Flatpak:

• Modular Flatpak package. The application package is divided into a base package 'Speech Note' (net.mkiol.SpeechNote) and two optional add-ons: 'Speech Note AMD' (net.mkiol.SpeechNote.amd) and 'Speech Note NVIDIA' (net.mkiol.SpeechNote.nvidia). Add-ons packages provide a set of libraries for GPU acceleration with AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards. New "modular" approach makes the base Flatpak package much smaller.
• NVIDIA CUDA runtime update to version 12.2
• AMD ROCm runtime update to version 5.6
• PyTorch update to version 2.1.1

User Interface:

• Improvements to the model browser. You can check various model properties such as size, license, and the URLs from which the model is downloaded.
• Model filtering options. Models can be searched by various features such as: Processing speed, Quality, Additional capabilities.
• Setting option to minimize to the system tray
• Setting option to enable/disable including of recognized or read text in desktop notifications

Speech to Text:

• Marathi language. New language is enabled with Whisper and Faster Whisper models.
• New version of Faster Whisper Large model: 'FasterWhisper Large-v3'
• New 'Distil' Faster Whisper models for English. 'Distil' models are potentially faster than regular models.
• Whisper and Faster Whisper enabled for Chinese-Cantonese language
• Support for Speex audio codec in 'Transcribe a file'
• Translate to English option for Whisper and Faster Whisper models
• More effective GPU acceleration for Whisper models with AMD graphics cards
• Subtitles generation
• Support for multiple audio streams in a video file

Text to Speech:

• Marathi language. New language is enabled with Coqui MMS model.
• Voice cloning with Coqui XTTS and YourTTS models. Coqui XTTS models are enabled for: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. Coqui YourTTS model is enabled for: English, French and Brazilian Portuguese.
• Voice samples creator. A reference voice sample is used for voice cloning. You can create voice sample with a microphone or from audio or video file. The sample creator is available on main toolbar only if the selected TTS model supports voice cloning.
• New voices for Serbian and Uzbek languages (RHVoice models)
• GPU acceleration for Coqui models with AMD graphics cards
• Speech synchronized with subtitle timestamps (e.g. useful for voice overs)

Translator:

• New model: Lithuanian to English
• Option to force text cleaning before translation. If the input text is incorrectly formatted, this option may improve the translation quality.
• Text formatting support. The translation will preserve the formatting from the input text. Supported formats are: HTML, Markdown and SRT Subtitles.
• Translation progress indicator

Other:

• Setting option to override GPU version (AMD graphics cards)
• Setting option to limit number of simultaneous CPU threads
• Setting option to set Python libraries directory (PYTHONPATH). This option may be useful if you use 'venv' module to manage Python libraries.