chore(release): v0.3.4 (#269)

Patch release. Version bumped across all sources + lock files; [0.3.4] CHANGELOG.

Ships:
- #255 — PyTorch-Whisper backend works as a standalone fallback (no cuDNN 8,
  no OMNIVOICE_PRELOAD_TTS_ASR=1), unblocking Windows+NVIDIA users hitting the
  cudnn_ops_infer64_8.dll error.

Tagging v0.3.4 triggers release.yml (desktop) + docker.yml.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,17 @@ The format is loosely based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/).
 Versions track the desktop app (`tauri.conf.json` + `frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.toml`).
 The bundled TTS model package (`pyproject.toml`) is versioned independently.
 
+## [0.3.4] — 2026-06-03
+
+### Fixed
+- **Transcription on Windows + NVIDIA failed with `Could not locate
+  cudnn_ops_infer64_8.dll`.** WhisperX/faster-whisper need cuDNN 8 (via
+  CTranslate2); when the side-loaded `cudnn8_compat` libs are missing, the
+  **PyTorch Whisper** backend (Settings → Models) now works as a drop-in
+  fallback — it builds its own transformers pipeline on PyTorch's cuDNN-9
+  stack, with no CTranslate2/cuDNN-8 dependency and no
+  `OMNIVOICE_PRELOAD_TTS_ASR=1` required. (#255)
+
 ## [0.3.3] — 2026-06-03
 
 ### Fixed

backend/core/version.py

@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ from importlib.metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version
 try:
     APP_VERSION = version("omnivoice")
 except PackageNotFoundError:  # non-installed source checkout
-    APP_VERSION = "0.3.3"
+    APP_VERSION = "0.3.4"

frontend/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "omnivoice-studio",
   "private": true,
-  "version": "0.3.3",
+  "version": "0.3.4",
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "vite",

frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.lock

@@ -2878,7 +2878,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "omnivoice-studio"
-version = "0.3.3"
+version = "0.3.4"
 dependencies = [
  "dirs-next",
  "enigo",

frontend/src-tauri/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "omnivoice-studio"
-version = "0.3.3"
+version = "0.3.4"
 description = "OmniVoice Studio – AI voice cloning & dubbing desktop app"
 authors = ["Debpalash"]
 license = "AGPL-3.0"

frontend/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$schema": "../node_modules/@tauri-apps/cli/config.schema.json",
   "productName": "OmniVoice Studio",
-  "version": "0.3.3",
+  "version": "0.3.4",
   "identifier": "com.debpalash.omnivoice-studio",
   "build": {
     "frontendDist": "../dist",

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "omnivoice"
-version = "0.3.3"
+version = "0.3.4"
 description = "OmniVoice: Towards Omnilingual Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Diffusion Language Models"
 readme = "README.md"
 # Source-available under FSL-1.1-ALv2 (see LICENSE); each release converts to

uv.lock

@@ -3058,7 +3058,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "omnivoice"
-version = "0.3.3"
+version = "0.3.4"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "accelerate" },