echogarden 0.12.1 → 1.0.0

package/README.md

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 Echogarden is an integrated speech toolset that provides a variety of synthesis, recognition, alignment, and other processing tools, designed to be directly accessible to end-users:
 
 * Easy to install, run, and update
-* Runs on Windows (x64), macOS (x64, ARM64) and Linux (x64)
+* Runs on Windows (x64), macOS (x64, ARM64) and Linux (x64, ARM64)
 * Written in TypeScript, for the Node.js runtime
 * Doesn't require Python, Docker, or similar system-level dependencies
 * Doesn't rely on any essential platform-specific binaries. Engines are either ported via WebAssembly, imported using the [ONNX runtime](https://onnxruntime.ai/), or written in pure JavaScript
@@ -12,18 +12,18 @@ Echogarden is an integrated speech toolset that provides a variety of synthesis,
 
 * Fast, high-quality offline multilingual text-to-speech voices based on the [VITS](https://github.com/jaywalnut310/vits) neural architecture
 * Accurate offline speech recognition using [OpenAI Whisper](https://openai.com/research/whisper) models
-* Supports a [large variety of offline and cloud engines](docs/Engines.md), including services by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Elevenlabs and others
+* Supports a [large variety of offline and cloud engines](docs/Engines.md), including services by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, Elevenlabs and others
 * Word-level timestamps for all synthesis and recognition outputs
-* Speech-to-transcript alignment using dynamic time warping (DTW), and dynamic time warping with recognition assist (DTW-RA) methods, including support for multi-pass (hierarchical) processing. Supports 100+ languages.
+* Speech-to-transcript alignment using dynamic time warping (DTW), and dynamic time warping with recognition assist (DTW-RA) methods, including support for multi-pass (hierarchical) processing. Supports 100+ languages
 * Advanced subtitle generation, accounting for sentence and phrase boundaries
-* Can directly generate translated transcripts for 98 languages, transcribed directly to English, and produce near word-level synchronized subtitles for the translated transcript
+* Can directly generate translated transcripts for 98 languages, transcribed directly to English, and produce near word-level timestamps for the translated transcript
 * Attempts to improve TTS pronunciation accuracy on some engines: adds text normalization (e.g. idiomatic date and currency pronunciation), heteronym disambiguation (based on a rule-based model) and user-customizable pronunciation lexicons
 * Internal package system that auto-downloads and installs voices, models and other resources, as needed
-* Other features include: language detection (for both audio and text), voice activity detection, and speech denoising
+* Other features include: language detection (for both audio and text), voice activity detection, speech denoising and source separation
 
 ## Installation
 
-Ensure you have [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) `v16.0.0` or later installed.
+Ensure you have [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) `v18.0.0` or later installed.
 
 then:
 ```bash
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ npm install echogarden -g
 
 Additional required tools:
 * [`ffmpeg`](https://ffmpeg.org/download.html): used for codec conversions
-* [`sox`](https://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/): used for the CLI's audio playback and recording
+* [`sox`](https://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/): used for the CLI's audio playback
 
 Both tools are auto-downloaded as internal packages on Windows and Linux.
 
-On macOS, they are not currently auto-downloaded due to security issues with unsigned binaries. It is recommended to install them via a package manager like [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) (`brew install ffmpeg sox`) and ensure they are available on the system path.
+On macOS, only `ffmpeg` is currently auto-downloaded. It is recommended to install `sox` via a system package manager like [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) (`brew install sox`) to ensure it is available on the system path.
 
 ### Updating to latest version
 
@@ -44,24 +44,25 @@ On macOS, they are not currently auto-downloaded due to security issues with uns
 npm update echogarden -g
 ```
 
-## Interfacing with the system
+## Interfacing with the toolset
 
 Currently, tools are accessible mainly through a [command-line interface](docs/CLI.md), which enables powerful customization and is especially useful for long-running bulk operations.
 
-Development of more graphical and interactive tooling is [currently ongoing](https://github.com/echogarden-project/echogarden/issues/28).
+Development of more graphical and interactive tooling is [planned](https://github.com/echogarden-project/echogarden/issues/28). A text-to-speech browser extension is currently under development (but not released yet).
 
-If you are a developer, you can also [import the package as a module](docs/API.md) or [interface with it via a WebSocket service](docs/Server.md).
+If you are a developer, you can also [import the package as a module](docs/API.md) or [interface with it via a local WebSocket service](docs/Server.md).
 
 ## Guides and resource pages
 
 * [Using the command-line interface](docs/CLI.md)
 * [Options reference](docs/Options.md)
 * [Full list of supported engines](docs/Engines.md)
-* [Developer API reference](docs/API.md)
-* [Starting and interfacing with a WebSocket server](docs/Server.md)
+* [Node.js API reference](docs/API.md)
+* [How to help](docs/Contributing.md)
+* [Setting up a development environment](docs/Development.md)
 * [Technical overview and Q&A](docs/Technical.md)
 * [Developer's task list](docs/Tasklist.md)
-* [How to help](docs/Development.md)
+* [Release notes](docs/Releases.md)
 
 ## Credits