jamiepine/voicebox v0.4.2

voicebox v0.4.2

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This release localizes the entire app. English, Simplified Chinese (zh-CN), Traditional Chinese (zh-TW), and Japanese (ja) are wired up end-to-end across every tab, modal, dialog, and toast — 559 translation keys per locale, parity verified. Plus a batch of reliability fixes: offline-mode now actually stays offline, Chatterbox accepts reference samples it used to reject, MLX Qwen 0.6B points at the right repo, and macOS system audio survives backgrounding.

Internationalization (#508)

• i18next foundation with an in-app language switcher that re-renders the tree on change — lazy-loaded components were holding stale strings without an explicit key-bump on the React root.
• Four locales at full coverage: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese. No partial/English-fallback surfaces.
• Every user-visible surface translated: Stories (list, content editor, dialogs, toasts), Effects (list, detail, chain editor, built-in preset names), Voices (table, search, inspector, Create/Edit modal, audio sample panels), Audio Channels (list, dialogs, device picker), history + story dropdown menus, ProfileCard / ProfileList / HistoryTable, and the unsupported-model note.
• Relative dates localize via date-fns locale objects (3 days ago → 3 天前 / 3 日前) — Intl.RelativeTimeFormat doesn't produce the phrasing we use in the history table.
• Dev-build version suffix (v0.4.2 (dev) / (开发版) / (開發版) / (開発版)) is now locale-aware.
• 559 translation keys across all four locales.

Reliability

• HF_HUB_OFFLINE now guards every inference path (#503) — some engines were still attempting a HuggingFace metadata roundtrip on first load when offline mode was enabled, causing hangs on airgapped or flaky networks.
• Chatterbox reference samples are preprocessed instead of rejected (#502) — samples outside the expected sample rate or channel layout are resampled to match, rather than failing with an opaque error.
• MLX Qwen 0.6B repo path fixed (#501) — now points at the published mlx-community repo so the model actually downloads on Apple Silicon.
• macOS system audio survives backgrounding (#486, closes #41) — WKWebView was tearing down the audio session when the app lost focus, silently killing system-audio capture.
• MLX backend miniaudio dependency pinned (#506) — mlx_audio.stt needs it at runtime and nothing else transitively pulled it in, so --no-deps installs were breaking on first use.

Landing / Docs

• New /download page (#487) — no more dumping first-time visitors onto the GitHub releases list. The API example snippet on the landing page also got an accuracy pass.
• Download redirects work behind reverse proxies (#498) — uses the public origin instead of localhost when resolving platform-specific installer URLs.
• MDX docs audited against the multi-engine backend (#484) — stale single-engine assumptions removed.
• Three more tutorials + mobile navbar / hero CTA fixes (#483).

Linux

• Still not shipping. The re-enable attempt (#488) landed on main but CI still hangs in the tauri-action bundler step on ubuntu-22.04 — no output for 25+ minutes after rpm bundling, even with createUpdaterArtifacts: false and --bundles deb,rpm. The matrix entry is disabled again for 0.4.2; the ubuntu-specific setup steps stay in the workflow so re-enabling is a one-line change once we identify the hang. Next release will take another pass.

New Contributors

• @shekharyv — download redirects behind reverse proxies (#498)