New release for Rhea Generative Client – PWA 0.9.6

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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.

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    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.
    Rhea Generative Client
    Rhea Embeddable Client
    PWA Variant

    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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