jamiepine/voicebox v0.4.1

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A fast follow-up to 0.4.0 focused on making the new engines actually load in the production binary — plus generation cancellation, Linux system-audio capture, and the repo's first PR-time type check. Five first-time contributors shipped in this release.

0.4.0 introduced three new TTS engines, but the frozen PyInstaller binary tripped over several Python-ecosystem quirks that don't show up in the dev venv: transformers opening .py sources at runtime, scipy.stats._distn_infrastructure hitting a frozen-importer NameError, and chatterbox-multilingual failing to find its Chinese segmenter dictionary. This release patches all of those in one sweep.

Frozen-Binary Reliability (#438)

• Kokoro now bundles .py sources alongside .pyc via --collect-all kokoro so transformers' _can_set_attn_implementation regex scan can read them — previously FileNotFoundError: kokoro/modules.py killed Kokoro loading in production builds
• Chatterbox Multilingual now bundles spacy_pkuseg/dicts/default.pkl and the package's native .so extensions via --collect-all spacy_pkuseg — previously the Chinese word segmenter crashed with FileNotFoundError on first load
• scipy.stats._distn_infrastructure — new runtime hook source-patches the trailing del obj (which raises NameError under PyInstaller's frozen importer because the preceding list comprehension evaluates empty) to globals().pop('obj', None), unblocking librosa → scipy.signal → scipy.stats for every TTS engine that depends on librosa
• transformers.masking_utils — same runtime hook forces _is_torch_greater_or_equal_than_2_6 = False so the older sdpa_mask_older_torch path is selected; the 2.6+ path uses TransformGetItemToIndex(), a real torch._dynamo graph transform our permissive stub can't reproduce
• torch._dynamo — no-op stub replaces the real module before transformers imports it, preventing the torch._numpy._ufuncs import crash (NameError: name 'name' is not defined) that blocked Kokoro and every engine pulling in flex_attention
• .spec paths are now repo-relative instead of absolute, so the generated spec is portable across machines and CI

Generation

• Cancel queued or running generations (#444) — new /generate/{id}/cancel endpoint and a Stop button on the history row while generating. The serial queue now tracks per-ID state (queued / running / cancelled) so queued jobs are skipped before the worker picks them up and running jobs are .cancel()-ed mid-flight; run_generation catches CancelledError and marks the row failed with a "cancelled" error.
• Legacy data/ path prefix resolution (#440) — generations stored with the old data/ prefix under pre-0.4 installs now resolve correctly after the storage root moved, fixing 404s for historical audio.

Model Migration

• Migration dialog no longer hangs when the cache is empty (#439) — the backend now emits a completion SSE event even when zero models are moved.
• Storage-change flow surfaces a toast when there's nothing to migrate (#433) instead of proceeding with a no-op move and restarting the server.
• Deleting all generations from a voice profile now deletes the associated version files and DB rows too (#447) — previously orphaned versions accumulated in storage.

Platform

• Linux system audio capture (#457) — cpal's ALSA backend doesn't expose PulseAudio/PipeWire monitor sources by name, so the previous device-name search never matched and silently fell back to the microphone. Detection now uses pactl get-default-sink + pactl list short sources and routes via PULSE_SOURCE, with the name-based search retained as a fallback when pactl is absent.

Frontend CI

• First PR-time quality gate (#418) — new .github/workflows/ci.yml runs bun run typecheck + bun run build:web on every PR. Fixed pre-existing type issues that were being suppressed with @ts-expect-error, cleaned up a dep-array typo ([platform.metadata.isTauricheckOnMountcheckForUpdates]) in useAutoUpdater, and removed 100+ lines of dead ModelItem code from ModelManagement.tsx.
• Follow-up: widened apiClient.migrateModels() return type to include moved and errors so the storage-change handler typechecks against the real backend response (#470).

Docs

• Clarified in the Quick Start + README that paralinguistic tags ([laugh], [sigh]) only work with Chatterbox Turbo; other engines read them as literal text (#450).

New Contributors

• @Bortlesboat — generation cancellation (#444)
• @gaojulong — migration dialog hang fix (#439)
• @fuleinist — migration no-op toast (#433)
• @erionjuniordeandrade-a11y — frontend CI + type hardening (#418)
• @estefrac — Linux pactl system-audio capture (#457)