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feat(transcription): transcribe every voice message automatically and keep the text beside the audio - #484

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Voice messages in the archive are audio only, so finding something said in one means playing every note. This builds the design in #483. Every voice message and round video is sent to a transcription server, and the text is stored beside the audio as a row that is never overwritten. The viewer shows the text in the bubble and searches it.

It works with akou, which can run on any host, and with any OpenAI-compatible transcription server. It is on by default. Until TRANSCRIPTION_URL is set, the only visible effect is a dismissible banner and a settings row pointing at akou.

  • Storage. Migration 032 adds the append-only media_transcripts table, one open row per media, and full-text search on SQLite and PostgreSQL.

  • Getting transcripts. The backup drains new and older media after its media sweeps, and the listener sends a downloaded voice message at once. With akou the backup submits a job keyed by the audio hash, then collects the result by signed callback, by akou's event feed, or by polling, so an archive akou cannot reach still gets every transcript. Other servers get a plain synchronous call.

  • Callback. The viewer verifies Standard Webhooks signatures, caps the body before reading it, and never calls out.

  • Viewer. A button beside the waveform shows the text under it, the same way the official apps do. It also shows loading and error states, which engine made the text, and a version picker. Round videos and screen-reader labels are covered.

  • Search and consumers. Chat and global search find a message by its transcript. Transcripts appear in the message API, both exports, the changes feed and the gallery's voice tab.

  • Logins with downloads disabled see no transcript text anywhere, since the text is the audio's content.

  • Moving to PostgreSQL. The SQLite-to-PostgreSQL migration now copies transcripts. It still drops avatar history, a gap that predates this PR and is tracked separately.

What it deletes. Transcript rows go with their media only on the removal paths an operator already turns on by flag, and the README rows say so. The pending-twin cleanup that runs on every backup keeps them.

What it overwrites. A transcript row's status, forwards only. It also overwrites two app_settings rows: the event cursor and the detected server's name and version.

What it forgets. The fields of a server answer it does not store, and the text of a server's error message. It keeps only the error code.

Full suite green on SQLite and PostgreSQL. The viewer image builds, and the app imports inside it with the callback route registered.

Slice 1 of docs/TRANSCRIPTION.md. The TRANSCRIPTION_* variables with a
validator that degrades instead of aborting, and a log_summary line that
prints the server's scheme and host only. Migration 032 adds the
append-only media_transcripts table with its two unique indexes (one
partial over the open statuses), the plain indexes and the transcript
search objects on both databases; the create_all() listener builds the
same objects so the schema parity gate stays empty. The adapter gains
insert-if-absent of a queued row, the fill rule (status advances, every
other column written once), the drain query with its retry rules, the
skipped row and the app_settings helpers.
Slice 2 of docs/TRANSCRIPTION.md. A client with the event webhook's
shape and its own timeouts detects the server once per run and sends
each voice message or round video to the OpenAI transcription endpoint,
storing the verbose_json answer in the same queued row. The drain runs
at the end of backup_all after the media sweeps and never fails the
backup; the listener transcribes a just-downloaded voice message at
once through the same function. Media over TRANSCRIPTION_MAX_SECONDS
gets a skipped row and no request; a media without a stored hash is
hashed at drain time and the key lives on the transcript row only. The
realtime TRANSCRIPT type carries ids and status, the viewer serves
GET /api/media/{media_id}/transcripts under the chat visibility rule,
and the page fetches the rows on that frame. The akou job path is left
as named stubs for slice 4, and httpx's request log is raised to
WARNING so no server URL reaches the container log.
- Test media rows now seed their chat and message first: PostgreSQL
  enforces fk_media_message and 21 [postgresql] cases were red.
- The validator no longer drops TRANSCRIPTION_CALLBACK_URL when the
  process has no TRANSCRIPTION_WEBHOOK_SECRET: the backup sends the URL
  and the viewer holds the secret, so each process sees one of them.
- The preset goes out as `model` only to akou; every other server gets
  whisper-1, since one that validates the field would refuse "auto" for
  good. transcribe() takes model= explicitly.
- A transport failure is transient: the row stays queued, the drain ends
  the run, and no failed row spends the cap of three. HTTP errors and a
  missing file still store a failed row.
- The slice-4 stubs, the JOB_PATH_IMPLEMENTED flag and the test that
  asserted they raise are gone; slice 4 adds the real methods.
- docs/TRANSCRIPTION.md states the model rule and the outage rule.
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This change adds configurable transcription for downloaded media. It adds transcript storage and search, synchronous and job-based processing, backup and listener scheduling, authenticated transcript routes, signed callbacks, realtime updates, and transcript controls in the viewer.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration and transcript storage
src/config.py, src/db/models.py, src/db/fts.py, tests/test_transcription_config.py, tests/test_migration_032.py, tests/test_createall_race.py
Configuration adds transcription defaults, validation, and summary logging. The database adds transcript records and SQLite and PostgreSQL full-text search support. Tests cover configuration and migration behavior.
Transcript queue and persistence operations
src/db/adapter.py, tests/test_media_transcripts.py
The adapter adds transcript enqueueing, guarded updates, skip handling, lookups, drain selection, job-outcome matching, settings storage, and an FTS readiness check. Tests cover queue and persistence operations.
Transcription processing and scheduling
src/transcription.py, src/transcription_contract.py, src/listener.py, src/telegram_backup.py, tests/test_transcription.py
The transcription client uses shared contract helpers for job outcomes, event cursors, webhook verification, and retry idempotency keys. The listener starts transcription for eligible downloaded media, and backup drains queued media.
Transcript search integration
src/db/adapter.py, tests/test_transcript_search.py, tests/test_web_routes.py
Global and chat searches include indexed transcript matches, deduplicate message results, and identify whether the message or transcript matched. Tests cover paging, scope, fallback behavior, and search indexes.
Transcript API and callback delivery
src/realtime.py, src/web/main.py, tests/test_transcription.py
The API adds transcript retrieval, status, and ask-now routes. The optional signed callback validates requests, applies outcomes, and broadcasts transcript updates without transcript text or storage media IDs.
Transcript viewer and documentation
src/web/templates/index.html, docs/TRANSCRIPTION.md, README.md, .env.example, docker-compose.yml, tests/test_transcription_bubble.py, tests/test_frontend_audit_fixes.py
The viewer adds transcript controls, rendering, saved expansion preferences, transcript-search highlighting, gallery filtering, and transcript change entries. Documentation and deployment examples describe transcription settings and behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 82750

