Add Kokoro-82M as a new TTS engine — 82M params, CPU realtime, 8 languages,
Apache 2.0. Unlike cloning engines, Kokoro uses pre-built voice styles, which
required a new profile type system to support non-cloning engines cleanly.
Kokoro engine:
- New kokoro_backend.py implementing TTSBackend protocol
- 50 built-in voices across en/es/fr/hi/it/pt/ja/zh
- KPipeline API with language-aware G2P routing via misaki
- PyInstaller bundling for misaki, language_tags, espeakng_loader, en_core_web_sm
Voice profile type system:
- New voice_type column: 'cloned' | 'preset' | 'designed' (future)
- Preset profiles store engine + voice ID instead of audio samples
- default_engine field on profiles — auto-selects engine on profile pick
- Create Voice dialog: toggle between 'Clone from audio' and 'Built-in voice'
- Edit dialog shows preset voice info instead of sample list for preset profiles
- Engine selector locks to preset engine when preset profile is selected
- Profile grid filters by engine — shows Kokoro voices when Kokoro selected
- Custom empty state when no preset profiles exist for selected engine
Bug fixes:
- Fix relative audio paths in DB causing 404s in production builds
- config.set_data_dir() now resolves to absolute paths
- Startup migration converts existing relative paths to absolute
Also updates PROJECT_STATUS.md and tts-engines.mdx developer guide.
Upgrade CUDA toolkit from 12.6 (cu126) to 12.8 (cu128) for proper
RTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPU support. Users with RTX 5070/5080/5090
were reporting CUDA detection failures with cu126.
Also fix the GPU Acceleration settings panel where the 'Switch to CPU
Backend' button was unreachable — it was inside a conditional block
that required !isCurrentlyCuda, making it impossible to switch back
to CPU once running on CUDA.
Closes#315
Replace --collect-submodules + --collect-data with --collect-all for
qwen_tts. The qwen_tts runtime expects physical .py source files
(e.g. modeling_qwen3_tts.py) under _MEIPASS, which only --collect-all
provides. This is the same pattern used for inflect/typeguard.
Fixes#212
- Wrap download/verify/extract in try/finally so .download-*.tmp is
always deleted, even on mid-download or extraction failures
- Fix justfile build-server-cuda to use sh.voicebox.app (production path)
- Fix is_nvidia_file() to match NVIDIA DLLs in _internal/torch/lib/
(PyInstaller 6.18 + torch 2.10 no longer uses nvidia/ subdirectories)
- Remove deprecated split_binary.py (both archives are under 2GB)
- Update torch_compat range to >=2.6.0,<2.11.0
- Update build docs for new dual-archive packaging flow
Switch CUDA builds from PyInstaller --onefile to --onedir and split the
output into two separately versioned archives:
1. Server core (~200-400MB) — versioned with the app, redownloaded on
every app update
2. CUDA libs (~2GB) — versioned independently (cu126-v1), only
redownloaded when the CUDA toolkit or torch version changes
This eliminates the ~2.4GB full redownload on every version bump.
After initial setup, most app updates only need ~200-400MB.
Closes#297
Enrich tts-engines.mdx with patterns discovered during TADA integration:
- Phase 0.2: new greps for @torch.jit.script, torchaudio.load, gated repos
- Phase 3.4: model naming inconsistency warning
- Phase 5.2: TADA shim failure added to lessons table
- Phase 6: four new workaround sections (gated repos, torchcodec,
torch.jit.script, toxic dependency shim pattern)
- Checklist: four new items matching the new scan patterns
- Remove TADA from upcoming engines (now shipped)
Add CUDA_LIBS_ADDON.md exploring --onedir split to avoid 2.4GB
redownloads on every version bump.
Remove @torch.jit.script from the DAC shim's snake() function —
TorchScript calls inspect.getsource() which fails in PyInstaller
binaries (no .py source files).
Update all user-facing docs: 4 → 5 TTS engines, add TADA row to
every engine comparison table, mark TADA as Shipped in the upcoming
engines list, update architecture diagrams and tech stack tables.
Replace the monkey-patch on AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained (which broke
the classmethod descriptor and caused 'Tokenizer not loaded' errors
when loading Qwen after TADA) with two targeted config patches:
- Set AlignerConfig.tokenizer_name to the local ungated tokenizer path
- Pre-load TadaConfig, inject tokenizer_name, pass config= to from_pretrained
No global state is modified; other engines are unaffected.
torchaudio 2.10+ switched its default audio loading backend to
torchcodec, which isn't installed. Replace torchaudio.load() with
soundfile.read() in create_voice_prompt(). TADA's internal use of
torchaudio.functional.resample() is unaffected (pure PyTorch math,
no torchcodec dependency).
