Characters with Pro Models accessible to all users

Characters that use Venice Pro models are now accessible for non-pro members to interact with. Anonymous and Free users will get a limited number of chats with these characters before being prompted to upgrade to Venice Pro. We look forward to your feedback on Venice Characters.

Venice Voice Downloads

Venice users can now download audio generate from Venice Voice. Once the audio has completely generated, a download icon will appear to the right of the speaker. Clicking this will allow you to save the audio recording as a .wav file.

App

• Refactored the Venice Voice UI so that the button in the message rows only controls reading for that particular message. For users who wish to have the whole conversation read, that can one enabled in the Text settings.

• Venice Voice pronunciation and processing was improved to provide better pronunciation and to strip out characters that are not processable.

• Fixed a bug where a user who was speaking to a character, then went to an image conversation and returned to the character would get an image generation in the first message with that character.

API

• Vision models will now support the submission of multiple image_url parts. For compatibility purposes, the schema supports submitting multiple image_url messages, however, only the last image_url message will be passed to and processed by the model. Docs have been updated.

• The model list endpoint now exposes an optimizedForCode capability on text models. Docs have been updated.

• The model list endpoint now exposes a supportsVision capability on text models. Docs have been updated.

• API Key expiration dates are now returned on the Rate Limit endpoint. Docs have been updated.

• The model list endpoint now exposes all image constraints that are part of the schema validation for image generation. Docs have been updated.

• Postman Authorization helpers have been configured for Venice’s collections. This should help provide instructions for new users on how to generate their API Keys.

• Fixed a bug in the image generation API that was causing content types of binary images to be returned as image/undefined. Added a test case to avoid regression.

• Fixed a bug that was preventing models that had the supportsResponseSchema capability, but not supportsToolCalling from properly processing response_format schema inputs.

• Fixed a bug where Brotli compression was not successfully being passed back to the API caller. The postman example has been updated and a test case has been added.

• The Postman test suite has been completely overhauled and optimized and integrated as part of Venice’s broader CI pipeline.