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🎶 Whisper Mate - Batch local transcribe audio/movie to text with Whisper AI Model. Keep Privacy Safe!

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Features

Whisper Mate support batch transcribe audio files or movie files into text with OpenAI's Whisper AI Model. With an embed subtitles editor to preview the transcription result segment by segment.
All transcribe operation is processing in local machine. Keep your privacy safe.

V5.5.1

Fixed crash on automation translation when project finish
148 MB

V5.5.0

Add Deepgram nova-2 model option
Add realtime transcribe float window support custom transparent percent
Add realtime transcribe option show translated content only
Add realtime float window custom style options (background color, font color)
Fixed automation options not invoke when using deepgram transcribe engine
Fixed realtime transcribe float window can't close sometime
148 MB

V5.4.9

Add batch export projects template feature, it can export the selected projects result into one file from template script
Bug fixes and performance improvements
148 MB

V5.4.8

Add privacy settings in main window bottom status bar, it can disable event analytics & crash report & local log
Add script example to delete rows that match conditions
Add script example to replace subtitle string like '(Music) Music [Music]' to empty string
Add script write back property .memo .markWarn .warnMsg
Add previewer subtitle delay display option
Add batch modify subtitle start or end time in subtitle editor toolkit
Add (⇧)+←→ shortcut in subtitle editor to quick seek previewer jump 5 seconds or 30 seconds
Add speaker control bar and support quick set with shortcuts
Fixed previewer subtitle can't hidden issue
Fixed template editor can't cut text to clipboard & can't select by drag
Fixed export custom template .t0f5 .t0f4 .t0f2 time range format still return 3 digital number in millisecond
148 MB

V5.4.7

Add auto start project option when file added to project list (toggle is on main window bottom statusbar)
Add automation step of auto export file to custom folder
Add automation step to mail result to your mailbox (It can auto use previous auto export result as attachment)
Upgrade the template & javascript editor to fix crash issues
148 MB

V5.4.6

Add media preview subtitle layout option, source transcript & translated subtitle can control display up or down side.
Add large v3 coreml model
Add shortcut ⌘+⌥+f or double tap preview to quick switch to fullscreen
Some shortcuts now support press single char to fire (merge,split,tune)
After merge subtitle now auto selected the first merge row
Canceled bind default open app with whisper mate for audio and video files
Fixed some crash bug in V5.4.5
Fixed notification display issue
Fixed some translate issue
123 MB

V5.4.5

❗Universal Version may need to download again. Cause i upgrade my development device, And forget to save the Universal deployment EDKey.
Add automation feature to exec jobs when project transcribe finish (Merge repeats/Snapshot/Script/Translate)
Add max segment length transcribe option
Add model prompt examples.
Add replace to with char '\n' (single slash with char n) to new line in replace feature
Upgrade project transcribe options config interface.
122 MB

V5.4.4

Add model cloud list in model config panel with 2 download host support. (Change to host2 if you can't download it in host1)
Fallback support use CoreML module when disable GPU Accelerate option in general settings
Fixed download large model fail issue
Fixed crash issue on not apple silicon device.
Download universal edtiton 122 MB

V5.4.3

Improve transcribe speed
Add support whisper large v3 model
Add LibreTranslator engine support
Add duplicate project in project context menu
Update speaker field can direct input in edit mode (⌘+E)
Fixed tabbed window issue when tabbed count > 2
Fixed waveform view sometime crash issue
Fixed translate in subtitle editor can't translate selected rows

V5.4.2

Add config whisper process threads count option. (Use less threads let computer to do other jobs, but process time will increase)
Add deepgram transcribe engine support, also support in realtime stream transcribe mode.
Add template example for export custom speaker content only
Add search keyword start with @ to filter speaker rows or replace all speaker name to another name (ex: @tom-->jack)
Add feature to save latest project speakers config and reuse in new project.
Custom template export add support to 9 custom templates now.

V5.4.1

Add Intranet web remote manage feature, use your phone or other device to add file to process and view processing states (In the main window bottom status bar)
Add ai parameters config template selector.
Add suppress punctuation ai parameter
Add javascript to use sync http request to get or post data (You can use it to post the subtitle row data to your local llm service to get inference fix result then fill back to origin subtitle, or post to other http/https system service, load the http example from the javascript processor to see how to use it)
Fix denoise wav error when file path contain space char

V5.4

Add quick cut feature
Add shortcut (c) to show or hide subtitle editor preview player
Add shortcut to change subtitle editor preview player speed
Replace silent strategy to chunks strategy
Fixed denoise option bug
Download universal edtiton 122 MB

The new Quick Cut feature has the following functionalities:

Visualize audio waveform to precisely locate and trim videos.
Split longer multimedia files into multiple segments for separate processing before transcription.
Use chunks strategy to skip silent or non-transcribable segments.
Trim separately the segments that require transcription into individual files.