TADA hardcodes 'meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B' as its tokenizer source in
both the Aligner and TadaForCausalLM.from_pretrained(). That repo is
gated and requires accepting Meta's license on HuggingFace.
Monkey-patch AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained during model loading to
redirect Llama tokenizer requests to 'unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B', an
ungated mirror with identical tokenizer files. The patch is scoped
to model loading only and restored immediately after.
The real descript-audio-codec package pulls in descript-audiotools,
which transitively requires onnx, tensorboard, protobuf, matplotlib,
pystoi, and other heavy dependencies. onnx fails to build from source
on macOS due to CMake version incompatibility.
TADA only uses Snake1d (a 7-line PyTorch module) from DAC. This commit
adds a shim in backend/utils/dac_shim.py that registers fake dac.*
modules in sys.modules with just the Snake1d class, completely
eliminating the DAC/audiotools dependency chain.
Integrates HumeAI's TADA (Text-Acoustic Dual Alignment) speech-language
model as a new TTS engine. TADA uses a novel 1:1 token-audio alignment
that produces coherent speech over long sequences (700s+).
Two model variants:
- tada-1b: English-only, ~4GB, built on Llama 3.2 1B
- tada-3b-ml: 10 languages, ~8GB, built on Llama 3.2 3B
Backend uses the Encoder for voice prompt encoding with caching, and
TadaForCausalLM with flow-matching diffusion for generation. Supports
bf16 inference on CUDA, forces CPU on macOS (MPS compatibility).
Installed with --no-deps due to torch>=2.7 pin conflict; descript-audio-codec
and torchaudio added as explicit sub-dependencies.
build.rs now generates voicebox.icns via sips + iconutil alongside the
existing actool Assets.car compilation. On non-macOS, empty stub files
are created so Tauri's resource bundler doesn't fail on missing paths.
Move audio validation and saving to thread pool so librosa/ffmpeg decoding
doesn't block the async event loop. Combine validate + load into a single
pass to avoid decoding the file twice. Add 50 MB upload limit and chunked
reads to prevent unbounded memory allocation.
Closes#278
cu121 only ships kernels up to SM 9.0 (Ada Lovelace). RTX 50-series
(Blackwell, SM 12.0) and RTX 6000 Pro need cu126 which includes SM 12.0
support while remaining backward compatible with older GPUs.
Closes#289
Wrap SSE generators with BrokenPipeError/ConnectionResetError handling
so client disconnects during generation status polling, download progress,
or audio streaming don't produce unhandled Errno 32 errors.
Closes#248
Use refetchQueries instead of invalidateQueries for more reliable history
refresh. Add history refetch to SSE onerror handler so dropped connections
don't leave the list stale. Reset page to 0 in HistoryTable when a pending
generation completes.
Closes#231
Switch WaveSurfer from MediaElement to WebAudio backend to prevent
WKWebView deadlocks that were freezing the entire Tauri app during
audio playback.
Reuse a single WaveSurfer instance across track changes instead of
destroying and recreating on every URL change, which was exhausting
the browser's AudioContext pool.
Other improvements:
- spacebar play/pause with capture phase to prevent history item activation
- drag-to-seek on waveform with silent scrub to avoid WebAudio popping
- slider always mounted to prevent layout shift during track transitions
- play button fills icon, accent bg when playing, loop button accent bg when active
- fix AudioBars animation getting stuck by keying on mode
- remove focus ring on history items
- sync slider position on pause and during seek
- remove title text from player bar
- thicker cursor (3px)
- Rename Server tab to Settings with horizontal sub-tab navigation (General, Generation, GPU, Logs, Changelog)
- All sub-tabs are proper routes under /settings/* with /server redirect for backwards compat
- General: connection settings, link cards (docs + discord), API reference card, app updates
- Generation: auto-chunking, crossfade, normalize, autoplay as SettingRow components
- GPU: info card with platform-aware icons (Apple logo for MPS), CUDA management, explainer text
- Logs: real-time server log viewer piped from Tauri sidecar via event system (Tauri-only)
- Changelog: parsed from CHANGELOG.md at build time via Vite virtual module plugin
- New reusable SettingRow/SettingSection components for consistent settings layout
- New Toggle (switch) UI component replacing checkboxes in settings
- Toast viewport now offsets when audio player is open
- Sidebar stays active on settings sub-routes (fuzzy matching)
- Backfill CHANGELOG.md from all 17 GitHub releases (was stale at v0.1.0)
- Add draft-release-notes and release-bump agent skills
- Extract release notes from CHANGELOG.md in release CI instead of hardcoded placeholder
