2** (preinstalled on Windows 11;
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the installer fetches it on Windows 10). Importing from a file/URL additionally needs **`ffmpeg`**
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(and **`yt-dlp`** for URLs) on your PATH — install those separately.
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1. Download **`WhispAssist_0.5.1_x64_en-US.msi`** (or the NSIS **`WhispAssist_0.5.1_x64-setup.exe`**).
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2. Run it and accept the UAC prompt. If SmartScreen appears, choose **More info → Run anyway**.
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3. Launch **WhispAssist** from the Start menu.
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On first run WA picks the best transcription backend (**NPU → NVIDIA → AMD → Intel → CPU**). It runs
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without admin rights, never adds itself to startup, and keeps all data under
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`%LOCALAPPDATA%\WhispAssist`.
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## 🔐 Checksums (SHA-256)
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```
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911618e6996a079bad1cbe46731c89ee247f3f5f17c09b60091d7e6a5e7cbef0 WhispAssist_0.5.1_x64_en-US.msi
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ffabbd74def981da176931349b2813a3927d7376c0d18e9d191891abfc17c385 WhispAssist_0.5.1_x64-setup.exe
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```
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Verify after download:
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```powershell
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Get-FileHash .\WhispAssist_0.5.1_x64_en-US.msi -Algorithm SHA256
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```
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---
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## Privacy, unchanged
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Everything optional is **off by default**. With nothing configured, WhispAssist makes **no content
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egress at all**. Recording is opt-in; sync/AI credentials live only in the OS credential store; the
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MCP server is loopback-only and adds no egress. The reachable-host allowlist is derived from your
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settings and enforced in the core.
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