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.
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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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