- Remove stale PATCH_NOTES.md, mlx-test/, move PROJECT_STATUS to docs/notes
- Reorganize API reference docs from unknown/ to named groups
- Update openapi.json
- Backfill CHANGELOG.md from all 17 GitHub releases (was stale at v0.1.0)
- Add draft-release-notes and release-bump agent skills
- Remove stale PATCH_NOTES.md, mlx-test/, move PROJECT_STATUS to docs/notes
- Minor voicebox-server.spec cleanup
Replace verbose startup messages with a clean summary:
- App version, Python version, OS/arch
- Database path (fix None display), data directory
- Profile and generation counts
- Backend, GPU, model cache path
- Clean up stale loading_model status on startup
- Remove noisy progress manager log line
- Use DB COUNT query instead of list length for take-N label to avoid
TOCTOU race between list_versions and create_version
- Add focus:bg-muted to SelectTrigger for keyboard focus visibility
Critical:
- Remove dead backend.utils.validation PyInstaller hidden import
- Fix story_items table rebuild to preserve track/trim/version columns
- Guard cache migration against same source/destination path
- Fix regeneration audio overwrite (use random uuid suffix per take)
Major:
- Engine selector: validate language on Qwen switch, clear stale modelSize
- Sync language validation regex between profile create and generate (22 langs)
- Guard CUDA download against duplicate concurrent requests
- Only set model_size for engines that support multiple sizes
- Fix 404 swallowed by generic except in history export
- Validate audio_path before FileResponse in export-audio
- Transcription: stream uploads in 1MB chunks, use robust cache check,
call complete_download() on Whisper download success
- Set clean version as default when effects chain validation fails
- Return explicit error when Windows port occupied by non-voicebox process
Backend:
- Generation service reports 'loading_model' status only when model
is not yet in memory, then 'generating' once inference starts
- Migrate hf_offline_patch.py from print() to logging module
- Update ADDING_TTS_ENGINES.md for post-refactor file paths
Frontend:
- HistoryTable shows 'Loading model...' vs 'Generating...' based on step
- FloatingGenerateBox: replace instruct toggle + inline effects editor
with an effects preset dropdown (third dropdown after language and engine)
- Instruct UI removed for now (form field preserved for future models)
- Remove focus ring from Select component globally
Replace the outdated backend README (473 lines of stale API docs and
pre-refactor file tree) with a concise architecture document covering
module structure, request flow, backend selection, API domain overview,
and development commands.
Delete REFACTOR_PLAN.md -- all phases are complete.
Update STYLE_GUIDE.md to remove refactor plan references and replace
the verbose target layout with the current actual structure.
On Windows, Voicebox shelled out to netstat.exe on startup to check for
existing server processes. On systems with corrupted DLLs, netstat fails
with 0xc0000142, causing an infinite loading loop.
Replace with:
- TcpStream::connect_timeout() for port-in-use checks (pure Rust)
- PowerShell Get-NetTCPConnection for port-to-PID lookup (built-in cmdlet)
- tasklist for process name verification (unchanged)
Closes#277
Split the 2,578-line main.py (90 routes) into 12 domain-specific router
modules under routes/. main.py is now a 45-line entry point.
New structure:
- app.py: FastAPI instance, CORS, startup/shutdown, safe_content_disposition
- routes/: health, profiles, channels, generations, history, transcription,
stories, effects, audio, models, tasks, cuda
- services/cuda.py: moved from cuda_download.py
Also includes Phase 5 database/ package (from parallel agent):
- database/__init__.py re-exports all symbols for backward compat
- database/models.py, session.py, migrations.py, seed.py
All 90 routes verified registered and app imports cleanly.
- collect-all piper_phonemize to bundle espeak-ng-data for LuxTTS phonemization
- Set ESPEAK_DATA_PATH in frozen builds so the C library finds bundled data
- collect-all perth to bundle pretrained watermark model for Chatterbox
- Add multiprocessing.freeze_support() to fix resource_tracker subprocess crash
- Force tqdm disable=False in TrackedTqdm so byte progress works in prod
(huggingface_hub disables tqdm based on logger level, which prevents
self.n from updating — our progress tracking needs the counter even
though we don't render to terminal)
- Harden devnull redirect to test writability, not just None check
- Add full traceback logging to all backend error handlers
- Add chatterbox/luxtts/zipvoice hidden imports and metadata to spec
Replace next: { revalidate: 600 } with cache: 'no-store' on GitHub
API fetches so new releases show up within 5 minutes (in-memory cache
only, no Next.js/Vercel cache layer on top).
James Pine