Changelog & Release Notes

Enhanced audio playback with buffered progress indicators and improved phoneme generation for more natural speech synthesis.

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  Buffered Progress Indicator: Added visual buffer tracking to audio playback UI, showing both played and buffered portions of TTS audio for better streaming feedback.
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  Phoneme Generation Cleanup: Improved text normalization and phoneme processing for more accurate speech synthesis.
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  Pronunciation Dictionary: Added custom dictionary for commonly mispronounced words, improving TTS accuracy for technical terms and proper nouns.

Critical bug fixes for voice selection and improved error handling during article extraction.

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  Voice Selection Fix: Resolved bugs preventing proper voice switching in the TTS engine.
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  Article Extraction Error Handling: Fixed edge case where extraction succeeded but returned no data, causing console errors.
• palette
  Dark Mode Refinement: Further desaturated dark mode colors to match VS Code aesthetic.

Initial release of TLD2 - 100% local AI-powered article summarization with high-quality neural text-to-speech.

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  Local AI Summarization: Extract and summarize articles using Chrome's built-in AI or Gemini API with complete privacy.
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  Neural Text-to-Speech: StreamingKokoroJS integration with multiple voices, speed control, and GPU acceleration.
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  Modern Sidebar UI: Clean, minimal interface with streaming animations and playback controls.