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ollama v0.40.9

## Speech Ollama can now generate [speech](https://docs.ollama.com/capabilities/speech) with Phonon on Apple Silicon. plays text or a chat model's reply aloud as the audio is generated, and apps can stream audio through the OpenAI-compatible endpoint. ## d3 decision models [d3](https://ollama.com/library/d3) brings vLLM Semantic Router's decision models to Ollama. Give a model text, structured state, or an image, and ask it to classify, answer yes or no, or score options with probabilities. The family includes 2B, 4B, 9B, and 27B sizes. ## Flint on Linux and Windows [Flint](https://ollama.com/library/flint) now runs on Linux and Windows as well as macOS. ## Other improvements - Streaming OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages requests now report generation failures instead of ending silently after partial output. - now passes cloud models' context lengths and capabilities to coding tools, fixing incorrect context and compaction settings. - Anthropic-compatible web search now uses the model's supported thinking setting in follow-up requests,…

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