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This PR is two commits: the defects, then the de-duplication they exposed.

1. Two defects, both found while porting this month's work into zyx, both live in BOTH copies

The samples do not start at byte 44. Measured with start()'s own argv on macOS: ffmpeg writes a 26-byte LIST/INFO chunk between fmt and data, so the first sample is at 78. trim_trailing_quiet read 34 bytes of that metadata as audio and cut every clip 34 bytes early; tail_dbfs measured its "have you stopped talking" window from the wrong floor. data_offset() walks the chunks instead, and works on a file ffmpeg is still appending to.

ours() guarded ADOPTING a server and not SENDING to one. That is the wrong half: the port is predictable, so a process that binds it first is handed every clip you record and believed about what was in it - and what comes back is typed at your cursor. transcribe_warm asks first now; the answer is cached, so the partial path pays a dict read and a pgrep twice a minute.

2. One copy of the speech core

Those two bugs were in both repos because ~450 lines were in both repos. murmurflow/speech.py is that layer now - the wav on disk, what a sample measures, every threshold with its measurement, and the transcript rules - and it is byte-identical in zyx's core/speech.py (ZyxWorks/zyx#1283).

  • It reads no configuration, and that is what makes one copy possible: the floors are arguments, because the two tools name their settings differently (quietFloor against voiceQuietFloor) and one line that has to differ is a file that is no longer shared. A test in each repo pins it.
  • The enforcement is a digest, not a habit: voice-core.sha256 (both repos carry the same number), a test that fails the moment the file is edited, and make voice-sync - run from the zyx checkout - named in the failure.
  • What is NOT shared, and this suite caught it during the refactor: the whole-line hallucination blocklist. The shared table holds only what a person never says - subtitle credits and audio markers, in every language whisper invents them in. "thank you", "you", "so", "bye" stay out of it and stay out of MurmurFlow, because this tool types what a person says and a swallowed sentence reads as broken hardware. zyx passes them in as its own extras, which is right there for the opposite reason. A new test fails if one of those words ever reaches the shared table.

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ruff clean, mypy clean, 213 tests pass. New: a wav shaped exactly like the recorder's own (LIST chunk and all), a transcribe_warm that refuses to open a socket when nothing of ours holds the port, the digest check, the no-configuration check, and the blocklist check.

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  • New Features

    • Added more consistent hold-to-record and double-tap gesture handling.
    • Improved microphone selection and support for language-aware transcription.
    • Added automatic trimming of trailing silence from recordings.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of incomplete or malformed audio files.
    • Reduced incorrect transcript endings caused by silence or generated boilerplate.
    • Improved recording cleanup and recovery after interrupted sessions.
  • Refactor

    • Consolidated audio recording, transcription, and gesture behavior for more consistent results.

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Two defects, both found while porting this month's work into zyx, and both live
in both copies.

THE SAMPLES DO NOT START AT BYTE 44. Measured with `start()`'s own argv on
macOS: ffmpeg writes a 26-byte LIST/INFO chunk between `fmt ` and `data`, so the
first sample is at 78. `trim_trailing_quiet` was reading 34 bytes of encoder
metadata as audio and cutting every clip 34 bytes early, and `tail_dbfs` was
measuring its "have you stopped talking" window from the wrong floor.
`data_offset` walks the chunks instead, and works on a file ffmpeg is still
appending to, because only the two SIZE fields are left for an exit that may
never come.

`ours()` GUARDED ADOPTING A SERVER AND NOT SENDING TO ONE, which is the wrong
half. The port is predictable, so a process that binds it first is handed every
clip you record and believed about what was in it - and what comes back is typed
at your cursor. `transcribe_warm` asks first now; the answer is cached, so the
partial path pays a dict read and a `pgrep` twice a minute.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J3aFkYVLa3FpjYmpiD4g5V
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The change adds shared speech and gesture modules. dictate, hotkey, and cli delegate to these modules. Tests validate shared-file contracts, WAV handling, server ownership, transcription, device selection, and gesture behavior.

