## ADDED Requirements

### Requirement: Edge Speech-to-Text
The Electron client SHALL perform speech-to-text conversion locally using faster-whisper int8 model.

#### Scenario: Successful transcription
- **WHEN** user records audio during a meeting
- **THEN** the audio SHALL be transcribed locally without network dependency

#### Scenario: Transcription on target hardware
- **WHEN** running on i5 processor with 8GB RAM
- **THEN** transcription SHALL complete within acceptable latency for real-time display

### Requirement: Traditional Chinese Output
The transcription engine SHALL output Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) text.

#### Scenario: Simplified to Traditional conversion
- **WHEN** whisper outputs Simplified Chinese characters
- **THEN** OpenCC SHALL convert output to Traditional Chinese

#### Scenario: Native Traditional Chinese
- **WHEN** whisper outputs Traditional Chinese directly
- **THEN** the text SHALL pass through unchanged

### Requirement: Real-time Display
The Electron client SHALL display transcription results in real-time.

#### Scenario: Streaming transcription
- **WHEN** user is recording
- **THEN** transcribed text SHALL appear in the left panel within seconds of speech

### Requirement: Python Sidecar
The transcription engine SHALL be packaged as a Python sidecar using PyInstaller.

#### Scenario: Sidecar startup
- **WHEN** Electron app launches
- **THEN** the Python sidecar containing faster-whisper and OpenCC SHALL be available

#### Scenario: Sidecar communication
- **WHEN** Electron sends audio data to sidecar
- **THEN** transcribed text SHALL be returned via IPC