xVASynth news & patch notes

Headline changes: - Added support for v3 models - Added multi-lingual support, with dropdown setting for the base language to process v3 TTS input as - Purged old speech-to-speech system. Replaced with new v3 voice conversion system, with new python-based mic recording - Added emotion sliders for: Angry, Happy, Sad, Surprised - Added rich text prompt editor with code-editor-like autocompletes for languages and ARPAbet - Added backslash lang control in sub-prompt components, allowing multiple languages per prompt - Added voice crafting system, and support for json-only voice models - Added style sliders, and management system - Added backwards-compatible audio 48khz super-resolution post-processing via nuwave2 diffusion model - Added deepfilternet2 'Clean-up' post-processing model alongside super-resolution Post-processing: - Added ffmpeg settings for noise reduction, with configurable parameters - Added SR and clean-up post-processing support to batch mode - Added de-clipping and de-clicking post-processing ffmpeg filters - Added de-essing post-processing filter UI Changes: - Upgrade from Electron v2 to v19 - Added right click menu on output editor to copy ARPAbet sequence to clipboard - Added error modals for problems with Nexus API use, printing out the full response - More reactive Voice Conversion UI - Auto-insert spaces at start/end of text prompts - Made the automatic space padding configurable via user setting, and not affect the prompt box or output filename - Ensured temporary files are cleaned out after every synthesis - Added Tab autocompletion for selected text to ARPAbet via the g2p backend - Added explicit error message for unsupported ARPAbet symbol - Improved batch mode window design - Changed default ffmpeg Hz to 44100 - Filtered out * asterisks from prompts - Cleared old sliders editor TTS data when voice conversion is used - Disabled useless json output for voice conversion samples - Added more obvious styling for disabled inputs - Removed batch fast mode - Removed now useless 'Automatically generate voice' Voice Conversion setting - Removed ffmpeg pre-apply setting, use as enabled going forward - Made sliders and checkboxes theme coloured - Added pagination to the output records, with user setting for pagination size - Filtered out non-audio files from the output records (Keeping only wav, mp3, ogg, opus, wma, xwm) - Removed game-specific app title changes. Only xVASynth going forward - Changed model details (i) info window opening to click, instead of hover to enable interactivity - Added v2 and v3 UI switching for ARPAbet symbol list displays - Added CC-BY-4.0 category - Added splash page with YouTube links, before the EULA - Hidden the Endorsements/Downloads counters from the Nexus Manage Repos menu, as they do not update Under-the-hood: - Re-built backend environments with Python 3.9 - Add 'pfft' entries into the cmudict - Updated 3d emb visualizer to use better v3 embedding space model - Added ability to load multiple model instances for programmatic use of the app via local http - Added fallback model installation debugging mode for when models are loaded with missing asset files - Added the clean-up model as a pre-processing step for voice conversion Fixes: - Stopped start-up error messages being very quickly dismissed by the start-up process - Fixed Jitter button not doing anything for zero values - Fixed microphone recording not working for mono-only microphones - Stopped using cached g2p words if prediction failed (blank prediction) - Added more explicit and hopefully more robust device switching for synthesis (incl for super-resolution) - Improved/fixed error display/logging for batch mode - Fixed batch mode bug where pitch_amp only affects first batch line - Fixed batch mode output_path not being shown properly - Fixed editor issue where disabled sliders could still be moved if clicked in the right place - Fixed dashes being ignored in ARPAbet dictionary replacements - Fixed not all settings being reset - Fixed manual ARPAbet input being broken in the text processing pipeline - Fixed 3D voice embeddings visualizer not displaying gender information correctly - Lots and lots of other misc tweaks, fixes, and polishing

- Added xVATrainer-like metadata.csv support for batch mode input - Added prompt text into the out samples list rows - Added confirm window for choosing which values to reset - Added records search based on actual prompts in jsons - Added Save to CSV in the batch menu, to export all lines to a single file - Fixed batch input filename case sensitivity - Added more front-end error logging for easier user debugging help - Fixed errors with cuda/vram usage polling - Made alphabetical voice sorting not case sensitive - Fixed auto-regen for letter/phoneme length - Fixed pacing not being correctly reset - Prevented app from clearing batch records if broken file is added on top - Removed spaces/dots from start of filenames (security) - Fixed pitch/energy still being editable if clicking in the same place, even when toggled not visible - Show model json parse errors in a UI error modal - Misc fixes - Added community asset files for new game support: Black and White, Dragon Ball, Elden Ring, Halo, Legacy of Kain, Life is Strange, Shenmue, Starfox 64, The Legend of Heroes, The Wolf Among Us, Vampire Masquerade, Zelda; Added TTS datasets; Updated Starfield with official wallpaper

- Adjusted main app UI bounds for extra space - Added a 'Jitter' button to main app, to randomly wiggle all/selected letters/phonemes - Added pitch amplify multiplier (Amplify/Flatten) column to batch mode - Made the Amplify/Flatten, Raise/Lower buttons take bigger steps - Fix for the audio player sometimes having issues with the pitch/pacing - Pull request credit: ionite - Added setting+option to only highlight models above a specific version, in the voices list panel - Added more robust server killing, on app exit - Added arpabet-replace pre/post event for plugins - Added plugins ability to cache data into the context for across multiple executions - Added google drive link to asset files for Steam users, where assets files can't be published - Added persistance to window position on desktop - Added strict "" searching to ARPAbet menu - Added .lip and .fuz renaming, for if the plugin is used - Better UI scaling for the ARPAbet menu - Stopped trimming spaces from beginning/end of text sequence to allow space starts/ends - Fixed some plugin context data writing not being used by the app - Misc fixes and tweaks - Stopped spam from occasional ARPAbet dict re-loading - Fixed issue where changes in the ARPAbet dictionaries would break repeat synths - Made batch mode output paths default to using ./ prefix, if no drive letter is present - Fixed ellipses preventing ARPAbet replacements - 'Metal Gear Solid' game series support in the app - credit: HappyPenguin - 'YouTube', 'Bloodborne' series support