- Captions read message bodies only (the scraper was concatenating
avatar, author and worklog chips); multi-segment interim turns are
now speakable and drive clean speak-to-thinking-to-speak cycles when
playback drains mid-turn.
- Dynamic endpointing: complete-looking partials (3+ words or terminal
punctuation) endpoint at the base window; the long hold remains only
for one-two-word fragments. A stale-busy 10s settle wait on every
post-error send is gone.
- Both overlay captions are bounded, touch-scrollable regions with
follow-tail; caps raised for long turns.
- Error envelopes are never spoken or captioned; errored turns run
resyncCapture (fresh STT session on the hot mic).
- Workspace toggle now lives in the sidebar rail (floating button only
below the rail breakpoint).
- False 'session unavailable' toast root-caused: the router continuity
guard shows it on a 409 that fired when a transient profile-listing
failure failed closed into a fake cross-profile mismatch; the patcher
now answers from the alias cache and never claims a default-vs-named
mismatch while aliases are unconfirmed.
- Barge-in sends carry a one-line cut-point marker with the last spoken
sentence; visible-history truncation judged infeasible client-side.
- Language switching works end-to-end: sticky per-session STT language
hint (restarting an unused next session on switch), reply voice from
script evidence, STT detection, then stopword heuristic; cues and WAV
fallback share the turn language.
- Legacy CI guards: node skip for the DOM probe, ffmpeg/codec skips for
the container-fallback test. 272 voice-lane tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BvMSXH8VH2tMWXanb8SJdf
Three conversational fixes for hands-free chat:
- The microphone now stays hot for the whole session: capture runs on
its own epoch, re-arms immediately after each utterance endpoints,
and keeps recording through transcribing/thinking/speaking - speech
is never lost to Hermes being busy. Speech onset during a response
cancels it through the live capture path (echo-guarded exactly like
the old monitor) without touching the running recorder.
- When the user talks over Hermes before any visible reply appeared,
the interrupted utterance and the follow-up are stitched into one
message (20s window), so the response addresses the whole thought.
- TTS speaks 15% faster by default (server-side length_scale, no pitch
shift), user-tunable via hermes-voice-tts-speed (0.5-2.0), honored on
streaming, WAV fallback and thinking-cue paths.
245 voice-lane tests pass; single getUserMedia site preserved;
Dockerfile grep guards verified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BvMSXH8VH2tMWXanb8SJdf
Port the original #27 detected-language pipeline onto the verified PR #39 prerequisite while preserving the current-main conversation instrument and host continuity changes.
Keep voice selection server-side with no user selector or client voice field. Reuse 207c16ab only for its stricter exact-code trust boundary, omitting malformed or absent language so Piper defaults to Amy.
Supersede draft PR #26 with a merge-safe prerequisite: bake and preload the amy, irina, and claude Piper models, route only validated server-side language to fixed voices, and leave the live voice deployment manifest unchanged.
Remove the pinned WebUI speaker selector and its persisted preference, omit client voice fields from every outbound TTS path, and keep hands-free Voice Mode and the conversation instrument intact. Hostile or legacy voice fields remain ignored by the Piper server.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