Resolve the transcription drain and configuration failures before merging: they can prevent transcription from progressing or stop startup under the identified conditions. Large date-bounded exports also load transcripts outside their window.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 82750

Transcription introduces a new path for audio to leave the archive and for returned text to become searchable, persistent data. The callback has signature and size controls, and viewer reads are account-scoped, but a result can be applied to a pending transcript using an audio hash before that row is bound to a particular job.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: A signed job outcome is matched by the audio's bare hash across accounts and can close a newer or different pending attempt while its job_id is still NULL. Terminal write-once semantics make that assignment persistent; recorded terminal jobs and nonmatching populated job IDs limit, but do not eliminate, the pending-row case.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A configured server receives submitted audio, and its valid signed result can reach every open transcript row with the matching hash across accounts. The implementation does not show an unauthenticated arbitrary-write path; the maximum result-write scope is nevertheless broader than one account or one job attempt.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — If an older valid outcome is delivered while another attempt for the same hash remains unbound to a job, the hash-based fill may store that outcome in the pending row. Audio supplied through archived media can influence which hash is shared, but timing or control of a valid provider delivery is also required; exploitation and provider delivery guarantees are not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The callback substitutes a configured shared signing secret for viewer authentication. It rejects missing headers, excessive bodies, stale timestamps, and invalid signatures before parsing an event; it does not derive an account or submitted-job binding from the authenticated delivery.
  • observed — Viewer transcript attachment filters by account, and global transcript-search hits join through account-matched media and messages before chat-scope filtering. Those read controls do not constrain the earlier callback write.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Terminal rows and populated fields resist replay or overwrite, while a partial unique index restricts concurrent open attempts per account and media. These protections preserve stored results but cannot determine whether a result belonged to an unbound attempt.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind asynchronous outcomes to a recorded submission or attempt identity before closing rows, while making any deliberate identical-audio fanout explicit; define how callbacks arriving before submission persistence are reconciled.
  • proposed — Document the provider's job-ID, hash, and terminal-order guarantees and the intended ingress restrictions before relying on them for callback recovery and deployment.
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In `@docs/TRANSCRIPTION.md`:
- Line 5: Update the opening statement in the transcription design to
distinguish the implemented configuration, storage, and synchronous
transcription slices from the parts that remain proposed; do not describe the
entire design as unimplemented.
- Line 10: Update the documentation statement about transcription in the
transcript documentation so it no longer claims that nothing is overwritten.
Keep the new-row and media-row distinctions, and clarify that transcription
updates transcript status after insertion but does not delete transcript rows on
its own.

