diff --git a/Dockerfile.rocm b/Dockerfile.rocm
index 84b04a3..ef9a626 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.rocm
+++ b/Dockerfile.rocm
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
 
 WORKDIR /app
 
+COPY perth_stub.py .
+
 # Step 1: Install ROCm-compatible PyTorch stack first.
 # This must happen before anything else to prevent pip from pulling CPU wheels.
 COPY requirements-rocm-init.txt .
@@ -26,15 +28,14 @@ RUN pip3 install -r requirements-rocm-init.txt
 COPY requirements-rocm.txt .
 RUN pip3 install -r requirements-rocm.txt
 
-# Step 3: Install resemble-perth with --no-build-isolation so pip uses the
-# already-installed uv binary instead of an isolated env where it can't find it.
-RUN pip3 install uv && \
-    pip3 install --no-build-isolation \
-        "resemble-perth @ git+https://github.com/resemble-ai/Perth.git@master"
-
 # Step 3: Install chatterbox with --no-deps so pip cannot replace ROCm torch.
 RUN pip3 install --no-deps chatterbox-tts
 
+# Stub out resemble-perth (audio watermarking, unnecessary for self-hosted use).
+# Install as 'perth' module to satisfy chatterbox's import.
+RUN python3 -c "import site; print(site.getsitepackages()[0])" | \
+    xargs -I{} cp /app/perth_stub.py {}/perth.py
+
 # Application source
 COPY engine.py config.py wyoming_handler.py wyoming_voices.py main.py ./
 
diff --git a/perth_stub.py b/perth_stub.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b3322c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perth_stub.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Stub for resemble-perth audio watermarking.
+# Watermarking is unnecessary for self-hosted/private deployments.
+# This stub satisfies chatterbox's import without the build complexity.
+
+class PerthImplicitWatermarker:
+    def apply_watermark(self, audio, sample_rate):
+        return audio
+
+class PerthImperceptibleWatermarker:
+    def apply_watermark(self, audio, sample_rate):
+        return audio
diff --git a/requirements-rocm.txt b/requirements-rocm.txt
index f66ca9f..6f7e9c5 100644
--- a/requirements-rocm.txt
+++ b/requirements-rocm.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ huggingface-hub
 omegaconf
 
 # Chatterbox dependencies (installed separately since chatterbox uses --no-deps)
-# Note: resemble-perth is installed in a separate Dockerfile step with --no-build-isolation
+# Note: resemble-perth is stubbed out in perth_stub.py (watermarking unneeded for self-hosted use)
 conformer==0.3.2
 s3tokenizer
 spacy-pkuseg