WPM (words per minute) is derived from the benchmark audio duration and
sentence word count, revealing how fast a voice speaks — independent of
GPU speed. 130–180 wpm is comfortable for audiobooks. Column is sortable.
Info (ⓘ) icons on Speed and WPM headers explain both metrics on hover.
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Speed column now displays 1.32× instead of 1.3× for better precision.
Sorting by Speed ranks by the RTF multiplier (faster = higher ×) rather
than raw elapsed time, so the sentence length no longer skews the ranking.
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Voices cloned from a Script Rehearsal now show the script title in the
SOURCE column without requiring manual entry. `_displaySource()` parses
the note field (`Rehearser · <title> · <character> — …`) and returns the
title segment as the source. Explicit `origin` values still take priority.
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- Add Source input to voice inspector panel (saves to origin in meta.json)
- Auto-detect fish-audio voices via tag — SOURCE column now shows
"fish-audio" for tagged voices even without an explicit origin field
- Bulk "Set source" action in the multi-select toolbar
- Source cell in table reflects the live-displayed value and updates
immediately when changed via the inspector
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- Casting completion auto-saves to Rehearser IndexedDB (same format
as script rehearsals). Manual speaker corrections in the cast view
debounce-save after 1.5s.
- rehId tracked across session (stored in localStorage draft) so
updates go to the same record instead of creating duplicates.
- Voice assignments made in Script Rehearser survive an auto-update:
only script text and emotions are overwritten; voice/instruct/soul
are merged from the existing record.
- "Edit in Rehearser" button in the completed cast footer opens the
saved record directly in Script Rehearser, ready for voice casting.
- Expose rehDbGetById + rehLoadRecord globally from rehearser.js.
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Saves accumulated segments after every chunk. On page refresh or crash,
reopening Cast as Audiobook for the same document restores the session
automatically — shows a banner with completion % and save age.
Manual speaker reassignments in the cast view are also autosaved so
review corrections survive a refresh. Draft clears when the script is
saved to Script Rehearsals or a fresh Recast All is triggered.
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Click any gap divider to reveal the hidden segments between two Unknown
passages inline — shows speaker + text so context is clear before
making an assignment. Displays line count ("42 lines hidden — click
to expand") so users know what they are opening.
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- Pulsing blue dot on the Read Aloud nav item while casting is active
- Navigating away and returning restores the cast panel automatically
- Reassigning a segment's speaker decrements the old count so the
Characters Found panel stays in sync; speakers at 0 disappear
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- Conversation: adjustable noise gate slider (RMS threshold + 300 ms
minimum burst duration) prevents short noise spikes from triggering
STT; level meter shows gate position as a blue marker
- Conversation stats panel now collapsible (chevron button) to free
chat width; floating expand button restores it; state persists
- Read Aloud: text search input in PDF toolbar (Enter = next hit,
Shift+Enter = previous, Esc = clear)
- Sidebar: tooltip now works for all item types including sub-items
that had no .nav-label span (text extracted by stripping icon/badge)
- Sidebar active section indicator added (.nav-tree-item.active was
previously unstyled — active section now has bg + right accent bar)
- Casting audiobook: prompt instructs LLM to handle ?« / !« endings
and unclosed » at passage end as dialogue; deterministic fallback
also handles unclosed opening quote
Bumps to v1.12.2.
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Hovering the collapsed 56 px rail no longer expands the whole sidebar,
which was pushing the main content left and right. Each nav item now
shows a small floating tooltip (JS-positioned fixed div) next to its
icon on hover — layout stays completely stable.
Bumps to v1.12.1.
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- 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.
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- Conversation Playground: STT/LLM/TTS/System prompt now full-width stacked.
- Fix conversation mic upload on ARM64: decode recording in-browser to
16 kHz mono WAV, bypassing server ffmpeg webm/EBML parser (with fallback).
- Document v1.10.0 (unified Library + character tags) and v1.10.1.
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Restructure the sidebar into Voices / Speak / Setup groups and fuse the
Read Aloud and Script Rehearser features into one workspace:
- New combined Library section (Books · Theater Plays · Characters/Cast)
with cross-links (Rehearse a book, Read Aloud a play).
- Character tags like voice tags: one record, many productions, reusable
across books/scripts; seeded with origin book, editable in the editor.
- Shared cast resolution: opening a production fills empty cast slots from
the character roster (matched by book OR tag); voice choices written back
on save. Productions joined by normalized title (prodKey).
- Tags nav group for voices (distinct tags + counts, Cloned/Designed/Fav).
- Fold standalone Characters into Library; Read Aloud now a single entry.