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Shared speech and gesture core

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Shared speech, audio, and transcription implementation
murmurflow/speech.py
The new module implements WAV processing, audio analysis, transcript cleanup, warm-server lifecycle, transcription, device selection, and recording state.
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murmurflow/dictate.py
dictate re-exports shared entities and delegates recording, transcription, device selection, punctuation repair, and ownership operations to speech.
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murmurflow/gesture.py, murmurflow/hotkey.py
Gesture polling, chord detection, hold timing, double-tap handling, shutdown, and callback protection move into gesture; hotkey supplies platform adapters.
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murmurflow/cli.py, tests/test_murmurflow.py, tests/test_voice_contract.py, voice-contract.json, voice-core.sha256
CLI helpers and language validation use speech. Tests cover the integrations, WAV edge cases, ownership checks, shared-file hashes, and shared-core restrictions.

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In `@murmurflow/dictate.py`:
- Line 956: Update the transcribe_warm ownership check around ours() so cached
process ownership is used only for availability, not authorization. Authenticate
the current listening endpoint with an authenticated local transport or complete
authentication before transmitting the multipart audio body, preventing
recordings from being sent to a replacement process that reused the port.
- Line 956: Update the audio-send guard around ours() to resolve the configured
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…e zyx carries

The extraction that produced this repo left ~450 lines living in two places: the
wav on disk, what a sample measures, every threshold with its measurement, and
the transcript rules. `voice-contract.json` pinned the MEASUREMENTS and did its
job - no threshold drifted. Everything around them did, and the same two bugs
had to be found twice.

`murmurflow/speech.py` is that layer now, and it is byte-identical in zyx's
`core/speech.py`. It reads NO configuration - the floors are arguments, because
the two tools name their settings differently (`quietFloor` against
`voiceQuietFloor`) and one line that has to differ is a file that is no longer
shared. Enforced: a digest in `voice-core.sha256` that both repos carry, a test
that fails the moment the file is edited, and `make voice-sync` (run from zyx)
that copies it and rewrites both digests.

WHAT IS NOT SHARED, and this suite caught it during the refactor: the whole-line
hallucination blocklist. The shared table holds only what a PERSON NEVER SAYS -
subtitle credits and audio markers, in every language whisper invents them in.
"thank you", "you", "so", "bye" stay out of it and stay out of MurmurFlow: this
tool types what a person says, so a swallowed sentence reads as broken hardware.
zyx passes them in as its own extras, which is right there for the opposite
reason. `deliberately_divergent.hallucination_list` is a parameter now, not a
paragraph, and a new test fails if one of those words ever reaches the table.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J3aFkYVLa3FpjYmpiD4g5V
@hannesreinsch hannesreinsch changed the title fix(dictate): the header is measured, and the port is checked before audio goes to it Two defects fixed, and one copy of the speech core Sep 9, 2026
…t path is shared

Everything from the key to the transcript is one implementation now, byte-identical
with zyx's copy of it: `speech.py` (the wav on disk, the recorder, the warm server,
the transcribe path, the thresholds, the transcript rules, `resolve_bin`,
`pick_input`) and `gesture.py` (the intent delay, the chord abort, the press-to-press
pairing, the tap/hold line). 1,519 lines that were living twice.

The seam is arguments and never configuration: `speech.Setup` for the engine,
`capture=` for this platform's own ffmpeg input args, `held()`/`since_keydown()` for
the key. So the shared files know nothing about dshow, avfoundation, `quietFloor` or
`voiceQuietFloor` - which is exactly what lets them be the same bytes - and the
platform package keeps doing the job it was extracted for.

WHAT THE MOVE FOUND, in each direction:
- `ours()` guarded adopting a server and not sending to one (fixed in the commit
  before this one, in both);
- the samples start at byte 78, not 44 (same);
- MurmurFlow's hold floor slept its REMAINDER and zyx's slept the whole floor again,
  so zyx's shortest holds took nearly twice as long to answer. This repo's own test
  pinned the better one and now pins it for both;
- "Mikrofon" was matched here and not there.

Deliberately still two: `bind_trigger` (the hint it returns is the product's own
words), `transcribe`'s cold fallback, `Result`, `_cfg`.

Enforcement: `voice-core.sha256` carries a digest per shared file, a parametrised test
fails the moment either is edited alone, and a second test forbids configuration
inside them. `make voice-sync` is run from the zyx checkout and writes both repos.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J3aFkYVLa3FpjYmpiD4g5V
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