v0.13 Preview 4

What's Changed

Features

• Add multiple possible goodbye keywords by @art-from-the-machine in #508
• Improved output parsing, small refactoring of LLM client by @Leidtier in #504
• Add option to play first voiceline immediately by @art-from-the-machine in #515
• Add new OpenRouter priority option by @art-from-the-machine in #517

Fixes

• Fix for summaries not being loaded from directories with no refID by @peteben in #505
• Add thank you back to Whisper ignore list by @art-from-the-machine in #509
• Add warning when using default Moonshine Tiny model by @art-from-the-machine in #510
• Delete unused STT route by @art-from-the-machine in #511
• Fix player voicelines by @art-from-the-machine in #513
• Fix duplicate voice lines by using alternating voice lines and topic info by @Leidtier in #507
• Add sentence ending char to Moonshine transcription if missing by @art-from-the-machine in #516
• Make STT warnings less dramatic by @art-from-the-machine in #519
• Reduce STT error log frequency by @art-from-the-machine in #520
• Add option to save files to original voice folder by @art-from-the-machine in #522
• Do not try to load NPC data if inner contents missing by @art-from-the-machine in #523
• Fix Piper incorrectly loading previous voice model instead of next voice model on restart by @art-from-the-machine in #524
• Fix incorrect voice model load when player speaks first by @art-from-the-machine in #527
• Add better error for API connection issues by @art-from-the-machine in #528
• Remove response time logs for functions with zero runtime by @art-from-the-machine in #529
• Fix stop_listening function only running for push-to-talk mic input by @art-from-the-machine in #530
• Update prompts to say events take place within brackets instead of asterisks by @art-from-the-machine in #531

Full Changelog: v0,13_preview_3...v0.13_preview_4

v0.13 Preview 3

What's Changed

Features

Actions

Added customizable actions by @Leidtier in #410

Fallout 4

Fallout: game engine now handling audio, lipsync and subtitles natively by @peteben in #405

Language

Added support for non-Latin languages:

• #426
• #448

LLM

Rework LLM output parser + add narrator by @Leidtier in #475

Response Times

• Added Mantella request to force settings to initialize by @art-from-the-machine in #428
• Performance improvements by @art-from-the-machine in #429
• Added in game events refresh timer by @art-from-the-machine in #480

Speech-to-Text

• Speech-to-text improvements by @art-from-the-machine in #437
• Implemented Moonshine and set it as the default speech to text service by @art-from-the-machine in #463
• Add toggle to allow mic interruption by @art-from-the-machine in #471
• Add option to save mic input by @art-from-the-machine in #472
• Speech-to-Text rework by @art-from-the-machine in #490
• Add local moonshine model by @art-from-the-machine in #498
• Add STT secret key file by @art-from-the-machine in #430

Text-to-Speech

Lip/Fuz file generation using Bethesda's new tools by @peteben in #479

UI

• Condensed Mantella UI Styling by @art-from-the-machine in #455
• Add startup tab to Mantella UI by @art-from-the-machine in #501

UX

• Added a way to set a custom user folder by @Leidtier in #414
• Added startup sound file by @art-from-the-machine in #465
• Added error sounds for key exceptions by @art-from-the-machine in #466
• Play sound when no mic input detected by @art-from-the-machine in #473

Vision

Add option to call separate vision LLM by @YetAnotherModder in #323

Fixes

Language

Add missing languages to configuration definitions. by @koukisdevki in #419

LLM

• Exclude empty strings from in game events by @art-from-the-machine in #469
• Remove temperature from default LLM settings by @art-from-the-machine in #492
• Stop prompt generating twice when changing conv type by @art-from-the-machine in #497

NPCs

• Fixed loading of override CSVs with missing name, base_id or race by @Leidtier in #409
• Fixed character override .csv entries loading as something else than string by @Leidtier in #413
• Fix for negative actorIDs by @peteben in #433
• Check if summary folder exists with name and ref before checking just name by @art-from-the-machine in #500

Text-to-Speech

• Fix piper voicing asterisks by @Leidtier in #407
• Added fallback PiperTTS voice models, removed Pygame & misc fixes by @YetAnotherModder in #453
• Added FO4 facefxwrapper bypass, added fix to Piper TTS select_voice… by @YetAnotherModder in #459
• Fixed string conversion issues in Piper TTS by @YetAnotherModder in #462
• Fixed voice model load for unique Piper models by @art-from-the-machine in #421
• Fixed cases where voice model name cannot be converted using the lower function by @art-from-the-machine in #425
• Fixed voice change function call for multi NPC conversations by @art-from-the-machine in #427
• Fixed Piper crashing when using non Latin languages by @art-from-the-machine in #447

UI

• Fix gradio min-max bounds for int and float causing exceptions by @Leidtier in #408
• Hide Piper and FaceFX folder config values when Mantella.exe is launched with --integrated by @Leidtier in #412
• Fixed conflict in color coding of error logs and HTTP logs by @art-from-the-machine in #431

UX

• Set TTS temp directory to 'os.getenv('TMP')' by @peteben in #461
• Keep window open if API key not found by @art-from-the-machine in #484
• Fix os.makedirs logic by @art-from-the-machine in #486

