Add a persistent, book-scoped Character Library (new Characters section,
IndexedDB) that auto-fills from Character-sheet analysis with editable cards.
Enrich extraction with six narrative fields (backstory, relationships,
motivation, fears, mannerisms, voice/speech) plus the greyscale Good↔Evil
alignment bar, arc arrow, and 5-area Deep Analysis. Add ⋯ separators between
non-contiguous passages in Recast unknown, and harden dialogue attribution
against hallucination with same-language emotion tags.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Added a new 'Table View' button to the library sort bar.
- Implemented a CSS grid layout to display voice properties in a high-density table.
- Added sortable column headers (Name, Lang, Gender, Speed, dBFS, Length, Rating, Source, Seed, Note, Tags, Active).
- Aligned CSS grid to account for the bulk edit checkbox injection.
- Added drag-and-drop profile image support to the Inspector's large avatar.
- Ensured picture updates instantly synchronize across the List, Table, and Inspector views.
Read Aloud (new "Vorlesen" tab):
- PDF (real page render + overlay highlight) / TXT reader with live word
highlighting, voice + speed, per-sentence synthesis-state colours, zoom
(fit-width/height, two-page, ±), resume, and a server-side book library
(syncs across devices; per-unit MP3 audio fetched on demand).
Book -> multi-speaker audiobook:
- "Cast as audiobook" attributes dialogue to characters via the LLM
(guillemet/quote-style aware, turn-taking, recent-context), with a
deterministic speech-tag fallback. Editable preview, non-blocking live
casting panel, then auto-saved as a reopenable Script Rehearser play.
- Audiobook export: synthesise every cast line -> one MP3 per chapter.
Character sheets:
- LLM-extracted, self-filling RPG-style sheets (with page+quote sources)
in both Read Aloud and the Rehearser.
Also: MP3 storage + per-page/sentence export, voice-library "Precompute
embeddings" pre-warm, German "Vorlesen" i18n + flag language toggle,
large-PDF performance (lazy raster, buffer/canvas eviction, yielded parse),
and the Seed Finder changelog entry.
New: routes/reader.py, POST /api/attribute-dialogue, POST /api/character-sheets,
static/js/{reader,audiobook,character-sheets}.js, static/sections/s-reader.html.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Script Rehearser (new feature)
- New section s-rehearser.html + rehearser.js + nav/loader wiring
- Phase 1: paste/upload script (.txt), auto-detect characters from
'CHARACTER: dialog' or ALL-CAPS screenplay format
- Phase 2: assign a TTS voice per character, or mark 'I play this'
- Phase 3: step-through rehearsal — synthesizes other characters via TTS,
shows level-meter + oscilloscope for your own lines, records them from mic
- Phase 4: session summary with per-line audio playback + download
## Connect Apps
- Removed duplicate standalone MCP/speak/hotkey full-width cards
- Kept the integration-grid cards (they use the real server URL from JS)
- Added Global Hotkey Daemon as a proper integration card with snippet-hotkey
populated by integrations.js (uses proxyBase URL dynamically)
## About page
- GET /api/changelog endpoint reads CHANGELOG.md and returns it as text
- Collapsible 'Changelog' <details> card fetches and displays it lazily
## Try It Out
- Reorganised into three cards: Voice & backend / Text to synthesize / Generate
- Backend help panel moved below the voice row (not in the same flex row)
- Style instruction field gains a dynamic badge ('style-aware ✓' / 'weak style')
and a yellow warning when a non-style-aware backend is selected while the
field is filled — wired to both backend-select change and input events
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Loader:
- Post-init modules (engines, ai-backends, generation, conversation) now
load AFTER the skeleton is removed instead of before. The UI is visible
~500 ms sooner on average; those four modules load while the user is
already browsing Voices / Clone / Design.
- Removed the sttReady event approach that was triggering a duplicate
/api/stt-backends call; init.js already populates all STT selects once
on startup.
Skeleton:
- Replaced the card-grid placeholder with a two-column workbench skeleton
(voice list rows on the left + inspector placeholder on the right) that
matches the real My Voices layout.
Connect Apps:
- MCP Server, /speak REST endpoint, and Global hotkey daemon sections
moved from Settings → About to Connect Apps, where they belong.
- About page now has GitHub + Releases links instead.