In `@src/config.py`:
- Line 991: Update Config initialization so TRANSCRIPTION_MAX_SECONDS and
TRANSCRIPTION_BACKFILL_PER_RUN are parsed only when transcription is enabled;
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TRANSCRIPTION_ENABLED is false.
- Line 1351: Catch ValueError at both URL parsing sites in the transcription
server URL and callback URL validators. Route malformed URLs through each
validator’s existing warning path, disabling transcription for the server URL
and falling back to polling for the callback URL.
- Line 1352: Update URL validation in the config flow containing `parsed.scheme`
so that a configured `TRANSCRIPTION_API_KEY` cannot be used with an HTTP
transcription URL; reject HTTP when the key is set while preserving existing URL
validation.

In `@src/db/models.py`:
- Around line 340-350: Add matching MediaTranscript deletions at each supported
media-deletion boundary—hard message deletion and the
SKIP_MEDIA_DELETE_EXISTING, YOUTUBE_VIDEOS_DELETE_EXISTING, and
EXCLUDE_DELETE_EXISTING paths—using the same account and media predicates as the
corresponding Media deletions. Keep delete_voice_note_audio_twins exempt so
transcripts remain available for reattachment.

In `@src/transcription.py`:
- Line 44: Update transcribe_media() so an in-flight transcription holds a lease
that prevents another worker or direct listener call from starting the same
request; keep the lease valid across retries, refreshing it as needed, and leave
transient request failures queued.
- Around line 193-195: Update the httpx.TransportError handler in
transcribe_media so read and write timeouts are recorded as failed rows rather
than transient outages, allowing them to use the three-row retry budget. Mark
only connection-related transport failures as transient, preserving the existing
unreachable behavior for those failures.

In `@src/web/templates/index.html`:
- Around line 5690-5698: In the transcript-fetch callback, prevent stale results
from updating messages after the user switches chats. Capture the selected
chat’s ref before the fetch, return if it differs when the callback runs, and
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if self.transcription_url:
parsed = urllib.parse.urlparse(self.transcription_url)
if parsed.scheme not in {"http", "https"} or not parsed.hostname:

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Require HTTPS for credential-bearing transcription requests. TranscriptionClient sends the configured Authorization: Bearer ... header and audio to the configured URL. Since src/config.py accepts http://, a network observer can read both values. Reject HTTP when TRANSCRIPTION_API_KEY is set, or prevent credential-bearing requests over HTTP.

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…ler poll

Slice 4 of docs/TRANSCRIPTION.md. When GET /v1/server names akou with
capabilities.jobs, the drain submits POST /v1/jobs with the audio's
SHA-256 as the Idempotency-Key and as metadata.content_hash, and branches
on the answer's status: queued or running store the job id, done stores
the row at once from the nested result or the result route, failed and
cancelled store a failed row. 422 callback_not_allowed fails the row,
warns once and ends the run; idempotency_conflict fails the row.

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app_settings and fills every open row whose idempotency_key is the
event's content_hash, so twins share one job and an unreachable callback
loses nothing; unknown event types are skipped and the cursor moves past
them. Open jobs older than ten minutes are polled; a row older than the
server's retention is failed with reason expired and resubmitted.

Deletes nothing. Overwrites only the events cursor in app_settings.
Forgets nothing: every outcome is a status advance or a fill of empty
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Slice 5 of docs/TRANSCRIPTION.md. POST /api/transcriptions/callback is
registered only when the viewer holds a usable whsec_ secret, which the
viewer's Config already reads with no Telegram credentials. It declares
no require_auth and uses no login limiter: the Standard Webhooks
signature is the authentication. Before parsing it refuses missing
headers (400), a Content-Length over 256 KiB and a streamed body over the
same cap (413), a timestamp outside five minutes and a signature that
matches none of the listed v1 values under a constant-time compare (401).

A genuine delivery fills every open row for data.metadata.content_hash
under the row rule, so a replay writes nothing even into a newer row for
the same audio; a result_url delivery writes nothing and is left to the
backup's straggler poll. Each filled row is pushed in-process through
handle_realtime_notification with ids and status only. The viewer makes
no outbound request. The event-to-data mapping and the signature check
live in src/transcription.py beside the reconcile that shares them.

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Slice 3 of docs/TRANSCRIPTION.md. A rounded-square button beside the
audio row and over the corner of a round video shows the six states:
no transcript, queued or running with a looping stroke, done collapsed,
done expanded with the text at full width (dir="auto", no cap) and an
attribution caption, the stored reason in grey, and the nudge when no
server is configured. A picker switches between done rows. Open state
is kept per message and expand-all per chat in localStorage.

The message page carries each media's rows. The bubble asks through
POST /api/chats/{ref}/media/{key}/transcripts, and API clients through
POST /api/media/{media_id}/transcripts: both insert one queued row with
no job id and no preset, or return the open one, and call nothing
outbound. The drain sends such a row at once and first, and fills its
preset when it picks it up. GET /api/transcription/status feeds the
settings row. The realtime frame drops the storage media id, which
spells the chat id; the browser refetches by chat ref.

