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
- 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)
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.
chatterbox-tts 0.1.6 pins numpy<1.26 and torch==2.6 which are
incompatible with Python 3.12+. Install with --no-deps and list
its sub-dependencies explicitly in requirements.txt.
Also removes HFProgressTracker from chatterbox backend to avoid
'generator didn't stop after throw()' errors from tqdm patching.
Adds 'just' as the recommended dev tool: 'just setup' for one-time
install, 'just dev' to run backend + frontend in one terminal.
Updates CONTRIBUTING.md to document just as the primary setup method.
James Pine