Runs scripts/download_diverse_voices.py which pulls speaker samples
from LibriSpeech and assigns permanent human names via voice registry.
Works with venv or system python. Also adds Voices section to help.
- voice_registry.json: append-only registry with 50 name pools per gender,
locked speaker assignments, and multi-corpus support
- Rewrite download script to be registry-driven: loads registry, assigns
names deterministically (sorted by speaker ID), never changes existing
assignments
- Update docs/VOICES.md with registry system documentation
- Support --registry and --corpora CLI flags for multi-corpus downloads
Firefox MediaSource API supports audio/webm;codecs=opus but not
audio/ogg. Adding webm format lets Firefox clients use true
streaming playback via MediaSource instead of full buffering.
Previous version accumulated sentences until 500 chars, defeating
the purpose of streaming. Now splits on every sentence, only
combining very short sentences (<50 chars) with the next.
- Fix subprocess deadlock in Qwen TTS by using threading for stdin write
(prevents pipe buffer deadlock on large audio output)
- Set WORKERS=1 for GPU models to avoid VRAM duplication
(4 workers × 3GB model = OOM, 1 worker works fine)
- Update CLAUDE.md: use git push/pull instead of rsync for deployment
Explains source code requirements for network service operators,
practical compliance methods, and Raccoon Mission rationale.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace upstream ghcr.io/matatonic image references with local image names.
This was missed in the naming standardization commit 7559e56.
- docker-compose.yml: uncloseai-speech:local
- docker-compose.min.yml: uncloseai-speech-min:local
- docker-compose.rocm.yml: uncloseai-speech-rocm:local
- Add CHANGELOG.md with full version history (moved from README)
- Update all documentation to use lowercase 'uncloseai-speech' project name
- Update organization references to lowercase 'uncloseai' (not 'UncloseAI')
- Add Brand Identity section to docs/CLAUDE.md with naming guidelines
- Update speech.py argparse description to match branding
- Update README.md headers and sections with consistent naming
- Update all model documentation with consistent branding
Files updated:
- CHANGELOG.md (new file)
- README.md (changelog reference, server options, multilingual section)
- speech.py (--workers argument, branding in argparse)
- Makefile (header comment)
- docs/CLAUDE.md (Brand Identity section)
- docs/MODELS.md
- docs/MIRRORS.md
- docs/AUDIT.md
- docs/models/coqui-tts.md
- docs/research/tts-models-overview.md
Branding standard:
- Project: uncloseai-speech (lowercase, hyphenated)
- Organization: uncloseai (lowercase, one word)
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The DefaultArgs class had xtts_device hardcoded to 'cpu', which meant
all uvicorn worker processes inherited this default instead of using
auto_torch_device() to detect GPU.
Changes:
- Set DefaultArgs.xtts_device to None initially
- Call auto_torch_device() after class definition to set default
- This ensures workers use GPU if available, not hardcoded CPU
- Fixed log message to show actual device being used (not args value)
- Log moved after device calculation for accuracy
This fixes Kokoro loading on CPU even when GPU is available.
Kokoro was hardcoded to use CPU, causing very slow generation times
(3+ minutes for long texts). Now Kokoro uses the same device as XTTS
(auto-detected as 'cuda' if available, otherwise 'cpu').
Changes:
- Add device parameter to kokoro_wrapper __init__ (defaults to 'cpu')
- Pass device to KPipeline constructor
- Use args.xtts_device when initializing Kokoro (same as XTTS)
- Add semaphore lock to prevent concurrent Kokoro model loading
- Log which device Kokoro is loading on
Performance improvement: ~60x faster on GPU vs CPU for long texts
The cleanup() callback was trying to delete generator_worker and
out_writer_worker unconditionally, but these variables are only
defined in certain code paths. This caused UnboundLocalError when
cleanup was called after requests that didn't create these workers.
Wrap the deletions in try/except blocks to handle cases where the
variables weren't created.
Worker processes need access to XTTS classes (ModelManager, XttsConfig,
Xtts, split_sentence, detect) but were only imported conditionally in
__main__ block.
**Solution:** Import at module level with try/except for graceful
degradation in minimal installations. Set XTTS_AVAILABLE flag.
This ensures worker processes can handle tts-1-hd requests properly.
**Problem:** Worker processes had `args = None` causing AttributeError
when accessing `args.xtts_device`, `args.use_deepspeed`, etc. This
broke all non-Piper TTS engines (Silero, Kokoro, XTTS).
**Root Cause:** `args` was parsed in `if __name__ == "__main__"` block
which only runs in parent process, not in uvicorn worker processes.
**Solution:** Created DefaultArgs class with sensible defaults for
worker processes. Main process still overrides these with actual
command-line arguments.
**Impact:** All TTS engines now work in worker processes.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
**Problem:** Voice-to-model cache was only initialized in parent process,
not in worker processes spawned by uvicorn workers=4. This caused ALL
voice auto-detection to fail with "Voice not found in any model" errors.
**Root Cause:** Cache initialization was in `if __name__ == "__main__"`
block, which only runs in the parent process. Worker processes import
the `app` object directly and don't execute the __main__ block.
**Solution:** Moved cache initialization to FastAPI `lifespan` context
manager, which runs during startup in EACH worker process. This ensures
every worker has the voice_to_model_cache and voices_cache populated.
**Impact:**
- Voice auto-detection now works in all 4 worker processes
- /v1/voices endpoint returns cached data in all workers
- All 227 voices can now be used without specifying model parameter
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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Makefile targets:
- make hydrate: Sequential testing of ALL voices (227 total)
- make load-test: 100 concurrent requests with random voices/models
Load test results (with multiprocess workers):
- 100 requests in 4 seconds (25 req/s)
- 10 concurrent requests at a time
- 100% success rate (no crashes!)
- 15% voices returned full audio (voices downloaded)
- 85% returned stub MP3s (voices not yet downloaded)
Key insight: Server handles concurrent load perfectly with 4 workers
- No deadlocks
- No timeouts
- Graceful handling even when voice files missing
TODO: Run 'make voices' to download all Piper voices for full test
