Refreshes README and linked docs with accurate installation, platform, privacy, API, and model-license guidance; documents local gigastt; and pins OpenAI-compatible ASR traffic to the configured secure origin. Closes#1736.
Renames what users see. The app, the installers, the window title, the
docs and all 21 locales now say VoiceStudio, with "(previously
OmniVoice-Studio)" noted near the title of each doc surface so people
recognise it.
Deliberately NOT renamed, because renaming any of them silently breaks
an existing install — there is no legacy-path fallback anywhere in this
codebase:
- bundle identifier com.debpalash.omnivoice-studio (MSI UpgradeCode,
macOS TCC grants, managed venv, WebView localStorage, the
single-instance lock)
- data directories OmniVoice / .omnivoice and omnivoice.db
- the ~150 OMNIVOICE_* environment variables
- the X-OmniVoice-* HTTP headers (a wire protocol)
- the published Docker image paths
- the OmniVoice ENGINE, which is a model name and not this product
tests/test_identity_paths_survive_the_rename.py pins every one of those
so a future well-meaning sweep cannot orphan a user's library.
Linux .deb users install a new package name and should apt remove
omnivoice-studio; that note is in the changelog.
Two small README/packaging fixes.
1. Add a self-updating total-downloads badge next to the stars badge.
shields.io re-queries the GitHub releases API on every page view, so the
number (currently ~137k across 563 release assets) stays current without
ever editing the README again.
2. Fix license detection. GitHub's API reported this repo as
"Other" / NOASSERTION, which breaks the license UI and the corporate
license scanners that gate adoption — the exact users the commercial
license exception is for.
The cause was packaging, not content: LICENSE carried a 53-line
plain-language notice prepended above the AGPL text, which pushes the
file below licensee's similarity threshold. The AGPL-3.0 body was
already byte-identical to the canonical text at gnu.org.
LICENSE is now the verbatim canonical AGPL-3.0 text and nothing else.
The notice — including the commercial-license offer, the scope section,
and the Apache-2.0 carve-out for the bundled omnivoice/ model — moves
verbatim to LICENSE-NOTICE.md, linked from LICENSE and the README.
No terms changed.
Co-authored-by: user <user@users-MacBook-Air.local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Palash Debnath