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Bumps github.com/fluidinference/fluidaudio from 0.15.8 to 0.17.7.

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v0.17.7 — Paradee-8M

Paradee-8M (beta) — ParadeeManager (FluidInference/paradee-8m-coreml). Sahil Mahendrakar's Paradee distills Kokoro-82M into an 8M-parameter, single-voice (af_heart) American English TTS model. The Core ML build is 12 MB (int8, default) or 34 MB (fp32) and reuses the Kokoro English frontend.

MiniMax English, 100 phrases, M5 Pro, CPU	Paradee int8	Paradee fp32
Download	12 MB	34 MB
WER / CER (Parakeet round trip)	1.20 % / 0.14 %	1.20 % / 0.14 %
RTFx (incl. G2P)	~100×	~100×
Median synth time per phrase	77 ms	77 ms

On the same inputs, the Core ML models run ~150× real time against ~20× for the upstream ONNX on one thread (~47× on all 15 threads), with identical Whisper transcripts.

let manager = ParadeeManager()
try await manager.initialize()
let samples = try await manager.synthesize(text: "Hello from FluidAudio.")  // 24 kHz Float32

CLI: tts --backend paradee [--variant int8|fp32] [--speed] [--seed] [--phonemes]; tts-benchmark --backend paradee. Runs on .cpuOnly (default) or .cpuAndNeuralEngine; GPU compute units are rejected (the LSTMs abort in MPSGraph). See Paradee.md.

Also in this release: Kokoro ANE English now applies misaki's ɾ → T flap step, so words like "metal" no longer come out as "mattle" (#999), and updated Kokoro v3 benchmark, compute-routing and ANE-profiling docs (#1000).

What's Changed

• feat(tts): Paradee-8M CoreML backend [beta] by @​Alex-Wengg in FluidInference/FluidAudio#998
• fix(tts/kokoro-ane): apply misaki's ɾ → T flap step to English phonemes by @​Alex-Wengg in FluidInference/FluidAudio#999
• docs(kokoro): update v3 benchmarks, compute routing and ANE profiling in FluidInference/FluidAudio#1000

Full Changelog: FluidInference/FluidAudio@v0.17.6...v0.17.7

v0.17.5 — Phonon-2

Phonon-2 — AsrModelVersion.phonon2 (FluidInference/phonon-2-coreml). Fermion Research's quantization-aware re-training of Parakeet TDT v3 for English, in which every encoder weight takes one of five learned values per row. The Core ML build keeps those weights exactly (a sparsity mask plus fp16 palettes, iOS 18 / macOS 15 ops) — no re-quantization — and is the fastest v3-family encoder on the Neural Engine. Existing apps are unaffected: .v3 stays the default; on iOS 17 / macOS 14 .phonon2 throws and points to .ultra.

Full sets, M5 Pro, ANE, same session	v3	Ultra	Phonon-2
Download	~480 MB	~630 MB	~360 MB
LibriSpeech test-clean WER	2.27 %	2.13 %	2.47 %
LibriSpeech test-other WER	4.12 %	3.81 %	4.62 %
test-clean / test-other RTFx	149–152× / 138×	151× / 142×	159× / 146×
60-minute Earnings-22 file	335×	457×	480×

English only. The HF repo also carries four more exact encoders (176 MB to 470 MB) for other size/speed trade-offs; see Phonon2.md.

let models = try await AsrModels.downloadAndLoad(version: .phonon2)

CLI: --model-version phonon2 on transcribe and the benchmarks; transcribe gains --encoder-compute-units ane|gpu|cpu|all.

Also in this release: LocalVQE acoustic echo cancellation (beta, #930), Kokoro ANE fixes for long utterances (#963, #965) and English mixing in other variants (#970), LuxTTS mid-phrase pause fix (#942), an iterative word aligner for custom vocabulary (#962), and a roman-numeral list-marker fix in English text normalization (#974).

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Commits

• 503b4bd fix(build): bump podspec to 0.17.7
• b8eab73 fix(tts/kokoro-ane): apply misaki's ɾ → T flap step to English phonemes (#999)
• 4ba3e01 feat(tts): Paradee-8M CoreML backend [beta] (#998)
• 7c422a7 docs(kokoro): update v3 benchmarks, compute routing and ANE profiling (#1000)
• 582d7cd fix(package): build for visionOS (#996)
• ca0cbe7 feat(tts): integrate Kokoro ANE-v3 with native Japanese text support (#997)
• ea63ac3 fix(tts/kokoro-ane/zh): only fold an erhua 儿 into the previous syllable (#983...
• 04e363c fix(download): adopt unmarked caches for pinned revisions (#977)
• 3e5a323 fix(offline-diarizer): exclude digitally silent frames from the FBank mean (#...
• 16c7dd6 feat(cli): transcribe --model-version unified, with word timings in --output-...
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Superseded by #137.