hermes-agent/hermes_cli/voice.py
0xbyt4 04c489b587 feat(tui): match CLI's voice slash + VAD-continuous recording model
The TUI had drifted from the CLI's voice model in two ways:

- /voice on was lighting up the microphone immediately and Ctrl+B was
  interpreted as a mode toggle.  The CLI separates the two: /voice on
  just flips the umbrella bit, recording only starts once the user
  presses Ctrl+B, which also sets _voice_continuous so the VAD loop
  auto-restarts until the user presses Ctrl+B again or three silent
  cycles pass.
- /voice tts was missing entirely, so users couldn't turn agent reply
  speech on/off from inside the TUI.

This commit brings the TUI to parity.

Python

- hermes_cli/voice.py: continuous-mode API (start_continuous,
  stop_continuous, is_continuous_active) layered on the existing PTT
  wrappers. The silence callback transcribes, fires on_transcript,
  tracks consecutive no-speech cycles, and auto-restarts — mirroring
  cli.py:_voice_stop_and_transcribe + _restart_recording.
- tui_gateway/server.py:
  - voice.toggle now supports on / off / tts / status.  The umbrella
    bit lives in HERMES_VOICE + display.voice_enabled; tts lives in
    HERMES_VOICE_TTS + display.voice_tts.  /voice off also tears down
    any active continuous loop so a toggle-off really releases the
    microphone.
  - voice.record start/stop now drives start_continuous/stop_continuous.
    start is refused with a clear error when the mode is off, matching
    cli.py:handle_voice_record's early return on `not _voice_mode`.
  - New voice.transcript / voice.status events emit through
    _voice_emit (remembers the sid that last enabled the mode so
    events land in the right session).

TypeScript

- gatewayTypes.ts: voice.status + voice.transcript event
  discriminants; VoiceToggleResponse gains tts; VoiceRecordResponse
  gains status for the new "started/stopped" responses.
- interfaces.ts: GatewayEventHandlerContext gains composer.setInput +
  submission.submitRef + voice.{setRecording, setProcessing,
  setVoiceEnabled}; InputHandlerContext.voice gains enabled +
  setVoiceEnabled for the mode-aware Ctrl+B handler.
- createGatewayEventHandler.ts: voice.status drives REC/STT badges;
  voice.transcript auto-submits when the composer is empty (CLI
  _pending_input.put parity) and appends when a draft is in flight.
  no_speech_limit flips voice off + sys line.
- useInputHandlers.ts: Ctrl+B now calls voice.record (start/stop),
  not voice.toggle, and nudges the user with a sys line when the
  mode is off instead of silently flipping it on.
- useMainApp.ts: wires the new event-handler context fields.
- slash/commands/session.ts: /voice handles on / off / tts / status
  with CLI-matching output ("voice: mode on · tts off").

