Multiic [Ongoing] - Version: 0.6.61

What's New in Multiic Version - 0.6.61?

Kas, qwen-tts, coque-tts, koboldcpp, music, refactoring, bugfix

→ new male character — Kasper (Kas)
→ local speech synthesis via qwen
→ in the win and win-local builds, for convenience, added a check for the required coqui and qwen tts libraries and download links in settings
→ koboldcpp for images — added gpu/cpu selection; for gpu, cuda is prioritized, if not found it launches vulkan; cpu is not recommended, but in rare cases can be useful
→ confetti effect in key story moments
→ new music
→ fixed a critical message history bug; by default, history is now limited to 18 messages (excluding system contexts) and the slider works correctly. the maximum value was increased from 40 to 50 (that’s a lot, and not all models can handle that, so if your local model starts struggling or api costs get too high, lower it to 27–32)
→ koboldcpp: now the image and text models don’t start together unless it’s selected in settings; set the launch priority for the image model — gpu/cpu; updated to 1.108.1
→ added info that Ava for sandbox unlocks as you progress through the story; the unlock was moved closer to the beginning of the part where Ava comes to, in story navigation this is the point — “in the park with Ava”
→ updated whisper (local speech recognition); the model was changed to the small and fast ggml-small-q5_1
→ improved local speech synthesis from coqui (xtts-v2); fixed behavior where punctuation marks were read incorrectly and bugged out as ‘point’; pauses became more natural
→ rebuilt the main screen layout; the custom character moved into a button in the bottom right corner (click the icon — selection screen; hover and click the picture — quick jump to the character)
→ improved snow performance
→ fixed determining the current relationship status with a character for models via koboldcpp
→ slightly increased the length for the image prompt builder bot
→ improved text model error messages: instead of an uninformative “crash” window — a short message
→ refactoring and code optimization; small ui/ux improvements

Kas is only in sandbox for now; he’ll appear in the story later. he currently has much less visual content than the other characters, but he got a well-developed context

qwen3-tts: creating a voice from a description is still in development; for now, cloning and preset voices are available

message history: because of a bug, all models except gemini were limited to 12 messages of history, thx to everyone who reported the issue

whisper: changed support for nvidia 50 series so the build doesn’t carry extra weight, but it still should work on new gpus and fall back to cpu as a last resort; if not — drop a comment pls