- Add sidecar management to backend (sidecar_manager.py)
- Add sidecar API router for browser mode (/api/sidecar/*)
- Add browser-api.js polyfill for running in Chrome/Edge
- Add "Open in Browser" button when audio access fails
- Update build scripts with new sidecar modules
- Add start-browser.sh for development browser mode
Browser mode allows users to open the app in their system browser
when Electron's audio access is blocked by security software.
The backend manages the sidecar process in browser mode (BROWSER_MODE=true).
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- Add robust model cache verification (check model.bin + config.json)
- Add new status messages: model_cached, incomplete_cache, model_error
- Forward model status events to frontend for better UI feedback
- Add clean_build_cache() to remove stale spec files before build
- Add --clean flag to PyInstaller commands
- Change sidecar from --onefile to --onedir for faster startup
- Add missing hidden imports: onnxruntime, wave, huggingface_hub.utils
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- Add backend/run_server.py entry point for embedded deployment
- Add backend/build.py PyInstaller script for backend packaging
- Modify config.py to support frozen executable paths
- Extend client/config.json with backend configuration section
- Add backend sidecar management in Electron main process
- Add Whisper model download progress reporting
- Update build-client.bat with --embedded-backend flag
- Update DEPLOYMENT.md with all-in-one deployment documentation
This enables packaging frontend and backend into a single executable
for simplified enterprise deployment. Backward compatible with
existing separate deployment mode (backend.embedded: false).
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