feat(gui): add Language dropdown to Advanced settings panel#16
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Whisper's auto-detect on sparse / quiet audio (long opening silences, short initial utterances) is unreliable and can mis-classify English as ja/zh/ko, producing pages of CJK hallucinations interspersed with the correctly-transcribed English fragments. A real Blink dev-sync recorded on 2026-05-05 was rendered useless this way: the meeting was English but the .txt/.srt/.json/.summary.md/.pdf came out in Japanese hallucinations. Letting the user set the meeting language up-front via the GUI avoids the failure mode without forcing them to drop to the CLI. Adds a fourth row to the Advanced expander with a Language combobox. Values cover the alignment-models registry (en/de/fr/es/tr/fa) plus common Whisper-supported languages (it/pt/nl/ja/zh/ko/ar/ru) and the 'auto' default. Selection is written back into self._transcribe_kwargs on change, so the next recording's transcription picks it up. The CLI --language plumbing (already in place since PR #4) is unchanged; this PR only surfaces it in the GUI.
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Patch release containing PR #16 only. Surfaces meeting-language choice in the GUI to mitigate Whisper's auto-detect failure mode on sparse / quiet audio (English meetings transcribed as ja/zh hallucinations). No API or behavior change for CLI users; --language already existed.
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Summary
Whisper's auto-detect on sparse / quiet audio (long opening silences, short initial utterances) is unreliable and can mis-classify English as
ja/zh/ko, producing pages of CJK hallucinations interspersed with correctly-transcribed English fragments.A real Blink dev-sync recorded on 2026-05-05 was rendered useless this way: the meeting was English but the
.txt/.srt/.json/.summary.md/.pdfartifacts all came out in Japanese hallucinations like:Letting the user set the meeting language up-front via the GUI avoids the failure mode without forcing them to drop to the CLI.
Changes
auto(default) plusen,de,fr,es,tr,fa,it,pt,nl,ja,zh,ko,ar,ru(alignment-models registry plus common Whisper languages).self._transcribe_kwargs["language"]immediately so the next recording's transcription picks it up.--languageplumbing (in place since PR Add support for Apple Silicon and PyTorch device configuration #4) is unchanged; this PR only surfaces it in the GUI.Tests
test_launch_passes_explicit_languageintests/test_gui.py.test_launch_defaults_pass_none_throughextended to assertlanguage=='auto'is the default.Repair workflow for affected sessions
The 2026-05-05 session this PR was motivated by has been repaired manually with
--language en --mixdown monofollowed byapply_labels(...).Followups (separate PRs)
chore(sync): rebase pull and push-only-when-ahead.fix(label): handle sensitive condenser mics in YOU detection.