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](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/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](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/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](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/558), [#519](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/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](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/507)
- 🎬 **Windows: renders play in-app**, not in an uncloseable black window
  by @debpalash in [#538](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/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](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/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](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/556)
- ⏩ **Stories: the global reading-speed slider now applies to preview + stem
  export**, not just the full render by @debpalash in [#509](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/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](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/557)
- 📦 **Engine "Install" button works** — `uv pip install` targets the running
  interpreter instead of a venv it couldn't find by @debpalash in [#559](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/559)
- 🎙️ **Transcription survives GPUs without efficient float16** — both CTranslate2
  ASR backends fall back float16 → int8 instead of "no segments"
  by @debpalash in [#561](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/561)
- 📚 **Audiobook import no longer 500's** (`AudiobookPlan.chapter_count`) across
  .txt / .md / .epub / .pdf by @debpalash in [#544](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/544)
- 🌐 **Actionable video-download errors + a relocated backend venv self-heals**
  (`No module named 'encodings'`) by @debpalash in [#562](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/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](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/503), [#501](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/501)
- 🔁 **Updater Preview channel tracks `main` again** (nightly rebuild) with
  prerelease + Intel-Mac parity guards by @debpalash in [#500](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/500)
- 💛 **Donate goal bar shows real progress** ($10 / $200) instead of fabricated
  numbers by @debpalash in [#513](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/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](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/pull/511) — thank you! 💚

**Full Changelog**: [`v0.3.6...v0.3.7`](https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio/compare/v0.3.6...v0.3.7)

### 💖 Contributors

<a href="https://github.com/debpalash" title="@debpalash"><img src="https://github.com/debpalash.png?size=64" width="48" alt="@debpalash"/></a> <a href="https://github.com/paoloantinori" title="@paoloantinori"><img src="https://github.com/paoloantinori.png?size=64" width="48" alt="@paoloantinori"/></a>


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