I'm a bit lost on this commit.. BUT it contains things along the sounds of

- Modified transcription engine
- A RESTful API for the companion VIVO-terminal application
- Kokoro voice engine

build.gradle

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
+import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.transformers.AppendingTransformer
+
 plugins {
     id 'java'
     id 'com.gradleup.shadow' version '9.0.0-beta7'
+
+    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '4.1.0-M4'
+    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.4'
 }
 
 group = 'me.zacharias'
@@ -15,10 +20,16 @@ dependencies {
 
     implementation('me.neurodock:Core:+');
     implementation('io.github.jvoice-project:piper-jni:+')
-    implementation("org.jetbrains:annotations:23.1.0")
-    implementation("io.github.givimad:whisper-jni:+")
-    implementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.17.2'
-    implementation 'com.vdurmont:emoji-java:5.1.1'
+    implementation('com.microsoft.onnxruntime:onnxruntime:1.27.0')
+    implementation('org.jetbrains:annotations:23.1.0')
+    implementation('com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.17.2')
+    implementation('com.vdurmont:emoji-java:5.1.1')
+
+    implementation('info.picocli:picocli:4.7.7')
+
+    implementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:4.1.0-M4')
+    implementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-webflux:4.1.0-M4')
+    implementation('org.springdoc:springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui:3.0.0-M1')
 
     testImplementation platform('org.junit:junit-bom:6.0.0')
     testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter'
@@ -37,6 +48,24 @@ tasks.register('copyPythonRuntime', Copy) {
     into "${layout.buildDirectory.get()}/resources/main/python"
 }
 
+tasks.shadowJar {
+    mergeServiceFiles() // merges META-INF/services/*
+
+    transform(AppendingTransformer) {
+        resource = "META-INF/spring.handlers"
+    }
+    transform(AppendingTransformer) {
+        resource = "META-INF/spring.schemas"
+    }
+    transform(AppendingTransformer) {
+        resource = "META-INF/spring.factories"
+    }
+    // Spring Boot 2.4+ auto-configuration file, needs line-merging too
+    transform(AppendingTransformer) {
+        resource = "META-INF/spring/org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.AutoConfiguration.imports"
+    }
+}
+
 tasks.named('processResources') {
     dependsOn 'copyPythonRuntime'
 }