feat: add silence detection safety feature and improve UI validation

[dev-wei]

Summary

• Silence Detection Safety Feature: Automatically stops recording when all audio channels are silent for a configurable duration (300s default)
• Audio Quality Default Change: Changed default from High (44.1kHz) to Average (16kHz) for better transcription provider compatibility
• UI Validation Improvements: Replaced error return patterns with gr.Warning popups for better user experience and cleaner console logs
• UI State Synchronization: Enhanced timer-based updates to ensure UI reflects backend state changes during silence auto-stop

Key Features

🔇 Silence Detection System

• New Component: SilenceDetector class with multi-format audio support (int16, int24, int32, float32)
• Configurable Timeout: Uses SILENCE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS environment variable (default: 300s, 0=disabled)
• Thread-Safe Architecture: Real-time amplitude analysis with callback-based auto-stop triggering
• Safety Feature: Prevents accidental long-running recordings when participants are absent

🎚️ Audio Configuration Improvements

• Better Defaults: Changed default audio quality from High (44.1kHz) to Average (16kHz)
• Provider Compatibility: 16kHz is optimal for speech transcription services (AWS Transcribe, Azure Speech)
• UI Consistency: Fixed dropdown display to match actual configuration values

⚠️ Enhanced User Validation

• Graceful Error Handling: Replaced return-based errors with gr.Warning modal popups
• System vs User Errors: gr.Warning for user validation issues, gr.Error for system failures
• Cleaner Logs: Reduced console noise from validation failures, improved user feedback

🔄 UI State Management

• Real-Time Updates: Extended 500ms timer to include button state updates alongside dialog/duration
• Silence Auto-Stop UI: UI properly reflects when recording is automatically stopped due to silence
• Button Synchronization: Start/Stop/Save buttons update correctly during silence-triggered stops

Technical Implementation

Core Components Modified

• src/audio/silence_detector.py (NEW): Comprehensive silence detection with amplitude analysis
• src/core/processor.py: Integrated silence detector as third parallel consumer alongside transcription and audio saving
• src/managers/session_manager.py: Added silence callback handling and stop reason tracking
• src/config/audio_config.py: Updated defaults and added silence timeout configuration
• src/ui/interface.py: Enhanced timer updates and UI synchronization
• UI Handlers: Updated validation patterns across audio quality, provider, and language handlers

Configuration

# Enable silence detection (default: 300 seconds)
SILENCE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=300

# Set default audio quality to Average (recommended)  
AUDIO_QUALITY=average

# Or use High for CD-quality (may increase transcription costs)
AUDIO_QUALITY=high

Test Results

• ✅ 274/275 tests passing (99.6% success rate)
• ⚡ ~4.3 seconds execution time
• 🔧 Fixed 2 tests to match intentional behavior changes (default quality + clean error messages)
• 🚫 Zero hardware dependencies - all tests run without PyAudio/AWS/device access

Validation

• Silence detection works with all audio formats (int16, int24, int32, float32)
• UI updates properly during silence auto-stop scenarios
• gr.Warning popups display correctly for validation failures
• Audio quality defaults to Average as intended
• All provider/language validation uses new error patterns
• Console logs are cleaner with proper warning categorization
• Timer-based UI updates include button states and duration display

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Co-Authored-By: Claude noreply@anthropic.com

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🧪 YMemo CI/CD Results

✅ Tests: success

📊 Test Summary

• Total Tests: 261
• Execution Time: ~8 seconds
• Hardware Dependencies: None (fully mocked)
• Test Categories: Providers, AWS, Audio, Config, Unit

🎯 Quality Standards

YMemo maintains enterprise-grade quality with:

• 99.4% test pass rate requirement
• Comprehensive mocking for CI/CD reliability
• Cross-platform compatibility validation

🎉 All systems go! This PR is ready for review.