fixed a lot of things and actually got it to work

entrypoint.sh

@@ -12,8 +12,36 @@ else
     ls -la "$MODEL_DIR"
 fi
 
+# Ensure NLTK data is available
+python -c "
+import nltk
+try:
+    nltk.data.find('taggers/averaged_perceptron_tagger_eng')
+except LookupError:
+    nltk.download('averaged_perceptron_tagger_eng')
+try:
+    nltk.data.find('corpora/cmudict')
+except LookupError:
+    nltk.download('cmudict')
+"
+
+HALF="${HALF:-false}"
+PRELOAD="${PRELOAD:-false}"
+
+HALF_FLAG=""
+if [ "$HALF" = "true" ]; then
+    HALF_FLAG="--half"
+fi
+
+PRELOAD_FLAG=""
+if [ "$PRELOAD" = "true" ]; then
+    PRELOAD_FLAG="--preload"
+fi
+
 echo "Starting Wyoming GLaDOS TTS server..."
 exec python -m wyoming_glados \
     --model-dir "$MODEL_DIR" \
     --uri "${URI:-tcp://0.0.0.0:10200}" \
-    --device "${DEVICE:-cpu}"
+    --device "${DEVICE:-cpu}" \
+    $HALF_FLAG \
+    $PRELOAD_FLAG