OmniVoice Studio v0.3.7

✨ Stable release built from main. A stabilization pass that clears the
wave of issues reported on the 0.3.6 line — across voice design, dubbing,
transcription, install, and the Linux/web UI — and lands two more opt-in
cloning engines. The throughline: non-English correctness and cross-platform
playback — cloned and designed voices now hold their language end-to-end, and
audio plays inline in Linux/Android browsers, not just macOS.

🌍 Non-English correctness

• 🗣️ Voices no longer drift to English / the wrong language — profile + request
  language is threaded through both the single-shot and longform paths, and text
  is NFC-normalized before duration estimation (fail-before/pass-after tested)
  by @debpalash in #565

🔊 Cross-platform audio & UI

• ▶️ Audio playback on Linux/Android browsers — IANA-canonical audio/wav /
  audio/flac MIME + gesture-driven AudioContext unlock, so the play button
  works outside macOS by @paoloantinori in #511
• 🐧 Generate / Settings / Clone buttons are pressable on Linux — the shell now
  fills the window on WebKitGTK instead of leaving a black band that pushed the
  CTAs off-screen by @debpalash in #558, #519
• 🪟 Settings tabs fill the panel instead of a stunted box in a void, and the
  Appearance strings now route through i18n by @debpalash in #507
• 🎬 Windows: renders play in-app, not in an uncloseable black window
  by @debpalash in #538

✨ Engines & voices

• 🧩 Two opt-in heavyweight TTS engines — MOSS-TTS-v1.5 (8B) + dots.tts (2B) —
  zero-shot cloning in isolated subprocess venvs (no change to the default
  install or its lockfile) by @debpalash in #531
• 🎭 "Save design as profile" no longer poisons the profile with
  [object Object] (which then 400'd every generation); a migration heals
  already-saved profiles by @debpalash in #556
• ⏩ Stories: the global reading-speed slider now applies to preview + stem
  export, not just the full render by @debpalash in #509

🛠️ Reliability & install

• 🩹 Profile / persona / consent endpoints stop 500'ing on
  no such column: consent_audio_path — the schema self-heals missing additive
  columns on startup by @debpalash in #557
• 📦 Engine "Install" button works — uv pip install targets the running
  interpreter instead of a venv it couldn't find by @debpalash in #559
• 🎙️ Transcription survives GPUs without efficient float16 — both CTranslate2
  ASR backends fall back float16 → int8 instead of "no segments"
  by @debpalash in #561
• 📚 Audiobook import no longer 500's (AudiobookPlan.chapter_count) across
  .txt / .md / .epub / .pdf by @debpalash in #544
• 🌐 Actionable video-download errors + a relocated backend venv self-heals
  (No module named 'encodings') by @debpalash in #562
• 🔢 Version is single-sourced from frontend/package.json so a build can't
  call itself the wrong version again; the frozen backend now reports its real
  version (no more 0.3.5 fallback), fixing the blank About → Version
  by @debpalash in #503, #501
• 🔁 Updater Preview channel tracks main again (nightly rebuild) with
  prerelease + Intel-Mac parity guards by @debpalash in #500
• 💛 Donate goal bar shows real progress ($10 / $200) instead of fabricated
  numbers by @debpalash in #513

💡 Also carries the v0.3.6 "Can't reach the local backend" startup-crash
fixes (pkg_resources, scalar_fastapi, exit-106 broken venv) — updating from
v0.3.5/older resolves them.

🌟 New Contributors

• @paoloantinori made their first contribution in #511 — thank you! 💚

Full Changelog: v0.3.6...v0.3.7

💖 Contributors

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