PeaBox Speech Studio v2.0 - Local AI Speech Generation & Multi-Provider Voice Platform

🎙️ 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.

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✨ 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

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☁️ 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

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🔍 Dynamic Voice Discovery

Automatically discover available voices from connected providers.

View:

• Voice name
• Locale
• Language
• Sample rate
• Provider metadata

No hardcoded voice lists.

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📝 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

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💰 Cost Estimation

Estimate provider costs before generating audio.

Supports:

• Azure Speech
• Amazon Polly
• Google Cloud TTS

View:

• Character count
• Estimated cloud cost
• Provider comparison

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🔧 Improvements

Windows Compatibility

Improved Python environment management.

Features:

• Python 3.12 validation
• Automatic virtual environment creation
• Improved installation workflow
• Better package handling

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Transcription Reliability

Fixed Windows temporary-file locking issues.

Improvements:

• Safe temporary-file handling
• Automatic cleanup retries
• Better transcription stability

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Documentation

Added:

• Detailed README
• Installation Guide
• Troubleshooting Guide
• Cloud-provider setup instructions

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📁 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

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🔒 Privacy First

Local features run entirely on your machine.

Cloud providers are optional.

User API keys remain under user control.

No mandatory cloud dependency.

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🛣️ 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

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⚙️ Requirements

Recommended:

• Python 3.12
• FFmpeg
• 8GB+ RAM

Platforms:

• Windows
• Linux

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🙏 Thank You

Thank you for supporting PeaBox Speech Studio.

Feedback, issues and feature requests are welcome through GitHub Issues.

⭐ Star the repository if you find it useful.

Full Changelog: v1.0...v2.0.0

PeaBox Voice Studio v1.0

🎉 First Public Release

PeaBox Speech Studio brings speech generation and transcription together in a single local-first application.

Pre-release version