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+## [1.3.0] — 2026-05-31
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+### Added
+- **Live mic monitor in Clone a Voice** — level-meter and scrolling oscilloscope waveform in the Microphone card. "Check level" / "Stop monitor" buttons, mic gain slider. Recording uses raw mic constraints (no echo-cancel / AGC).
+- **STT engine picker in Clone → Transcript** — pick any configured STT backend when auto-transcribing, bypassing an unavailable Whisper.
+- **Better sample texts** — all 8 languages rewritten to ~38 words / ~15 s, phonetically rich, proper Unicode diacritics.
+
+### Fixed
+- **Empty "Read aloud" field** — sample text now reliably populates on load and when navigating to the Clone section.
+- **Recording quality** — `MediaRecorder` requests 256 kbps in Clone and STT→TTS.
+- **OGG file import** — explicit extension list in `accept=`.
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 ## [1.2.0] — 2026-05-29
 
 ### Added
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-1.2.0
+1.3.0