debpalash/VoiceStudio v0.5.9-beta.2

v0.5.9-beta.2 — VoiceStudio

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Highlights

• Windows setup retries a stuck Python download from a mirror, and cancelling it no longer crashes the app
• OmniVoice GGUF does voice design, non-verbal tags like [laughter] and a decode-steps slider
• Stories and Audiobook stay open when the window recovers from a blank screen, and Restart to update works again
• Other local apps such as AIRI get the exact setting they need to use the API
• Dubbing keeps each cloned voice's own recording, and a crashed dub picks up from its finished segments

Windows setup is sturdier. If the Python download stalls on GitHub, setup now tries the mirror once by itself (Auto-detect region) and says so in the setup log. Cancelling or retrying a download no longer ends in "A JavaScript error occurred in the main process".

Testing wanted: first-run setup on Windows over slow or restricted networks; OmniVoice GGUF voice design and tags on Vulkan and CPU; Restart to update from v0.5.9-beta.1 on macOS; and quitting mid-dub on OmniVoice or CosyVoice, then generating again.

Thanks: @RerankerGuo (MOSS-TTS-Nano, #4078) for code; @snazzybean (#4080, #4081, with tested patches) and @rockziepromax (#4063) for reports; and everyone on Discord who sent setup screenshots and logs.

Upgrading: Install over your existing app, or take the in-app update on the Beta channel; voices, projects and settings are kept.

Changed

• Retired the unreachable legacy shared UI and the guard tests that held it, repointing the live-behaviour guards to the renderer, and dropped 12 unused npm packages (#4095)
• Smaller install: removed unused leftover images and old helper code from the app source (#4087)
• Projects grid view stays smooth with thousands of items by drawing only the cards in view (#4079)
• Long Projects, dub project and Transcribe history lists now render only the rows on screen, so they stay fast with thousands of items (#4074)
• Idle CPU: a hidden or minimised window no longer runs polling timers or elapsed-time clocks, and they refresh once when it is shown again (#4073)
• Removed unused renderer files and 477 unused translation strings, and locale:check now fails on an English key no code uses (#4047)
• Removed more unused legacy shared components, utilities and API helpers from the old shared UI folder (#4045)
• Local-model folder saves no longer unload the engine when the stored folder did not change (#4043)
• Removed more unused legacy settings, gallery and engine screens from the old shared UI folder (#4042)
• Idle polling is relaxed: the backend health probe slows when steady, cloud-sync polling pauses while the window is hidden, and the Windows parent watcher polls less often (#4041)
• Removed more unused legacy dubbing screens and hooks from the old shared UI folder (#4040)
• Release notes now open with one Download table listing every desktop and phone download with its signing, followed by the Highlights (#4037)
• Removed about 25,000 lines of unused legacy interface code, two unused font packages and the always-skipped weekly evals job; the app itself is unchanged (#2603, #4032)

Added

• A dub interrupted by a crash or restart now picks up from its finished segments instead of starting over (#4088)
• omnivoice-gguf now supports voice design, non-verbal tags and the decode-steps slider (#4084) — thanks @snazzybean!
• Cebuano is now a dub translation target (#4058, #4072) — thanks @onparr-24!
• Home shows a What's new link, winter pixel snow, a Christmas-week Santa, two rows of contributor portraits, and an easter egg that hides the credits until the next update after you visit three contributor profiles (#4070)
• Voice Cloning has a generation queue: takes started while one is rendering wait their turn and run one after another — thanks @ItzSudhan! (#4064)
• Audiobooks and Stories have a New project button that starts an empty draft without touching saved projects (#4055)

Fixed

• Windows installer process checks skip custom PowerShell profiles, and source installs use shorter build paths to avoid MSVC linker failures (#4099)
• Restarting to install an update keeps update status available while the local engine shuts down, avoiding missing-handler errors (#4098)
• Automatic blank-renderer recovery keeps the open workspace instead of returning Stories or Audiobook to Home (#4097)
• Dubbing keeps the saved recording for cloned and designed voices with style instructions, so each segment uses the selected speaker's reference (#4093)
• Setup on Auto-detect now retries a stalled Python download (cpython-… (download)) once from the other source, GitHub or its mirror, instead of stalling again (#4085)
• A refused cross-site API request now names its origin and gives the exact OMNIVOICE_ALLOWED_ORIGINS line to add, so other local apps such as AIRI can be connected (#4083)
• Setup no longer crashes with "Cannot set property code" when a runtime download or check is cancelled on Windows (#4082)
• MOSS-TTS-Nano speaks again on a fresh one-click install: the transformers 5 shim no longer breaks model loads in its pinned transformers 4 environment (#4063, #4078) — thanks @RerankerGuo, and @rockziepromax for the report!
• OmniVoice GGUF falls back to the CPU when the GPU backend crashes, for example Vulkan on a GTX 1080 (#4050, #4072) — thanks @MeinLive!
• Full dubs no longer fail when translation fills segments with free-text directions like "slow"; unsupported ones are dropped for that segment (#4054, #4072) — thanks @user555gtb!
• Audiobook MP3 exports play and download again instead of returning 404 (#4071, #4072) — thanks @dimfk001git!
• Colab: setup cells show the failing command's output, the security-floor check judges the Mako copy Python imports, and the web UI loads through the new *.prod.r.colab.dev proxy — thanks @hkarmoush! (#4069)
• Turning on LAN sharing no longer crashes the backend with an Internal Server Error — thanks @blutuxyz! (#4059)
• The OmniVoice GGUF engine finds its bundled runtime again in installed apps instead of reporting it missing — thanks @b84330808! (#4053)
• When the operating system times out starting the engine (spawn ETIMEDOUT, seen on macOS), VoiceStudio retries twice and then says to restart the computer (#4039)
• Settings → Updates lists only your channel's releases, and Beta suggests switching to Stable when a newer stable is out (#4038)
• SSML [spell] keeps flag, ZWJ-joined and skin-tone emoji whole instead of splitting them (#4020) — thanks @kevin9327!

CI

• The iPhone smoke test waits for typed text to reach the editor instead of reading it once, removing a CI flake (#4100)
• MOSS compatibility tests keep checking the active Transformers version after another test restores imported modules (#4096)
• The iPhone UI smoke test keeps its slow-inventory case loading for the whole test, so a slow simulator no longer fails it (#4076)
• Docker's web build no longer fails the unused-key check when only electron/ is copied, and the iPhone CI job allows for a native-runtime cache miss (#4052)
• Removed unused scripts, the old Tauri MSI tooling and leftover Turborepo ignore lines (#4046)
• Accessibility smoke timeouts now name the requests still pending, so a flaky CI failure points at its cause (#4036)

Contributors

New since v0.5.9-beta.1: @debpalash, @RerankerGuo, @b84330808, @blutuxyz, @hkarmoush, @ItzSudhan

Everyone who contributed since v0.5.8: @debpalash, @ItzSudhan, @velixio, @b84330808, @blutuxyz, @kevin9327, @RerankerGuo, @hkarmoush