Backward compat preserved for voice.record (was always PTT shape;
gateway still honours start/stop with mode-gating added).
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"""Process-wide voice recording + TTS API for the TUI gateway.
Wraps ``tools.voice_mode`` (recording/transcription) and ``tools.tts_tool``
(text-to-speech) behind idempotent, stateful entry points that the gateway's
``voice.record``, ``voice.toggle``, and ``voice.tts`` JSON-RPC handlers can
call from a dedicated thread. The gateway imports this module lazily so that
missing optional audio deps (sounddevice, faster-whisper, numpy) surface as
an ``ImportError`` at call time, not at startup.
Two usage modes are exposed:
* **Push-to-talk** (``start_recording`` / ``stop_and_transcribe``) — single
manually-bounded capture used when the caller drives the start/stop pair
explicitly.
* **Continuous (VAD)** (``start_continuous`` / ``stop_continuous``) — mirrors
the classic CLI voice mode: recording auto-stops on silence, transcribes,
hands the result to a callback, and then auto-restarts for the next turn.
Three consecutive no-speech cycles stop the loop and fire
``on_silent_limit`` so the UI can turn the mode off.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import logging
import os
import sys
import threading
from typing import Any, Callable, Optional
from tools.voice_mode import (
create_audio_recorder,
is_whisper_hallucination,
play_audio_file,
transcribe_recording,
)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
def _debug(msg: str) -> None:
"""Emit a debug breadcrumb when HERMES_VOICE_DEBUG=1.
Goes to stderr so the TUI gateway wraps it as a gateway.stderr event,
which createGatewayEventHandler shows as an Activity line — exactly
what we need to diagnose "why didn't the loop auto-restart?" in the
user's real terminal without shipping a separate debug RPC.
"""
if os.environ.get("HERMES_VOICE_DEBUG", "").strip() == "1":
print(f"[voice] {msg}", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
def _beeps_enabled() -> bool:
"""CLI parity: voice.beep_enabled in config.yaml (default True)."""
try:
from hermes_cli.config import load_config
voice_cfg = load_config().get("voice", {})
if isinstance(voice_cfg, dict):
return bool(voice_cfg.get("beep_enabled", True))
except Exception:
pass
return True
def _play_beep(frequency: int, count: int = 1) -> None:
"""Audible cue matching cli.py's record/stop beeps.
880 Hz single-beep on start (cli.py:_voice_start_recording line 7532),
660 Hz double-beep on stop (cli.py:_voice_stop_and_transcribe line 7585).
Best-effort — sounddevice failures are silently swallowed so the
voice loop never breaks because a speaker was unavailable.
"""
if not _beeps_enabled():
return
try:
from tools.voice_mode import play_beep
play_beep(frequency=frequency, count=count)
except Exception as e:
_debug(f"beep {frequency}Hz failed: {e}")
# ── Push-to-talk state ───────────────────────────────────────────────
_recorder = None
_recorder_lock = threading.Lock()
# ── Continuous (VAD) state ───────────────────────────────────────────
_continuous_lock = threading.Lock()
_continuous_active = False
_continuous_recorder: Any = None
_continuous_on_transcript: Optional[Callable[[str], None]] = None
_continuous_on_status: Optional[Callable[[str], None]] = None
_continuous_on_silent_limit: Optional[Callable[[], None]] = None
_continuous_no_speech_count = 0
_CONTINUOUS_NO_SPEECH_LIMIT = 3
# ── Push-to-talk API ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
def start_recording() -> None:
"""Begin capturing from the default input device (push-to-talk).
Idempotent — calling again while a recording is in progress is a no-op.
"""
global _recorder
with _recorder_lock:
if _recorder is not None and getattr(_recorder, "is_recording", False):
return
rec = create_audio_recorder()
rec.start()
_recorder = rec
def stop_and_transcribe() -> Optional[str]:
"""Stop the active push-to-talk recording, transcribe, return text.
Returns ``None`` when no recording is active, when the microphone
captured no speech, or when Whisper returned a known hallucination.
"""
global _recorder
with _recorder_lock:
rec = _recorder
_recorder = None
if rec is None:
return None
wav_path = rec.stop()
if not wav_path:
return None