Clone section:
- Added a hint note beneath the sample-text textarea reminding the user
to replace the placeholder name (Sam / Alex / Marco …) with their own.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Perceived startup speed:
- index.html: animated shimmer skeleton (header + toolbar + 8 voice cards)
visible immediately; fades out when loader.js finishes
- WaveSurfer (57KB) and MDI icon font (394KB woff2) now served from
static/vendor/ — removes 3 render-blocking external requests from <head>
- Flag-icons CSS loaded async (rel=preload onload trick) — non-blocking
loader.js:
- Fade out skeleton + remove from DOM (300ms transition)
- Reveal page-sections after JS finishes loading
Conversation playground:
- Qwen3 thinking mode fix: fall back to delta.reasoning_content when
delta.content is empty so think-only LLM turns produce visible output
- Better error message with /no-think hint when LLM returns empty
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Conversation Playground (new section):
- WhatsApp-style chat UI with user/assistant speech bubbles
- Click-to-record mic button using MediaRecorder API
- STT → LLM streaming → TTS pipeline via SSE (POST /api/conversation/turn)
- LLM tokens stream into assistant bubble in real time
- Audio auto-plays when TTS synthesises the reply
- Right-side stats panel: STT / LLM TTFT / LLM total / TTS / Total with bar chart
- Turn history list with per-turn total time and pass/fail indicator
- Configurable: STT backend, LLM URL + model, TTS backend + voice, system prompt
- Conversation history maintained across turns (last 20 messages sent to LLM)
- GET /api/conversation/llm-models proxies model list from any OpenAI-compatible LLM
XTTS v2 backend:
- Registers xtts as a first-class TTS backend (xtts_url setting, display name,
capabilities, health/voice discovery, OpenAI-compatible generation)
- Added XTTS URL field to Settings → Connections
- Use-as-TTS button now saves to xtts_url (not tts_url)
- Batch benchmark backend select now refreshes alongside perf/preview selectors
VibeVoice fix:
- Added /voices to _TTS_VOICE_ENDPOINTS so VibeVoice voices are discovered
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Rename "LLMs" section to "Engines" with brain icon
- Add three sub-pages (Language Models / Speech to Text / Text to Speech) following the same nav-tree pattern as Settings and My Voices
- Rewrite s-llms.html: three s-engines-page divs, docker container grids (dc-grid-tts, dc-grid-stt), VibeVoice card in TTS section, static cloud API cards per category
- Add navEnginesCat() and applyEnginesPage() to nav.js; engines tree open/close in showSection()
- Remove obsolete initLlmCatTabs IIFE; fix dc-refresh-btn from ID to class-based querySelectorAll
- Make integration cards in Connect Apps collapsible (collapsed by default) with favicon/icon prepended to h3
- Unify all Engines card grids to minmax(380px, 1fr) so local, docker, and cloud cards are the same width
- Add s-engines-page CSS (display:none / is-active:flex)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New s-performance section: dedicated Benchmark nav entry with run form,
per-session results table, RTF trend badge (faster/slower/stable), SVG
sparkline chart, and a History card backed by localStorage (last 50 sessions)
- Performance tab removed from Try It Out; element IDs unchanged so JS works
- renderIntegrationSnippets: adds Python MCP server + Claude Code .mcp.json
config snippets to the Connect Apps page (integration-card-wide styling)
- Save handler: persists all Captures settings fields (stt_language,
stt_preferred_backend, auto_refine, refine_model, refine_* toggles,
captures_default_voice) alongside existing settings
- CSS: integration-card-wide accent border, benchmark history rows, trend
badges, sparkline wrapper, bench-history-toolbar
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add initLlmsSection() IIFE to app.js: copy buttons, API key persistence with eye toggle
and saved badge, local service URL persistence, Connect/Disconnect toggle with server-side
probe via /api/probe-url (avoids CORS), card turns green on success / red on failure
- Substitute 0.0.0.0 → host.docker.internal before probing (0.0.0.0 not routable from Docker)
- Add /api/local-containers, /api/probe-url, start/stop/restart endpoints to server.py
- Rewrite AI Backends section into Local / Online API categories with Docker stack grid,
local service cards (LLM/STT/TTS) with icons and editable URL inputs, online cloud API cards
- Add bind mounts for static/ and server.py so changes take effect without image rebuild
- Add dc-grid, llm-local-grid CSS with uniform minmax(310px,1fr) card layout
- Fix VOICE_HOST_DIR default via .env so voice folders survive container recreation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Inspector:
- Skinny 2-row header: 72px avatar + name/ID row / subtitle row / note row
- Searchable flag picker (dblclick flag icon) — filtered by voice language, falls back to ALL_FLAGS
- Searchable language picker (dblclick lang code) — shows full language names
- Tag reuse: entered tags persist to localStorage as datalist suggestions
- Compact active toggle (32×18px), slim save button (12px/4px padding)
- Show/hide eye toggle and "✓ Key saved" badge on API key fields
AI Backends (s-llms.html + style.css):
- Full CSS design: pill tabs with active accent, animated section transitions
- Service cards: icon bubbles, tier badges (Free/Demo/Paid), stat chips, endpoint rows, model tags
- Highlighted recommended card with accent border
- Dark code blocks for local service snippets with copy feedback
- Show/hide password toggle and auto-appearing "✓ Key saved" badge per card
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New light UI: fixed 220px sidebar, single scrolling page, 8 named sections
- Static files split by concern: style.css, app.js, loader.js, nav.js
- Each page section is its own partial in static/sections/s-*.html
- loader.js fetches all section partials in parallel, then loads app.js and nav.js
- All original functionality, element IDs, and API endpoints preserved
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
