diff --git a/TTS/engine_wrapper.py b/TTS/engine_wrapper.py
index 2dac26d..89e3b7a 100644
--- a/TTS/engine_wrapper.py
+++ b/TTS/engine_wrapper.py
@@ -104,11 +104,10 @@ class TTSEngine:
 
     def split_post(self, text: str, idx):
         split_files = []
+        pattern = r" *(((.|\n){0," + str(self.tts_module.max_chars) + r"})(\.|.$))"
         split_text = [
             x.group().strip()
-            for x in re.finditer(
-                r" *(((.|\n){0," + str(self.tts_module.max_chars) + "})(\.|.$))", text
-            )
+            for x in re.finditer(pattern, text)
         ]
         self.create_silence_mp3()
 
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index c6a4ae4..01c2dad 100755
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import sys
 from os import name
 from pathlib import Path
 from subprocess import Popen
-from typing import Dict, NoReturn
+from typing import Dict, NoReturn, Union
 
 from platforms import get_content_object, get_screenshot_fn
 from utils import settings
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ print_markdown(
 checkversion(__VERSION__)
 
 reddit_id: str
-reddit_object: Dict[str, str | list]
+reddit_object: Dict[str, Union[str, list]]
 
 
 def _get_platform_post_id(config: dict, platform: str) -> str:
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ def shutdown() -> NoReturn:
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    if sys.version_info.major != 3 or sys.version_info.minor not in [10, 11, 12]:
+    if sys.version_info.major != 3 or sys.version_info.minor < 10:
         print(
-            "Hey! Congratulations, you've made it so far (which is pretty rare with no Python 3.10). Unfortunately, this program only works on Python 3.10. Please install Python 3.10 and try again."
+            "Hey! Congratulations, you've made it so far (which is pretty rare with no Python 3.10). Unfortunately, this program requires Python 3.10 or later. Please install Python 3.10+ and try again."
         )
         sys.exit()
     ffmpeg_install()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 170f90c..606cf11 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
-boto3==1.36.8
-botocore==1.36.8
+boto3==1.42.94
+botocore==1.42.94
 gTTS==2.5.4
 moviepy==2.2.1
-playwright==1.49.1
+playwright==1.58.0
 praw==7.8.1
-requests==2.32.3
-rich==13.9.4
+requests==2.32.5
+rich==15.0.0
 toml==0.10.2
 translators==5.9.9
 pyttsx3==2.98
-tomlkit==0.13.2
-Flask==3.1.1
+tomlkit==0.14.0
+Flask==3.1.3
 clean-text==0.6.0
 unidecode==1.4.0
-spacy==3.8.7
-torch==2.7.0
-transformers==4.52.4
+torch==2.11.0
+transformers==4.57.6
+# spacy==3.8.7  # Optional: only for advanced text parsing (not yet Python 3.14 compatible)
 ffmpeg-python==0.2.0
-elevenlabs==1.57.0
+elevenlabs==2.44.0
 yt-dlp==2025.10.14
diff --git a/utils/fonts.py b/utils/fonts.py
index 4980f6a..abca8fc 100644
--- a/utils/fonts.py
+++ b/utils/fonts.py
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
+from typing import Union
 from PIL.ImageFont import FreeTypeFont, ImageFont
 
 
-def getsize(font: ImageFont | FreeTypeFont, text: str):
+def getsize(font: Union[ImageFont, FreeTypeFont], text: str):
     left, top, right, bottom = font.getbbox(text)
     width = right - left
     height = bottom - top
     return width, height
 
 
-def getheight(font: ImageFont | FreeTypeFont, text: str):
+def getheight(font: Union[ImageFont, FreeTypeFont], text: str):
     _, height = getsize(font, text)
     return height
diff --git a/utils/posttextparser.py b/utils/posttextparser.py
index 2bb930e..b26ab0f 100644
--- a/utils/posttextparser.py
+++ b/utils/posttextparser.py
@@ -3,15 +3,29 @@ import re
 import time
 from typing import List
 
-import spacy
+try:
+    import spacy
+    SPACY_AVAILABLE = True
+except ImportError:
+    SPACY_AVAILABLE = False
 
 from utils.console import print_step
 from utils.voice import sanitize_text
 
 
+def _fallback_sentence_split(text: str) -> List[str]:
+    """Fallback sentence splitter when spacy is not available."""
+    sentences = re.split(r'[.!?]+', text)
+    return [s.strip() for s in sentences if s.strip()]
+
+
 # working good
 def posttextparser(obj, *, tried: bool = False) -> List[str]:
     text: str = re.sub("\n", " ", obj)
+
+    if not SPACY_AVAILABLE:
+        return _fallback_sentence_split(text)
+
     try:
         nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
     except OSError as e:
@@ -20,9 +34,9 @@ def posttextparser(obj, *, tried: bool = False) -> List[str]:
             time.sleep(5)
             return posttextparser(obj, tried=True)
         print_step(
-            "The spacy model can't load. You need to install it with the command \npython -m spacy download en_core_web_sm "
+            "The spacy model can't load. Falling back to regex-based sentence splitting. Install with: python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm"
         )
-        raise e
+        return _fallback_sentence_split(text)
 
     doc = nlp(text)