New iOS-first companion (Expo SDK 54 + NativeWind v4) with three tabs:
Captures (the hero — floating gold mic, live mic-meter waveform,
expand-row playback), Generate (profile picker + speak + autoplay +
recent), and Voices (searchable profile list).
Pairing (V0): backend mints a one-time token, mobile scans/pastes the
voicebox:// URL, server returns a long-lived bearer it stores only as a
SHA-256 hash. Bearer-or-loopback auth applied to every user-data router
so binding 0.0.0.0 doesn't leak existing endpoints. Loopback callers
(the desktop app) keep their friction-free access.
Desktop Settings → Mobile pane: live host picker (LAN / Tailscale auto-
detected via the App-bundle binary path on macOS), QR rendering,
5-minute expiry countdown, copyable URL fallback, paired-device list
with revoke. Auto-closes when a new device pairs.
just dev now binds the backend to 0.0.0.0 so paired phones can reach
it — and just setup-python pins mlx-audio==0.4.1 + mlx-lm so fresh
Apple Silicon worktrees get a working STT path on first install.
Each story item now carries a volume column (linear gain, default 1.0,
clamped 0.0–2.0 server-side). New PUT /stories/{}/items/{}/volume route
+ useUpdateStoryItemVolume hook + a Volume2 icon in the clip-edit
toolbar that opens a popover with a 0–200% slider. Local slider state
drives the visual during a drag; the persist fires once on
onValueCommit, mirroring the generation-page slider pattern.
Web Audio playback inserts a per-clip GainNode between source and
master so volume changes apply live without re-decoding the buffer
(source -> clipGain -> masterGain -> destination). Server-side
mixdown in export multiplies the trimmed clip by its volume before
summing into the timeline. Split + duplicate carry the volume forward
to the new clips so trimming a faded section keeps the level you set.
Migration adds the volume column with default 1.0 so existing rows
read as full volume.
- Collapse intent tri-state (respond/rewrite/compose) to `personality: bool` on /generate, /speak, and voicebox.speak. Drop respond entirely; keep compose as a standalone button via /profiles/{id}/compose. Remove /rewrite, /respond, and /speak profile endpoints.
- FloatingGenerateBox: Wand2 persona toggle + Dices compose button appear when the selected profile has a personality. ProfileCard badges Wand2 alongside the effects Sparkles.
- MCP bindings: default_intent column → default_personality: bool. Migration drops the legacy column.
- i18n: en / ja / zh-CN / zh-TW translation files filled out and wired through the capture, server, and profile UI.
```ts
voicebox.speak({
text: "Deploy complete.",
profile: "Morgan",
personality: true, // rewrite through the profile's personality LLM
});
```
Ships the Capture release end to end. Global-hotkey dictation with
synthetic paste into the focused app on macOS and Windows, an on-screen
pill across recording / transcribing / refining, customizable push-to-
talk and toggle chords, and an accessibility-permission prompt scoped to
Settings → Captures with inline re-check feedback.
Voice profiles gain optional personalities that power compose / rewrite /
respond actions via a local Qwen3 LLM — shared with refinement, so there
is one local LLM in the app, not two.
Refinement hardened with deterministic Whisper-loop collapse before the
LLM sees the transcript, per-capture flag snapshots for re-runs, and a
ten-transcript evaluation harness across every bundled refinement size.
Version bump 0.4.5 → 0.5.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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.
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.
James Pine