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PeaBox Speech Studio v2.0 - Local AI Speech Generation & Multi-Provider Voice Platform
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🎙️ PeaBox Speech Studio v2.0
PeaBox Speech Studio is a local-first AI speech platform that combines speech generation, transcription, subtitle creation and cloud speech services into a single application.
This release introduces local neural text-to-speech, cloud voice provider integrations, improved transcription workflows and a more production-ready installation process.
✨ What's New
🎤 Local Neural Speech Generation
Generate natural narration locally using Kokoro TTS.
Features:
- Local speech synthesis
- Multiple languages
- Multiple voices
- Adjustable speech speed
- WAV export
- No recurring usage costs
☁️ Cloud Speech Providers
Connect directly to leading speech platforms.
Supported providers:
- Microsoft Azure Speech
- Amazon Polly
- Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
Capabilities:
- Voice discovery
- Language filtering
- Cloud speech generation
- MP3 export
- Provider comparison
🔍 Dynamic Voice Discovery
Automatically discover available voices from connected providers.
View:
- Voice name
- Locale
- Language
- Sample rate
- Provider metadata
No hardcoded voice lists.
📝 AI Transcription
Powered by Faster-Whisper.
Supported formats:
- WAV
- MP3
- M4A
- FLAC
- OGG
- MP4
- MOV
- MKV
- WebM
Export formats:
- TXT
- SRT
Available models:
- Tiny
- Base
- Small
- Medium
- Large-v3
💰 Cost Estimation
Estimate provider costs before generating audio.
Supports:
- Azure Speech
- Amazon Polly
- Google Cloud TTS
View:
- Character count
- Estimated cloud cost
- Provider comparison
🔧 Improvements
Windows Compatibility
Improved Python environment management.
Features:
- Python 3.12 validation
- Automatic virtual environment creation
- Improved installation workflow
- Better package handling
Transcription Reliability
Fixed Windows temporary-file locking issues.
Improvements:
- Safe temporary-file handling
- Automatic cleanup retries
- Better transcription stability
Documentation
Added:
- Detailed README
- Installation Guide
- Troubleshooting Guide
- Cloud-provider setup instructions
📁 Included Features
✅ Local Neural TTS
✅ Cloud TTS Providers
✅ Faster-Whisper Transcription
✅ Subtitle Generation
✅ TXT Export
✅ SRT Export
✅ Provider Voice Discovery
✅ Cost Estimation
✅ Privacy-First Architecture
✅ Windows Support
✅ Linux Support
🔒 Privacy First
Local features run entirely on your machine.
Cloud providers are optional.
User API keys remain under user control.
No mandatory cloud dependency.
🛣️ Roadmap
v2.1
- Batch Generation
- Project History
- Voice Profiles
- Pronunciation Dictionary
v3.0
- PDF Narration
- DOCX Narration
- PPTX Narration
- Audiobook Chapters
v4.0
- Voice Cloning
- Speaker Diarization
- Translation
- Video Dubbing
v5.0
- Desktop Application
- Docker Deployment
- REST API
- Team Collaboration
⚙️ Requirements
Recommended:
- Python 3.12
- FFmpeg
- 8GB+ RAM
Platforms:
- Windows
- Linux
🙏 Thank You
Thank you for supporting PeaBox Speech Studio.
Feedback, issues and feature requests are welcome through GitHub Issues.
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Full Changelog: v1.0...v2.0.0