try:
result = transcribe_recording(wav_path)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("voice transcription failed: %s", e)
return None
finally:
try:
if os.path.isfile(wav_path):
os.unlink(wav_path)
except Exception:
pass
# transcribe_recording returns {"success": bool, "transcript": str, ...}
# — matches cli.py:_voice_stop_and_transcribe's result.get("transcript").
if not result.get("success"):
return None
text = (result.get("transcript") or "").strip()
if not text or is_whisper_hallucination(text):
return None
return text
# ── Continuous (VAD) API ─────────────────────────────────────────────
def start_continuous(
on_transcript: Callable[[str], None],
on_status: Optional[Callable[[str], None]] = None,
on_silent_limit: Optional[Callable[[], None]] = None,
silence_threshold: int = 200,
silence_duration: float = 3.0,
) -> None:
"""Start a VAD-driven continuous recording loop.
The loop calls ``on_transcript(text)`` each time speech is detected and
transcribed successfully, then auto-restarts. After
``_CONTINUOUS_NO_SPEECH_LIMIT`` consecutive silent cycles (no speech
picked up at all) the loop stops itself and calls ``on_silent_limit``
so the UI can reflect "voice off". Idempotent — calling while already
active is a no-op.
``on_status`` is called with ``"listening"`` / ``"transcribing"`` /
``"idle"`` so the UI can show a live indicator.
"""
global _continuous_active, _continuous_recorder
global _continuous_on_transcript, _continuous_on_status, _continuous_on_silent_limit
global _continuous_no_speech_count
with _continuous_lock:
if _continuous_active:
_debug("start_continuous: already active — no-op")
return
_continuous_active = True
_continuous_on_transcript = on_transcript
_continuous_on_status = on_status
_continuous_on_silent_limit = on_silent_limit
_continuous_no_speech_count = 0
if _continuous_recorder is None:
_continuous_recorder = create_audio_recorder()
_continuous_recorder._silence_threshold = silence_threshold
_continuous_recorder._silence_duration = silence_duration
rec = _continuous_recorder
_debug(
f"start_continuous: begin (threshold={silence_threshold}, duration={silence_duration}s)"
)
# CLI parity: single 880 Hz beep *before* opening the stream — placing
# the beep after stream.start() on macOS triggers a CoreAudio conflict
# (cli.py:7528 comment).
_play_beep(frequency=880, count=1)
try:
rec.start(on_silence_stop=_continuous_on_silence)
except Exception as e:
logger.error("failed to start continuous recording: %s", e)
_debug(f"start_continuous: rec.start raised {type(e).__name__}: {e}")
with _continuous_lock:
_continuous_active = False
raise
if on_status:
try:
on_status("listening")
except Exception:
pass
def stop_continuous() -> None:
"""Stop the active continuous loop and release the microphone.
Idempotent — calling while not active is a no-op. Any in-flight
transcription completes but its result is discarded (the callback
checks ``_continuous_active`` before firing).
"""
global _continuous_active, _continuous_on_transcript
global _continuous_on_status, _continuous_on_silent_limit
global _continuous_recorder, _continuous_no_speech_count
with _continuous_lock:
if not _continuous_active:
return
_continuous_active = False
rec = _continuous_recorder
on_status = _continuous_on_status
_continuous_on_transcript = None
_continuous_on_status = None
_continuous_on_silent_limit = None
_continuous_no_speech_count = 0
if rec is not None:
try:
# cancel() (not stop()) discards buffered frames — the loop
# is over, we don't want to transcribe a half-captured turn.
rec.cancel()
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("failed to cancel recorder: %s", e)
# Audible "recording stopped" cue (CLI parity: same 660 Hz × 2 the
# silence-auto-stop path plays).
_play_beep(frequency=660, count=2)
if on_status:
try:
on_status("idle")
except Exception:
pass
def is_continuous_active() -> bool:
"""Whether a continuous voice loop is currently running."""
with _continuous_lock:
return _continuous_active
def _continuous_on_silence() -> None:
"""AudioRecorder silence callback — runs in a daemon thread.
Stops the current capture, transcribes, delivers the text via
``on_transcript``, and — if the loop is still active — starts the
next capture. Three consecutive silent cycles end the loop.