Full Changelog: v0.12...v0,13_preview_3

v0.12

What's Changed

• Allow CSV entries to have missing voice model entry by @art-from-the-machine in #380
• Take the last six digits of ref ID to ignore plugin ID in saved conversation folders by @art-from-the-machine in #381
• Changed version to v0.12 in Mantella window by @art-from-the-machine in #385
• Detect and process NPC action commands by @art-from-the-machine in #386
• Switched OpenRouter default model to free 8k token model by @art-from-the-machine in #390
• Fixed inaccurate weather description by @art-from-the-machine in #391
• Fixed missing secret key error no longer displaying by @art-from-the-machine in #392
• Add prompt length math logging by @Leidtier in #388
• Remove filtering of XTTS models list by CSV contents by @art-from-the-machine in #389
• Pull location of users Documents folder directly from the windows registry by @Leidtier in #393
• Fix models reseting for manually entered models on next start of the software by @Leidtier in #394
• Hide Game config values when --integrated instead of not adding them at all by @Leidtier in #395
• Fixed ghost updates from UI by @Leidtier in #396
• Fix Mantella crash when loading a faulty character override file by @Leidtier in #397
• Fixed UI not starting without OpenRouter secret key by @Leidtier in #398
• Added note that XTTS accent requires latest XTTS version by @art-from-the-machine in #399
• Added warning that game window must be visible when vision is enabled by @art-from-the-machine in #400
• Cleaned up startup messages by @art-from-the-machine in #401
• Added warning if UI fails to launch by @art-from-the-machine in #402
• Changed hyperlink format color to not conflict with critical logs by @art-from-the-machine in #403

Full Changelog: v0.12_preview_2...v0.12

v0.12 Preview 2

What's Changed

Features

• Separated memories per play-through by @Leidtier in #326
• Add vision support by @thomastieyi in #309
• Select llm model from list by @Leidtier in #331
• Added max count events, changed reload to use token count by @Leidtier in #341
• Reserve exclamation marks for combat situations with Piper by @art-from-the-machine in #345
• Save conversations with generic NPCs by @art-from-the-machine in #356
• Added separate radiant prompt by @Leidtier in #347
• Update skyrim_weather.csv by @jonathonbarton in #349
• Added inventory action by @art-from-the-machine in #372
• Added option to report time less frequently by @art-from-the-machine in #376

Fixes

• Fixed audio issues with FO4 by @YetAnotherModder in #296
• Misc fixes : NPC lookup and audio files copy by @YetAnotherModder in #293
• Fixed summary when dismissing NPCs, several smaller TTS issues and more by @Leidtier in #334
• Changed default value of use_automatic_audio_threshold to False by @Leidtier in #340
• Potential fix for non responsive LLM after summary by @Leidtier in #329
• Add duplicate summary paragraphs only once by @Leidtier in #342
• Respect Windows settings for user directory by @Leidtier in #343
• Added extra lines to Whisper ignore list by @art-from-the-machine in #346
• Search for Piper voice model in each CSV column by @art-from-the-machine in #351
• Actor and context data caching by @art-from-the-machine in #354
• Changed HTTP log colours to not overlap warning and error colours by @art-from-the-machine in #355
• Improved asterisks parsing by @art-from-the-machine in #357
• Added more detailed bios for generic NPCs by @art-from-the-machine in #362
• Switched to representing time in a twelve hour format by @art-from-the-machine in #364
• Added link to the installation guide in the UI by @art-from-the-machine in #365
• Improvements to character overrides by @Leidtier in #348
• Added both baseID and refID and made their usage throughout software explicit by @Leidtier in #368
• Fix baseID lookup by @Leidtier in #369
• Removed extra mention of location at start of conversation by @art-from-the-machine in #371
• Added max attempts for Piper synthesis by @art-from-the-machine in #373
• Increased min sentence length for synthesis to three characters by @art-from-the-machine in #374
• Added log to say how an NPC has been found in the CSV by @art-from-the-machine in #375
• Correctly label the player when a combat event starts by @art-from-the-machine in #378
• Improved asterisks removal when whole sentence contained in asterisks by @art-from-the-machine in #379

Full Changelog: v0.12_preview...v0.12_preview_2

v0.12 Preview

What's Changed

Features

• Use HTTP to communicate with game by @Leidtier in #205
• Rework config values and add settings GUI by @Leidtier in #268
• Added option to voice the player input by TTS by @Leidtier in #292
• Piper TTS Integration by @art-from-the-machine in #308
• Change save data folder to Documents/My Games/Mantella by @art-from-the-machine in #313

Fixes

• Do not save conversation log when conversation is empty by @art-from-the-machine in #316
• Changed default max sentences to 4 by @art-from-the-machine in #317
• Search for secret key in mod parent folder by @art-from-the-machine in #319

Full Changelog: v0.11.4...v0.12_preview

v0.11.4

What's Changed

• Fixed voice changing by @art-from-the-machine in #279
• Update TTS to fix 1.0 voice models by @YetAnotherModder in #272
• Fix fallout4_characters.csv by @YetAnotherModder in #273
• Fix find_character_info by @YetAnotherModder in #278
• Added extra encoding attempt of LLMs by @art-from-the-machine in #281
• Added Llama 3 and GPT-4o token limits by @art-from-the-machine in #282

Full Changelog: v0.11.3...v0.11.4

v0.11.3

What's Changed

• Added search for voice folder names in CSV by @art-from-the-machine in #265
• Better voice model loading by @art-from-the-machine in #267

Full Changelog: v0.11.2...v0.11.3

v0.11.2

Incremented version to 0.11.2 (#262)

v0.11.1

Fixed CSV ID formatting error (#217)