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  • v0.17.0

    Two ASR models now return the phones that were spoken instead of words.
    
    - Two phoneme-recognition ASR slugs on the OpenAI-compatible transcription
      endpoint. Unlike the word-level models they carry no language model and no
      lexicon, so a mispronunciation surfaces as the phones that were said rather
      than being corrected to the nearest real word. Both return a space-separated
      IPA phone stream in `text`, one segment per file, and per-phone `words` with
      start/end times when timestamps are requested, so `verbose_json`, `srt`,
      `vtt` and `timestamp_granularities` behave as they do for the other ASR
      models. Both are in the CPU and CUDA images.
    - `wav2vec2-xlsr-53-espeak` (`facebook/wav2vec2-xlsr-53-espeak-cv-ft`, executor
      `wav2vec2_phoneme`) is a multilingual wav2vec2 CTC model that emits eSpeak
      IPA, the same phone alphabet the Kokoro G2P path uses. It adds no image
      dependency, `Wav2Vec2ForCTC` already ships with the bundled transformers.
      Audio past `TALKIES_VAD_CHUNK_THRESHOLD` is VAD-chunked before decoding.
      Weights are Apache-2.0.
    - `zipa-ipa` (`anyspeech/zipa-small-crctc-500k`, executor
      `sherpa_offline_ctc`) is a Zipformer IPA CTC model served through the
      sherpa-onnx runtime already in the images. It is a 71 MB int8 download and
      decodes a whole file in one pass at tens of times realtime on CPU. The
      weights repository carries no license tag; the checkpoint lineage is
      Apache-2.0, and the weights download at runtime rather than shipping in the
      image.
    - `sherpa_offline_ctc` is a new registry executor, a non-streaming
      `OfflineRecognizer` distinct from the streaming `sherpa` executor. It takes
      the same `sherpa_config` shape (`model`, `tokens`) and `download_patterns`.
  • v0.16.0

    Operators can now turn off the Chatterbox watermark.
    
    - `TALKIES_CHATTERBOX_WATERMARK` controls whether `chatterbox-turbo` embeds
      Resemble AI's PerTh neural watermark in the audio it generates. It accepts
      `true/false/1/0/yes/no`, defaults to `true`, and rejects any other value at
      startup. Unset and blank both keep the watermark on, so a stray empty value
      cannot silently strip it.
    - Setting it to false substitutes a passthrough watermarker after the model
      loads. `chatterbox-tts` calls `self.watermarker.apply_watermark` on every
      generation and that attribute is writable, so Talkies patches nothing
      upstream. The backend logs an info record when the watermark is off.
    - Of the three bundled TTS engines only Chatterbox watermarks. Kokoro and
      Qwen3-TTS embed nothing, so this one setting covers every watermark the
      images can produce.
    
    - `pyproject.toml` still declared `0.15.2` after the v0.15.3 tag, because that
      release staged documentation only. `make version` therefore printed a tag
      that was already published, and an image built from it would have collided
      with the existing one. The canonical version now moves with the tag again.
  • v0.15.3

    docker-talkies v0.15.3 — docs catch up with the chatterbox executor
    
    docs/models.md listed ten of the eleven executors in VALID_EXECUTORS, omitting
    chatterbox, and the agent skill still described the pre-Chatterbox TTS surface.
    Both now match the source, and the release script derives the check from
    config.py and models.json rather than trusting the prose.
    
    No code changed.
  • v0.15.2

    v0.15.2: pin setuptools<81 so the chatterbox watermarker loads
    
    chatterbox-turbo died with "TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable" at
    model load. resemble-perth 1.0.1 needs pkg_resources, which setuptools dropped
    in 81; the CUDA lock had resolved setuptools transitively to 82.0.1. Upstream
    swallows the ImportError and leaves PerthImplicitWatermarker as None, so the
    failure surfaced only on the first synthesis request.
    
    scripts/heavy-deps-cuda.in now constrains setuptools<81 (lock resolves 80.10.2,
    no other package moved), and Dockerfile.cuda asserts the watermarker is
    constructible at build time so this fails the build rather than a request.
    
    See CHANGELOG.md for the full entry.
  • v0.15.1

    v0.15.1: register the chatterbox executor
    
    Hotfix for v0.15.0, whose CUDA image exited during import because
    VALID_EXECUTORS in src/talkies/config.py did not contain "chatterbox" while
    models.json declared it. load_registry() runs at server import, so the whole
    process died rather than one model failing.
    
    Adds a shipped-registry contract test over models.json and models-cpu.json so
    any future executor added to a registry without a matching allowlist entry
    fails in CI instead of at container start.
    
    See CHANGELOG.md for the full entry.
  • v0.15.0

    v0.15.0: Chatterbox Turbo expressive TTS
    
    Third TTS engine in the CUDA registry. English, 24 kHz mono, 19 inline
    paralinguistic tags written directly in the input text, and transcript-free
    voice cloning from a reference .wav longer than 5 seconds.
    
    Voices come from /data/custom-voices plus a builtin speaker shipped inside the
    checkpoint. Output carries a neural watermark applied by the upstream package.
    
    chatterbox-tts and s3tokenizer install hash-pinned and --no-deps from
    requirements-chatterbox.txt, keeping their unsatisfiable pins and development
    tooling out of the runtime image.
    
    See CHANGELOG.md for the full entry.
  • v0.14.1

    Talkies 0.14.1: corrected agent integrations and distribution metadata
  • v0.14.0

    Talkies 0.14.0: per-model inference concurrency, CUDA parakeet.cpp, and complete unload cleanup
  • v0.13.3

    v0.13.3 — Sherpa word output fixes (words never returned, subword fragments, batch duplication) + per-word confidence
  • v0.13.2

    v0.13.2 — track the shared reusable workflows at master
  • v0.13.1

    v0.13.1: correct deployment and API guidance
  • v0.13.0

    v0.13.0: bundle Sherpa and Vosk transcription
  • v0.12.1

    v0.12.1: reorganize documentation into guides
  • v0.12.0

    v0.12.0: add live streaming ASR
  • v0.11.10

    v0.11.10 — fix missing Codex plugin install command in README
  • v0.11.9

    v0.11.9 — add Claude Code + Codex plugin manifests
  • v0.11.8

    v0.11.8 — CI status badge
  • v0.11.7

    v0.11.7 — README badges
  • v0.11.6

    v0.11.6 — list on the official MCP Registry (server.json + OIDC publish)
  • v0.11.5

    v0.11.5 — third-party license notices (THIRD_PARTY.md + LICENSES/)