Swords

Introduction

Swords, a Windows desktop app GUI for Whisper, transcribe and translate audio offline on your personal computer.

Swords is a powerful and lightweight Windows GUI application that brings OpenAI Whisper to your desktop. Whether you're a student, professional, content creator, podcaster, researcher, or simply need high-quality speech-to-text transcription, Swords makes it effortless to transcribe audio and video content quickly and accurately.

Changelog

October 18, 2025: Swords v1.3.0 has been released.

Version Update Notes

1.3.0

1.Add batch-processing feature: Multiple audio or video files can be selected as input. After the system processes a file, it automatically starts processing the next file automatically.

2.Add auto-saving feature: After the system transcribes a file, it automatically saves the output content to the folder where the input file is located.

3.Upgrade the built-in PyTorch in the CPU-Only version to 2.9.0.

4.Fix the discovered errors.

August 28, 2025: Swords v1.2.0 has been released.

Version Update Notes

1.2.0

1.Add the feature of setting "Advanced options"(i.e. beam_size, best_of, compression_ratio_threshold, logprob_threshold, no_speech_threshold, condition_on_previous_text).

2.Upgrade the built-in PyTorch to 2.8.0+cu126.

3.Fix discovered errors.

August 18, 2025: Swords v1.1.1 has been released.

Version Update Notes

1.1.1

1.Upgrade the built-in PyTorch in the CPU-Only version to 2.8.0.

2.Fix discovered errors.

August 2, 2025: Swords v1.1.0 has been released. Version Update Notes 1.1.0 1.Fix the error: In some cases, Swords did not fully utilize the capabilities of CUDA GPUs. 2.Release the CPU-Only version, suitable for scenarios where CUDA GPU is unavailable. 3.Fix discovered errors.

July 15, 2025: Swords v1.0.3 has been released. Version Update Notes 1.0.3 1.Fix the error: When CUDA GPUs are available, Swords immediately exits. 2.Add the feature of setting the 'Carry initial prompt' parameter. 3.Fix discovered errors.

July 5, 2025: Swords v1.0.2 has been released. Version Update Notes 1.0.2 1.Fix the error: When you click the "Save as SRT File" button, the result you get is still a Text file. 2.Built-in OpenAI Whisper version: 20250625.

June 2, 2025: Swords v1.0.1 has been released.