V5.3.1

Add project priority attribute in batch process queue, higher priority will process first (Option is in context-menu)
Subtitle text replace feature also replace matched keyword in translated text
Fixed Re-transcribe with skip silent strategy & reduce noise issues

V5.3

Add more tuned-models (small/medium) for languages
Add transcribe strategy to skip silent segment (classified by decibels & silent duration)
Add option to reduce background noise.
Add option to make transcribe suppress subtitles show ahead of timestamp (no spoiler).
Add example javascript processor to capitalize segment subtitle

V5.2

Add fine-tuned models for difference language inference. cantonese/zh/ko/jp/de/fr/th/uk...
Add feature to add local tuned Whisper AI Model into Whisper Mate.
Add feature to batch setup project model parameters
Add option to prevent screensaver start when has running queue.
Fixed when system screensaver started, processing task paused.
Fixed subtitle editor row click sometime can't navigate to player position
Fixed subtitle editor modified text undo & redo can't call from context menu
Fixed batch export when combine time range not match

V5.1

Add feature to batch export projects segments/srt/template with option to combine into one file
Add feature to re-transcribe the selected rows with difference ai parameters
Add feature to undo or redo text change in subtitle text content with manual typing change (Shortcuts ⌘+Z undo / ⌘+⇧+Z redo)
Add feature to add new empty subtitle row below selected row (Shortcuts ⌘+N)
Add feature to send project finished notification via Slack incoming webhook. (You can get notification on phone when each project transcribe finished)
Fixed media play control box location not align center when in Up-Down style layout

V5.0

Add kit to quick auto merge subtitle in consecutive paragraphs
Add custom script processor to batch tune the transcribed subtitles
Add subtitle editor tune feature. it similar split & merge feature. it can select multi-row then tune them in one textfield line by line
Add subtitle editor with more shortcuts support.
Add custom font to video preview subtitle style config panel.
Add custom font to burn hard subtitle to origin video config panel.
Add export support pdf or docx, simple set export suffix to pdf or docx
Add more predefined export example format. You can load from example then make an simple tune the template result.
Add feature to make snapshots of current project's subtitles state. Then easy recover back to the saved snapshots.
Add feature to import .srt to current project as snapshot.
Add option to set preview video subtitle display translated text over source text.
Add custom export functions. random numbers & random guid & escXML & replaceString with custom format
Add custom export output type (file or clipboard)
Add custom export option on use all subtitles to export or only the selected
Add project editor window group with main window option
Add extra whisper model process parameters config in model selector (in bottom-right corner), may be not easy to find. Cause most case do not need to modify these parameters
Optimize fullscreen preview video behaviors
Search keyword support or condition (use | to as the or keyword . ex "hi|hello|hey")
Optimize the search & replace logic. When replace exec do search keywords will tune to show src keywords & replaced keywords
Optimize realtime stream transcribe logic
Fixed some sub window do not bring to front issue
Fixed export xml format some bugs
Fixed some media extract wav fail
Fixed leave replace keyword field will auto fired replace action issue
Fixed stream project some crash issue

V4.0

Add feature to remember the project subtitle editor's layout properties. Each project can use difference layout and preview player size.(old project need to open again then will remember the layout properties)
Add option to find duplicated subtitle in editor
Add context menu option to open editor even transcribe script process not start
Add export subtitles to .sbv format
Add custom export templates features (like .fcpxml, .itt, .ttml)
Add new plugin
Add frequently use keywords & replace config option for quick reuse search or replace
Add marked row show an Mark flag in preview player's progress view
Add mark option in subtitle editor context menu
Add split row feature in subtitle editor when select single row
Add search result show project name in row
Add show error info when pre-progress media encounter error
Add option to hide editor locate row button
Add ⌘+S shortcut to quick export .srt to file
Fixed media channel audio meta info get two audio channel but in fact one. (add option to ignore audio channel select)
Fixed burn subtitle fail when project name has manual changed
Fixed some UI issues on macOS12
Fixed stay on feature not lock show status bar icon option
Fixed some light theme UI display issues

V3.5 Features

Add subtitles audio clip download feature. Now you can select any subtitles then use context menu to download it's audio clip, when selected multi-rows, it will auto merge into one audio clip.
Add tiny floating window style for realtime capture audio
Add Menubar context menu can quick start record stream to project with new floating window
Add quick play segment row range audio in global search result or direct download the search result audio range clip
Add Models download now support breakpoint resume
Add subtitle memo features, now you can add memo to any subtitle in the editor
Add azure translate option
Add global subtitle search in all projects
Add highlight search keywords in search result
Add default shortcuts for quick control window like Close/Zoom/Minimize
Add option to hide main toolbar's label
Changed Batch start button move from the main toolbar to context menu
Fixed replace can't replace with empty string
Fixed missing small & small-en models in backup servers
Fixed recorded audio file player's slider location subtitle issue

Features

Transcribe audio or video files
Support capture and transcribe audio in other app like (Zoom/Skype/Teams/Other App, macOS13.0+ Only & need Screen Recording Permission)
Use DeepL free api translate subtitles
Embed subtitle editor to fix transcription
Export to SRT,VTT,CSV,JSON,SEGMENT
Support set speaker to each subtitle
Most operation support batch select to invoke. Like batch task run. batch rows translate. batch rows set speaker
Support drag and drop files to start transcription
Support typing on search transcript
Editor can preview audio or video file sync the playing range
Dxport selected subtitles's media range to an new media clip file
Dxport video with burn hard subtitles to the original video & custom subtitle style
Direct preview subtitle inside video preview (subtitle style can be custom in preference panel)
Record microphone audio and support realtime transcribe (macOS13+)
Subtitle merge features. Segment range & subtitle will merge into one row.
Record app audio will auto save to file and can be turn it into an new transcribe project.
Duplicate subtitle row and allow modify it's content or time range to fine tune full subtitles
Support media preview replay speed custom
Support ⌘+V to paste copied files to process queue
Cpu usage percent display when whisper processing
Support archive projects by context menu (Keep working project list clean)
Support google translate in subtitles translate control
Full size preview media with subtitle layout
Support open media files inside finder's open with features
Support multi-language convert
Support custom frequently use language for convert or translate