From 104a0d65c1ba37847c15b64212b7fec8ba371ccb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: historia <historiavg@proton.me>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:18:56 -0400
Subject: fix: broken venv imports

---
 requirements.txt | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'requirements.txt')

diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 17e94f5..9478b64 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ gradio_client>=0.7.0
 pypdf>=4.0.0
 ebooklib>=0.18
 
-# Optional dependencies
-beautifulsoup4>=4.11.0  # better HTML cleaning for EPUB
-faster-whisper>=1.0.0  # reference-audio transcription for voice cloning
+# Optional dependencies — features degrade gracefully without them
+# (tagged "# optional:" so the env bootstrap can skip them on platforms
+# with no compatible wheels instead of failing the install)
+beautifulsoup4>=4.11.0  # optional: better HTML cleaning for EPUB (stdlib fallback)
+faster-whisper>=1.0.0  # optional: reference-audio transcription (falls back to x-vector-only cloning)
 windows-curses>=2.3; sys_platform == "win32"  # enables the TUI on Windows
 
 # Audio processing
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