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Longer mixed DE/EN phrase covering dotted numbers, compound nouns,
umlauts, special characters, English technical vocabulary, time
formats and prose — reveals more of a voice's character per seed.
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- voice-inspector: move `curGender` const before its first use — it was
declared at line 86 but referenced at line 61, causing a ReferenceError
(temporal dead zone) that silently aborted selectVoice() on every click
- Calc dB, Precompute, Batch Seeds now filter to checked voices when a
bulk selection is active, matching Benchmark's existing behaviour
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- Auto-scroll to bottom is now gated on the user being within 80px of
the bottom. Scrolling up to review or edit a line freezes the feed
in place — new rows are still added, but the viewport doesn't move.
- Row-trimming is likewise suppressed while the user is scrolled up,
so old lines stay visible as long as they're being read/edited.
Trim limit raised from 80 → 600 rows so almost nothing is evicted.
- A floating "↓ Live" pill button appears at the bottom of the feed
whenever the user has scrolled up. Clicking it returns to the live
bottom and re-enables auto-scroll.
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Casting view improvements:
- "LLM Reading…" row now shows a preview of the passage being processed.
A chevron button expands it to a full scrollable view of the passage
text (up to 260px), so you can follow what the LLM is reading live.
- Page-break dividers ("Page N") appear in the casting feed whenever the
source PDF page changes, giving a real-time view of page boundaries.
Bug fix:
- Page numbers in the Rehearser script were 0-indexed (PDF-internal) so
the first page break showed "Page 1" for what was PDF page 2, etc.
Now always emits 1-indexed page numbers (\f${page+1}).
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When a PDF audiobook is cast and saved to the Rehearser, page breaks now
carry the source PDF page number. In the Stage view each divider renders
as "— Page N —" instead of the generic "— Page break —".
Implementation:
- audiobook.js: `audiobookBuildScript()` encodes the page number in the
form-feed line (\fN instead of bare \f) at each page boundary.
- rehearser-parse.js: `parseScript()` now matches `line.startsWith('\f')`
and extracts the trailing page number into `line.page`.
- rehearser.js: `buildScriptPage()` renders "— Page N —" when `line.page`
is set; `toScript()` round-trips the number back (\fN) so it survives
save/reload; `importPDFScript()` also encodes page numbers (\f<pageIdx+1>)
when importing screenplay PDFs directly.
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Exposes the `speed` parameter (0.5–2.0) on the TTS `/v1/audio/speech`
request so audio is generated at the target tempo natively via the
faster-qwen3-tts backend rather than post-processing.
- Backend: `/api/tts-preview` now extracts and forwards a `speed`
override (clamped 0.1–4.0) through the same extra-params mechanism
already used for seed/temperature; backends that reject it fall back
cleanly via `_post_tts_with_fallback`.
- Try it out: "Native Speed" number input (0.5–2, step 0.05) added to
the text card; value persists in localStorage per browser; passed as
`extra` through `createTtsAudioSource` and `generateChunkedTts`.
- Read aloud: "Native Speed" control added to the generation controls
row alongside seed/temperature; included in `readerGenParams()` and
saved/restored with library documents (each book tracks its own speed).
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audiobookScopeText now records PDF page boundaries as character offsets in the
scope text; audiobookBuildScript realigns each segment against the source and
emits \f page-break markers at the nearest boundary. Saved/opened cast scripts
keep the book's pagination instead of collapsing to one flow.
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- Character sheets: stop sending the dead localhost:11434 default; fall back to
the server's configured llm_url so extraction uses the same working LLM.
- Audiobook casting: hoist highlightText to module scope so the "Review & cast"
manual-correction preview renders its segment rows again.
- Stage: unify narrator/dialog font size, add A-/A+ play text-size control
(scales A4 + paginated views), and make the cast chip list collapsible.
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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.
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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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JS files are cache-busted by app version (?v=1.3.0), so browsers that
served stale v1.2.0 scripts will now fetch the updated voice-clone.js,
stt.js, style.css, and nav.js.
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Conversation playground:
- Live speech preview: MediaRecorder sends accumulated audio to
/api/transcribe-bytes every 2.5 s; interim Whisper result shown in
the text input field while recording. Web Speech API tried first as
a faster path when available (HTTPS/localhost).
- VAD auto-stop: AudioContext AnalyserNode measures RMS every frame;
auto-stops after 1.5 s silence with a visible countdown. Auto-stop
toggle to revert to click-to-stop.
- Hands-free mode: mic auto-restarts after the agent finishes speaking
via audio.ended event + generation-counter cancellation. Hands-free
toggle (on by default) to disable.
