diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 14217d62..e9c1c39e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,17 @@ The format is loosely based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/).
 Versions track the desktop app (`tauri.conf.json` + `frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.toml`).
 The bundled TTS model package (`pyproject.toml`) is versioned independently.
 
+## [0.3.4] — 2026-06-03
+
+### Fixed
+- **Transcription on Windows + NVIDIA failed with `Could not locate
+  cudnn_ops_infer64_8.dll`.** WhisperX/faster-whisper need cuDNN 8 (via
+  CTranslate2); when the side-loaded `cudnn8_compat` libs are missing, the
+  **PyTorch Whisper** backend (Settings → Models) now works as a drop-in
+  fallback — it builds its own transformers pipeline on PyTorch's cuDNN-9
+  stack, with no CTranslate2/cuDNN-8 dependency and no
+  `OMNIVOICE_PRELOAD_TTS_ASR=1` required. (#255)
+
 ## [0.3.3] — 2026-06-03
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/backend/core/version.py b/backend/core/version.py
index 339b153c..d0379d92 100644
--- a/backend/core/version.py
+++ b/backend/core/version.py
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ from importlib.metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version
 try:
     APP_VERSION = version("omnivoice")
 except PackageNotFoundError:  # non-installed source checkout
-    APP_VERSION = "0.3.3"
+    APP_VERSION = "0.3.4"
diff --git a/frontend/package.json b/frontend/package.json
index 2aaf6288..c2d635b1 100644
--- a/frontend/package.json
+++ b/frontend/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "omnivoice-studio",
   "private": true,
-  "version": "0.3.3",
+  "version": "0.3.4",
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "vite",
diff --git a/frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.lock b/frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.lock
index 70efffaf..72a45941 100644
--- a/frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.lock
+++ b/frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.lock
@@ -2878,7 +2878,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "omnivoice-studio"
-version = "0.3.3"
+version = "0.3.4"
 dependencies = [
  "dirs-next",
  "enigo",
diff --git a/frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.toml b/frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
index 59a2ed78..5f89dd57 100644
--- a/frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
+++ b/frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "omnivoice-studio"
-version = "0.3.3"
+version = "0.3.4"
 description = "OmniVoice Studio – AI voice cloning & dubbing desktop app"
 authors = ["Debpalash"]
 license = "AGPL-3.0"
diff --git a/frontend/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json b/frontend/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
index ea529a81..e44cd545 100644
--- a/frontend/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
+++ b/frontend/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$schema": "../node_modules/@tauri-apps/cli/config.schema.json",
   "productName": "OmniVoice Studio",
-  "version": "0.3.3",
+  "version": "0.3.4",
   "identifier": "com.debpalash.omnivoice-studio",
   "build": {
     "frontendDist": "../dist",
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 228ca5c7..a94c7fa1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "omnivoice"
-version = "0.3.3"
+version = "0.3.4"
 description = "OmniVoice: Towards Omnilingual Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Diffusion Language Models"
 readme = "README.md"
 # Source-available under FSL-1.1-ALv2 (see LICENSE); each release converts to
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 532dfe4c..f6b23f21 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -3058,7 +3058,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "omnivoice"
-version = "0.3.3"
+version = "0.3.4"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "accelerate" },