CoreWorxLab/CAAL v1.6.0 on GitHub

OpenAI-Compatible & OpenRouter Providers

This release adds two new LLM providers, restructures the settings UI around the voice pipeline architecture, and fixes Apple Silicon deployment.

OpenAI-compatible: Connect to any server exposing the OpenAI API — LM Studio, vLLM, LocalAI, text-generation-inference, and others. Configurable base URL with optional API key.
OpenRouter: Access 200+ models (GPT-4, Claude, Llama, Mistral, etc.) through a single API key. Searchable model dropdown for easy selection.
Both providers support streaming and tool calling

Settings panel reorganized into 5 tabs: Agent, Prompt, Voice Pipeline, AI Provider, Integrations
STT decoupled from LLM — speech recognition (Speaches or Groq Whisper) is now an independent choice, no longer auto-coupled to the LLM provider
Voice Pipeline tab groups STT + TTS together, reflecting the actual audio flow
AI Provider tab combines provider selection with LLM parameters (temperature, context size, max turns)
Setup wizard expanded from 3 to 4 steps: STT → LLM → TTS → Integrations
Restart prompt when changing providers — notifies that the agent needs a session restart

Speaches container added to docker-compose.apple.yaml for Piper TTS and faster-whisper STT
PIPER_URL environment variable decouples Piper TTS from the STT service URL
SyncOpenAITTS wrapper bypasses httpx async context issues in LiveKit's forked subprocesses
Conditional Piper auto-switch — only switches from Kokoro to Piper for non-English when a Piper service is actually available
WebRTC port range fixed — livekit.yaml and compose files now agree on 51000-51100 (previously mismatched)

Test endpoints for OpenAI-compatible (/setup/test-openai-compatible) and OpenRouter (/setup/test-openrouter)
Model discovery — tests return available models for dropdown population
URL validation on settings save for all URL fields

English, French, and Italian translations updated with new pipeline/provider keys
Groq API key sharing noted contextually when both STT and LLM use Groq

OpenRouterProvider inherits from OpenAICompatibleProvider (DRY — 76 lines vs 227)
OpenRouter includes attribution headers (X-Title: CAAL Voice Assistant)
.planning/ directory excluded via .gitignore

Thanks to @mmaudet for this contribution!

No action required for existing users — your Ollama/Groq setup continues to work unchanged
STT provider defaults to Speaches (same as before)
New providers are opt-in via Settings > AI Provider

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0