Navigation:
- Persist active section and sub-page in localStorage; hard-reload
returns to the same page instead of always jumping to My Voices.
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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
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config/ and logs/ are now host directories visible on the filesystem.
- docker-compose.yml: ./config → /home/app/.config/tts-voice-creator:rw
./logs → /logs:rw
Named volume tts-voice-creator-clone-and-design-2 removed.
- portainer-stack.yml: same change with absolute host paths.
- server.py: RotatingFileHandler writes INFO+ to /logs/app.log
(maxBytes=5MB, backupCount=3). Falls back gracefully if /logs
is not writable.
- .gitignore: track config/ and logs/ dirs via .gitkeep but exclude
settings.json, *.log and backups from version control.
Benefits:
- Settings and logs are human-readable on the host at any time
- Survives docker-compose down -v (was lost with named volume)
- Easy backup: cp -r config/ logs/ to any destination
- Can edit settings.json directly if needed
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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
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_AUDIO_EXTS lives in core.voice, not core.audio. The dead alias
'_VOICE_AUDIO_EXTS' was never used anywhere in the file.
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UploadFile | None = File(None) with from __future__ import annotations
caused FastAPI to still treat audio as required when omitted.
Changed to Optional[UploadFile] = None (no File() wrapper) so the
field is genuinely optional for text-input turns.
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- Move mic-blocked warning into conv-chat-window (prepend) so it scrolls
with the chat instead of pushing the input bar off-screen
- Remove min-height:400px from conv-chat-window; give conv-chat-panel a
viewport-relative height so the input bar is always visible at the bottom
- loader.js: append ?v=<timestamp> to section fetches to bust browser cache
(was serving stale s-conversation.html after updates)
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scripts/release.py:
- --patch/--minor/--major flag bumps VERSION file
- Renames [Unreleased] → [x.y.z] — date in CHANGELOG.md
- Inserts fresh [Unreleased] section + correct compare links
- Commits + creates annotated git tag
- --dry-run flag for preview without writes
- Prints git push + GitHub Releases URL on completion
scripts/hooks/pre-commit:
- Warns (exit 0, non-blocking) when source files are staged but
CHANGELOG.md or VERSION are not staged
- Already installed in .git/hooks/
scripts/install-hooks.sh:
- One-liner to install hooks after a fresh clone
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- Add VERSION file (1.1.0) at repo root
- core/constants.py: expose __version__ read from VERSION file
- routes/admin.py: GET /api/version endpoint returns {version}
- Settings → About: display "v1.1.0" next to app name via /api/version fetch
- CHANGELOG.md: full rewrite following Keep a Changelog + Semantic Versioning
- [Unreleased] staging section at top
- [1.1.0] 2026-05-29 — security, perf, refactor, UX changes from this session
- [1.0.0] 2026-05-28 — all pre-session features documented
- Compare links at bottom pointing to GitHub
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Frontend:
- Add pill-shaped text input + send button (→) to the left of the mic button
- Enter key or → click sends text directly without recording audio
- Input is disabled while a turn is processing; cleared on submit
- Welcome message updated to mention both input methods
- New CSS: .conv-input-bar, .conv-text-row, .conv-text-inp, .conv-send-btn,
.conv-divider (visual separator between text and mic sections)
Backend:
- /api/conversation/turn: audio is now optional (UploadFile | None)
- New text form field — when provided, STT step is skipped and text is
used as the transcript directly; SSE emits transcript event with stt_ms=null
- Raises 400 if neither audio nor text is supplied
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Engine cards (all TTS + STT, dynamic Docker stack + static):
- Container name field now always visible on every card (was hidden for
absent/not-installed containers)
- Connect button moved out of URL row into a dedicated dc-controls-row;
restyled as solid blue primary CTA
- Connect now toggles to Disconnect (green) when reachable, persists state
- On successful connect, URL is auto-applied to Settings so the backend
appears in TTS/STT dropdowns immediately — no separate "Use as" click needed
- "Use as TTS/STT" button updated: larger, teal "apply" style, tooltip,
gains .active highlight once applied, right-aligned as the trailing action
- Unified control order on every card: [Connect/Disconnect] [Stop|Start|Restart] [Use as →]
- initStaticDockerManagement rebuilt to use the same dc-controls-row layout
as dynamic cards, moving .llm-local-ping from URL row at init time
Conversation section:
- Fix chrome://flags URL being white-on-grey inside the mic-blocked warning
box (global code{background:var(--panel)} overrode the inherited white text)
- Inline-styled the <code> element with a dark translucent background
- Added a Copy button so users can copy the URL without selecting invisible text
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