- Sidebar collapses to a 56px icon rail; hovering flies the full menu out as
an overlay (icons + titles/nested items). Language picker moved to Settings.
- Unify settings collapsibles to the app's standard card-collapse style:
Conversation, Read Aloud (drag-&-drop now inside), Try It Out, Casting panel.
- Read Aloud: reordered (settings → toolbar → document → transport/synth) and
the document fits the viewport height so controls below stay visible; remove
the redundant My Books card (lives in Library → Books).
- Conversation: stacked full-width config, fills viewport height; fix
intermittent webm decode in hands-free mode (recorder restarts cleanly,
in-browser WAV encode); barge-in via Live agent.
- Fix casting feed overflow that pushed the sidebar off-screen.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
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## 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>
Previously: container names and dynamic card URL overrides only
written to localStorage — lost when accessing from a different
browser or after clearing browser data.
Now:
- engine_container_names added as persisted settings key (dict)
- All container name inputs tagged data-cn-key for loadSettings() lookup
- loadSettings() restores container names + dynamic URLs from server
- settings.js exposes _saveEngineContainerNames() and
_saveEngineLocalUrls() globally so engines.js / ai-backends.js
can call them on every input event
- Static cards (ai-backends.js initStaticDockerManagement): reads
saved name from engine_container_names first, localStorage fallback
- Dynamic Docker stack cards (engines.js): same priority for both
URL and container name; both write to server on change
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>