Scriberr

Scriberr 0.4.0 Release

This PR merges the release/0.4.0 branch into main, bringing several major enhancements and stability improvements to the core application.

🎙️ Speaker Diarization

• Added full speaker diarization support using PyAnnote’s speaker-diarization-3.1 model
• Enhanced word-level speaker labeling with improved accuracy
• Implemented HuggingFace token integration for model access
• Built-in fallback mechanisms when diarization encounters issues
• User-friendly speaker label editing in the UI

🔐 Authentication & Environment Variables

• Improved authentication system with token refresh and proper expiry handling
• Better runtime environment variable management
• Streamlined setup process with API key validation
• Enhanced error handling and user feedback during configuration

🖥️ UI Enhancements

• Updated AudioPlayer component with improved controls and visualization
• Better markdown rendering for summaries
• Support for “thinking” sections in LLM responses
• Enhanced mobile responsiveness across all components
• Improved file management interface

🐳 Docker & Deployment Improvements

• Added optimized CUDA 12.8 support for GPU acceleration
• Renamed and reorganized Docker workflow files for clarity
• Improved hardware detection and dependency installation
• Enhanced GitHub workflow automation for releases and versioning
• Better ARM64 architecture support

💾 Other Improvements

• Enhanced batch size configuration for Whisper model
• Improved GPU memory management for more efficient transcription
• Added fallback for GPUs without efficient float16 support
• Enhanced title generation with improved system prompts
• Better error logging throughout the application

Testing

This release has undergone extensive testing in the following areas:

• Speaker diarization with various audio files and speaker counts
• Authentication flows and environment configuration
• UI rendering on different devices and screen sizes
• Docker deployment on both CPU and GPU environments
• Performance optimization for large audio files

🤖 Assisted By [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code

Shortened Changelog

• feat: enhance Docker setup and transcription features by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/47
• Optimize Docker setup and improve transcription handling by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/49
• GPU Support, Docker Updates, Tailwindcss revert, Tailwindcss fix after revert, Readme update by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/52
• Update GitHub Actions workflow for Docker image builds by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/59
• Update GPU configuration, Docker setup, Fixed Arm64 build error by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/60
• Improvement/update GitHub workflows by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/64
• feat: Update Dockerfiles and move dependency installations to deployment by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/63
• Docker update workflow updates by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/65
• Rename Docker workflow files to reflect CUDA context by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/67
• Feature: Handle thinking field support and fix markdown rendering by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/72
• Revert “Feature: Handle thinking field support and fix markdown rendering” by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/73
• fix: improve authentication with token refresh and expiry handling by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/70
• feat: enhance audio quality for playback by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/71
• Fix runtime environment handling and speaker diarization by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/75
• feat: Add batch size configuration for Whisper model and improve diarization logging by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/76
• fix: Update batch size handling for transcription and improve documentation on GPU memory issues by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/77
• Fix/diarization process by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/79
• Merging of nightly to 0.4.0 by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/80
• Fix/diarization process by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/81
• fix: Diarization fix by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/82
• feat: Update GitHub workflows for automated releases and versioning by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/88
• fix: Add fallback from float16 to float32 for GPUs without efficient float16 support by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/89
• fix: Improve CUDA memory management for diarization by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/90
• fix: UI enhancements by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/91
• Update release/0.4.0 with latest nightly changes by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/92
• Release version 0.4.0 to main by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/93
• Merge nightly branch into release/0.4.0 by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/94
• Release version 0.4.0 to main by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/95
• Update README.md by @SpirusNox in https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/pull/97

Full Changelog: https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/compare/0.3.0…v0.4.0