jamiepine/voicebox v0.4.4

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Hotfix for a regression in 0.4.3 where generation and transcription could fail outright with "offline mode is enabled" even when the user was online.

Reliability

• Inference no longer fails with "offline mode is enabled" while online (#524, reverts the inference-path guards from #503). 0.4.3 wrapped every inference body (generate, transcribe, create_voice_clone_prompt) with a process-wide HF_HUB_OFFLINE flip to stop lazy HuggingFace lookups from hanging when the network drops mid-inference (#462). That flag also blocks legitimate metadata calls (e.g. HfApi().model_info for revision resolution) so online users started seeing generation fail outright. Inference now runs with the process's default HF state. Load-time offline guards — which weren't the source of the regression — stay in place.

Known caveat: users generating without an internet connection may see brief pauses during inference while HuggingFace metadata lookups time out (typically ~30s, after which the library recovers). A proper offline-mode toggle is planned for 0.4.5.