🚀 LettuceAI Android Release & Desktop Beta 2: Text-to-Speech, Character Creator, Reply Helper Sync

Hi everyone! 👋

This release brings LettuceAI to Android along with the second desktop beta update.
It introduces Text-to-Speech voices, reply generation assistance, encrypted device-to-device sync, enhanced accessibility features, and per-character voice playback controls.

These updates focus on expressiveness, comfort, and smoother roleplay workflows.

🌟 Highlights

✨ AI Character Creator

The AI Character Creator helps you build fully-formed characters through conversation. Instead of filling forms, you describe the character you have in mind, and the Creator guides you step-by-step.

• Conversational guided character creation
• Automatic field filling (name, traits, description, etc.)
• Optional starting scenes to define tone
• Attach avatars and reference material

You can stop at any time; everything remains editable in the manual editor.

🔊 Text-to-Speech Voices

Characters can now speak using natural-sounding generated voices. You can assign a voice per-character and optionally enable automatic playback for new replies.

• Device TTS: Uses your system’s built-in voice engine
• ElevenLabs: Natural voice synthesis with custom voice support
• Gemini TTS: Neural speech generation with custom voice support
• Create custom voices with style descriptions and reuse them across characters

Generated audio is cached locally to reduce repeated regenerations.

💭 Reply Helper

Reply Helper can generate a suggested reply for your current message, either starting from scratch or expanding the text you already wrote.

• Use my text as base: Improve or complete your draft
• Write something new: Generate a fresh reply
• Regenerate: Try multiple suggestions

🔄 Encrypted Device Sync

Sync lets you transfer your data securely between your own devices without accounts or cloud storage.

• Peer-to-peer encrypted transfer
• No servers or permanent connections
• Manual sync started when needed

💚 Accessibility Improvements

Accessibility options now include sound and haptic feedback for key chat events such as sending, successful replies, and errors.

• Per-event volume controls
• Optional haptic feedback with selectable intensity
• Lightweight and non-intrusive

🗣️ Character Voice Playback

You can now play voice audio for individual messages, or enable autoplay so your character always speaks when replying.

• Assign a default voice per character
• Optional autoplay
• Manual playback button per message

🎬 Scene Directions

Scenes now support private “direction” notes that are hidden from the chat UI and used only to guide model behavior during the opening context of a scene.

🛠️ General Improvements

• Improved character editing workflow
• Better consistency across Android and Desktop
• Internal cleanup and UI polish

🐛 Bug Fixes & Behaviour Improvements

• Reasoning now works correctly with the Google Gemini endpoint
• Fixed an issue where Dynamic Memory processing could cancel when switching pages
• Fixed an issue where characters could be duplicated unexpectedly
• Added a retry button to the embedding download screen
• Fixed Backup settings failing to load existing backups
• Redesigned the Edit Model page into a single-page layout
• Disabled reasoning controls for the Mistral endpoint
• Optimised entry animations in Settings
• Optimised Markdown rendering performance
• Added support for (...) and [...] as italic formatting shortcuts
• Added Scene Directions to help guide starting scene behaviour

Full Changelog: 1.0-beta.6.2...1.0.0