New release for Rhea Generative Client – PWA 0.9.6

Introduces support for Rhea Speech Services; a self-hosted API service which provides speech-to-text and text-to-speech functionality. The Rhea Client reworks the previous browsers dependant TTS & STT functionality to demonstrate our custom solutions.

Changelog

WebApp:

• Integrates support for Rhea Speech Services; a self-hosted API service which provides speech-to-text and text-to-speech functionality.
  • Dropped support for browsers dependant TTS and STT replacing speak and listen functions with Rhea Speech Services.
  • Adds listening (STT) and playback (TTS) indicators to message box area with background fill tied to progress.
• Various style improvements including:
  • Smaller viewport support.
• Message action toolbar:
  • Each message now has three actions:
    • playback (repeat TTS)
    • copy to clipboard
    • copy to message editor
• Permission request improvements for:
  • Microphone access (speech-to-text, requested when first accessed and handlers for denied states).
• PWA improvements:
  • PWA installation prompt added to settings page/menu.
  • Improved cache/update checking mechanism adding prompt to reload app when changed detected.
  • User capabilities (permissions) determine whether access to the STT & TTS components is exposed.
    • The initial API availability checks permissions applied to the user to returns capabilities supported.

Learn more about Rhea Generative Client and the Rhea Generative Framework.

Note: The Rhea Generative Client is a chat like UI for use with the Rhea Generative Framework or other compatible services; the Rhea backed has support for providers: OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and custom LLM’s.

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