"""
global _continuous_active, _continuous_no_speech_count
_debug("_continuous_on_silence: fired")
with _continuous_lock:
if not _continuous_active:
_debug("_continuous_on_silence: loop inactive — abort")
return
rec = _continuous_recorder
on_transcript = _continuous_on_transcript
on_status = _continuous_on_status
on_silent_limit = _continuous_on_silent_limit
if rec is None:
_debug("_continuous_on_silence: no recorder — abort")
return
if on_status:
try:
on_status("transcribing")
except Exception:
pass
wav_path = rec.stop()
# Peak RMS is the critical diagnostic when stop() returns None despite
# the VAD firing — tells us at a glance whether the mic was too quiet
# for SILENCE_RMS_THRESHOLD (200) or the VAD + peak checks disagree.
peak_rms = getattr(rec, "_peak_rms", -1)
_debug(
f"_continuous_on_silence: rec.stop -> {wav_path!r} (peak_rms={peak_rms})"
)
# CLI parity: double 660 Hz beep after the stream stops (safe from the
# CoreAudio conflict that blocks pre-start beeps).
_play_beep(frequency=660, count=2)
transcript: Optional[str] = None
if wav_path:
try:
result = transcribe_recording(wav_path)
# transcribe_recording returns {"success": bool, "transcript": str,
# "error": str?} — NOT {"text": str}. Using the wrong key silently
# produced empty transcripts even when Groq/local STT returned fine,
# which masqueraded as "not hearing the user" to the caller.
success = bool(result.get("success"))
text = (result.get("transcript") or "").strip()
err = result.get("error")
_debug(
f"_continuous_on_silence: transcribe -> success={success} "
f"text={text!r} err={err!r}"
)
if success and text and not is_whisper_hallucination(text):
transcript = text
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("continuous transcription failed: %s", e)
_debug(f"_continuous_on_silence: transcribe raised {type(e).__name__}: {e}")
finally:
try:
if os.path.isfile(wav_path):
os.unlink(wav_path)
except Exception:
pass
with _continuous_lock:
if not _continuous_active:
# User stopped us while we were transcribing — discard.
_debug("_continuous_on_silence: stopped during transcribe — no restart")
return
if transcript:
_continuous_no_speech_count = 0
else:
_continuous_no_speech_count += 1
should_halt = _continuous_no_speech_count >= _CONTINUOUS_NO_SPEECH_LIMIT
no_speech = _continuous_no_speech_count
if transcript and on_transcript:
try:
on_transcript(transcript)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("on_transcript callback raised: %s", e)
if should_halt:
_debug(f"_continuous_on_silence: {no_speech} silent cycles — halting")
with _continuous_lock:
_continuous_active = False
_continuous_no_speech_count = 0
if on_silent_limit:
try:
on_silent_limit()
except Exception:
pass
try:
rec.cancel()
except Exception:
pass
if on_status:
try:
on_status("idle")
except Exception:
pass
return
# Restart for the next turn.
_debug(f"_continuous_on_silence: restarting loop (no_speech={no_speech})")
_play_beep(frequency=880, count=1)
try:
rec.start(on_silence_stop=_continuous_on_silence)
except Exception as e:
logger.error("failed to restart continuous recording: %s", e)
_debug(f"_continuous_on_silence: restart raised {type(e).__name__}: {e}")
with _continuous_lock:
_continuous_active = False
return
if on_status:
try:
on_status("listening")
except Exception:
pass
# ── TTS API ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def speak_text(text: str) -> None:
"""Synthesize ``text`` with the configured TTS provider and play it.
The gateway spawns a daemon thread to call this so the RPC returns
immediately. Failures are logged and swallowed.
"""
if not text or not text.strip():
return
# Lazy import — tts_tool pulls optional provider SDKs.
from tools.tts_tool import text_to_speech_tool
try:
raw = text_to_speech_tool(text)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("TTS synthesis failed: %s", e)
return
try:
result = json.loads(raw) if isinstance(raw, str) else raw
except json.JSONDecodeError:
logger.warning("TTS returned non-JSON result")
return
if not isinstance(result, dict):
return
file_path = result.get("file_path")
if not file_path:
err = result.get("error") or "no file_path in TTS result"
logger.warning("TTS succeeded but produced no audio: %s", err)
return
play_audio_file(file_path)