- new Record/Library tabs (like the mobile app); the recording UI is
unchanged inside the Record tab
- Library tab: recording list (date, duration, language, device), detail
view with summary (scrollable, re-triggerable), agenda checklist with
coverage marks, and the full timestamped transcript; Library URL field
(defaults to MEETREC_LIBRARY_URL)
- sync: auto-refresh every 10 s — recordings made on the phone appear on
the desktop while the tab is open; pending summaries update to done
automatically and re-fetch
- shared library client in meetrec.py: library_list/library_get_file/
library_trigger_summary
- validated headlessly (offscreen) against the live server: 6 recordings
from phone and desktop listed, 68-min meeting detail with 1333-char
summary and ~100k-char transcript
- final_transcribe gains optional speaker labeling and library upload:
diarize_url runs a second tinydiarize pass and merges the turn times
onto the quality transcript as 'Sprecher 1/2:' labels (diarize_merge,
port of the Android Diarization object; failures keep the transcript
unlabeled); library_url uploads the WAV + txt/srt/json bundle with the
agenda — the server then generates summary + agenda coverage
- WhisperServerEngine supports diarize mode (tinydiarize form field +
speaker_turn_next parsing); multipart builder handles multiple files
- CLI: --agenda-file, --diarize-url, --library-url (env vars
MEETREC_DIARIZE_URL / MEETREC_LIBRARY_URL)
- GUI: Library URL + Diarize URL fields and an agenda editor; upload
progress lands in the status bar
- validated end-to-end against the live servers: recording -> large-v3
transcription -> txt/srt/json -> library upload (all four files,
device=desktop) -> server summary/agenda pipeline ran (honest error
for a noise-only test recording)
- WhisperServerEngine posts multipart/form-data to POST /inference
(verbose_json) with the same transcribe() contract as the other
engines, so live and final passes work unchanged; stdlib-only
multipart builder; HTTP and connection errors surface clean messages
- CLI: --engine whisper-server + --server-url (or MEETREC_SERVER_URL)
- GUI: engine dropdown gains whisper-server; model/device/compute grey
out (the server owns the model), new Server URL field
- model lives server-side, beam size is a server-start setting in
whisper.cpp v1.9.3 (documented); verbose_json reports language names
(german) rather than ISO codes
- validated against the live R9700 server over Tailscale: array input,
native-rate file input (server-side resample), full final_transcribe
pipeline, and unreachable-server handling
- Recorder queries default_samplerate and streams/WAVs at that rate
instead of forcing 16 kHz (helps devices that don't support it
natively and keeps recordings at full fidelity)
- new resample_16k() linear resampler: the live rolling window is
converted to Whisper's 16 kHz before being handed to the engines
- snapshot() now returns (16 kHz audio, absolute start time in s)
- final pass unchanged: faster-whisper (PyAV) and whisper.cpp
(miniaudio) resample native-rate WAVs themselves
- GUI status shows the active rate; README updated
Validated with real 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz inputs: WAV headers match the
device rate, live-window resampling is length- and spectrum-correct.
- meetrec.py: engine layer with a common transcribe() contract;
WhisperCppEngine shells out to whisper-cli, GGML + Silero VAD models
auto-download to ~/.cache/meetrec; faster-whisper import now lazy;
new --engine CLI option
- meetrec_gui.py: Engine dropdown; Device/Compute greyed out for
whisper-cpp; model reload keyed on (engine, model, device, compute)
- install.sh: --whisper-cpp builds whisper.cpp with -DWHISPER_VULKAN=ON,
installs whisper-cli into the prefix and wires WHISPER_CPP_BIN via a
generated whisper-cpp.env; build failures degrade to a warning
- launchers source whisper-cpp.env; README documents engines
- Recorder.stop() is now idempotent (GUI close path called it twice)
- meetrec.py: CLI recorder with live rolling transcript (faster-whisper)
- meetrec_gui.py: PySide6 GUI reusing the CLI's recording/transcription
logic, with model/device/compute selection and live transcript
- install.sh: local install into ~/.local (venv, deps, launchers,
desktop entry), with --model/--no-model/--uninstall
- bin/meetrec, bin/meetrec-cli: launchers
- share/applications/meetrec.desktop: XDG desktop entry
- README.md, requirements.txt, .gitignore
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