Version history

Release notes

Track the evolution of Qevoxyl's privacy-first capabilities.

v2.0.2
Latest release September 2026 · Build 20260903.190244

A complete local transcription workspace

  • New desktop interface — responsive light and dark workspaces with full-width page layouts.
  • Branded audio recorder with live input level, elapsed time, and microphone selection.
  • Stage-aware processing: Ready, Running, and Transcript appear only when relevant.
  • Live queue and checkpoints — sequential batch processing with pause, cancel, and resume.
  • Transcript workspace: waveform playback, timestamped and full-text editing, find and replace, undo/redo, uncertainty review.
  • Non-destructive versions — Original, Cleaned, English, and Bilingual.
  • Model manager from Tiny to Large-v3 with download state, hardware guidance, and disk usage.
  • In-app history and logs with 20, 50, or 100 items per page.
  • Expanded exports — TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON, DOCX, and PDF with branding and watermarking.

Reliability and packaging

  • Hardened worker IPC so native engine diagnostics cannot corrupt transcription messages.
  • Bundled the matching Python OpenSSL runtime to prevent frozen-app DLL failures.
  • Added a unique build number to Settings › About and diagnostic reports.
  • Ships as a single per-user Windows installer with a Start-menu shortcut.
v1.5.0
Previous release February 2026

Core functionality and UX

  • Offline translation — translate non-English audio to English text directly.
  • Setup wizard — first-run guide for themes, models, and paths.
  • Benchmark dashboard — CPU, RAM, and disk health in real time.

Customization and AI

  • Custom vocabulary — supply an initial prompt to improve accuracy for jargon.
  • Noise reduction — a dedicated denoise processor for noisy audio.

Pro features

  • Batch processing through a threaded worker queue.
  • Real-time streaming subtitles while recording.
  • Interactive transcript — click a segment to jump to that moment.
  • Experimental speaker diarization.
v1.3.0
Quality update 2025

Quality and stability

  • Reset / new session (Ctrl+N) cancels active work and clears the UI.
  • Session guard prevents stale background threads from updating the UI.
  • Transcript results are editable by default.
  • Appearance, model, and TTS settings persist in settings.json.
  • FFmpeg hardening with a local fallback copy.
v1.2.0
Core integration 2025

Core integration

  • Explorer right-click “Transcribe with Qevoxyl” for .wav and .mp3.
  • Stable PyInstaller spec bundling Whisper assets.
  • StdIO guard for console-less builds.
  • Persistent per-user data paths and logs.