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.

✨ 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.

📦 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.

Download WhispAssist_0.5.1_x64_en-US.msi (or the NSIS WhispAssist_0.5.1_x64-setup.exe).
Run it and accept the UAC prompt. If SmartScreen appears, choose More info → Run anyway.
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)

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Verify after download:

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

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.

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