jiramaxx-recording 1.1.0

Optional meeting-recording + local transcription plugin for jiramaxx

jiramaxx-recording

Optional meeting-recording + local transcription plugin for jiramaxx.

This is a separate distribution from core jiramaxx. It is intended for environments where audio recording is permitted; corporate sites that disallow recording simply omit it from their package mirror, and core jiramaxx keeps working with no Record button or Recording tab.

Install

pip install jiramaxx-recording        # explicit
pip install jiramaxx[recording]       # convenience alias for the same thing

There is no separate command — the app is still launched with jiramaxx. Once this package is installed, core discovers it via the jiramaxx.plugins entry point and adds a Record button (main window) and a Recording tab (config).

Choosing / downloading the model

Open Config → Recording → Transcription:

• Model size — pick tiny.en / base.en (default) / small.en / medium.en / large-v3. Larger = more accurate but slower and a bigger download.
• Download / Prepare model — explicitly downloads the selected model from Hugging Face (with a confirmation prompt) and loads it, so recording starts instantly afterward. Nothing is downloaded automatically — only when you click this button, or when you confirm the prompt the first time you hit Record. If you never do either, nothing is ever fetched.
• Custom model path (optional) — point at a local CTranslate2 Whisper model directory. This overrides the size picker and runs fully offline (no download), e.g. for air-gapped installs.

When you click Record and the chosen model isn't downloaded yet, you're asked to confirm the download; recording does not start until it completes, so the download never competes with audio capture.

Offline / privacy

Transcription runs entirely on the local CPU via faster-whisper — no audio or text ever leaves the machine. The only network activity is the one-time, read-only download of the public Whisper weights described above; after that the cached model loads offline.

For a fully air-gapped install, set a Custom model path, or pre-fetch the default with scripts/fetch_model.py into jiramaxx_recording/models/base.en/ (loaded directly with no download).

Disabling via policy

Set JIRAMAXX_DISABLE_RECORDING=1 (or true/yes/on) in the environment to force-disable recording even when this package is installed. The Record button is disabled and the Recording tab shows a policy message.