Deletes nothing. Overwrites nothing: the pickup fills empty columns.
Forgets nothing.
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Do not load words and segments for the message-page attach.

list_transcripts_for_media_ids selects full MediaTranscript rows. _transcript_to_dict then runs json.loads on words and segments for every row. _attach_transcripts in src/web/main.py then drops both fields through _TRANSCRIPT_VIEW_FIELDS. The source comment says one transcript can hold thousands of entries.

Every message page, pinned list and date jump runs this lookup. On a page of voice notes with several versions each, most of the query and parse cost is data that is never returned. Select only the view columns, or defer words and segments, and build a slim dict for this path.

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             stmt = (
                 select(MediaTranscript)
+                .options(defer(MediaTranscript.words), defer(MediaTranscript.segments))
                 .where(and_(MediaTranscript.account_id == account_id, MediaTranscript.media_id.in_(wanted)))
                 .order_by(MediaTranscript.id.desc())
             )
             result = await session.execute(stmt)
             by_media: dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]] = {}
             for row in result.scalars():
-                by_media.setdefault(row.media_id, []).append(self._transcript_to_dict(row))
+                by_media.setdefault(row.media_id, []).append(self._transcript_summary_dict(row))

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Slice 6 of docs/TRANSCRIPTION.md. Chat search and global search build
their hit set as the UNION of two indexed key sets: message keys from the
messages index, and message keys reached from transcript hits through
media on (account_id, media_id). The message predicate stays untouched,
so the PostgreSQL plan still reads its GIN index, and the global helpers
keep paging by key: the walk takes each side's newest offset+limit+1 keys,
the sorted path materialises both, and a key found twice is one row.

Each hit carries matched_in, "transcript" when only a transcript found
it. The viewer opens that bubble and marks the words in the transcript
text, which now renders through v-html like message text. Without the
transcript search objects the transcript side is absent.

Deletes nothing. Overwrites nothing. Forgets nothing.
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Slice 7 of docs/TRANSCRIPTION.md. Both JSON exports carry every
transcript row under transcripts on the message whose media it
transcribes. /api/changes gains a transcript kind dated by completed_at,
one row per event across accounts. Gallery items carry media.transcript
and media.transcripts; the Voice tab shows the first line of the newest
transcript and gains a filter over name and transcript text.

delete_message, delete_media_for_chat, delete_media_records and
delete_chat_and_related_data remove the transcript rows of the media
they remove, in the same transaction; delete_voice_note_audio_twins
keeps them so they reattach by hash. The README gains the Voice
Transcription section, the env rows and the four amended delete rows;
.env.example and docker-compose.yml gain the variables and a commented
akou service pinned to 0.2.0. The design says it is implemented here.

Deletes: transcript rows, only through the four flag-gated paths that
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- The viewer image imports again: the stdlib-only akou contract (webhook
  signature, event data, job outcome, the fill) moves to
  src/transcription_contract.py, which Dockerfile.viewer now copies; a test
  imports src.web.main under python -S from the image's COPY set with every
  package outside the viewer-runtime group refused.
- A retry on the job path gets a new akou job: the Idempotency-Key is the
  hash on a media's first attempt and <hash>.<n> after n done or failed
  rows; metadata and the idempotency_key column stay the bare hash.
- The dense-term search walk dedups the transcript side, so a media
  transcribed twice no longer hides older hits.
- Ask-now answers 409 for a media not downloaded or of a type no server
  transcribes, and the bubble shows the reason; an asked row passes the
  drain's type filter.
- delete_media_records keeps transcripts unless with_transcripts=True,
  which only the YOUTUBE_VIDEOS_DELETE_EXISTING cleanup passes.
- The changes feed's text rule is correlated to the outer row; it matched
  any row before, so different transcripts of one shared message
  collapsed into one change.
- The CLI export keys transcripts by account as well.
- The bubble drops a late answer after a chat switch.
- A transcript-only search hit says so in the sidebar.
- Docs: removal inventory, no reattach by hash, the per-attempt key, the
  unpublished akou image and its bind settings.
- New tests for the twin fill with no job id, the cursor after a crash
  and the chat bound of chat search.
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akou's GET /v1/events answers {events, cursor, has_more} with an integer
cursor and refuses a non-integer after. The parser read a next_cursor that
akou never sends and fell back to the last event's msg_ id, so the second
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A webhook-timestamp of hundreds of digits parsed as an int and then
overflowed the float comparison with the clock, so an unauthenticated
request made the route answer 500. Timestamps are now at most 12 digits
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A synchronous request the server took and never answered (a read or
write timeout) now spends a failed row and ends the run, so a message the
server always times out on stops after three tries instead of being
resent forever; the job path keeps it queued for the same-key resubmit.
An unreadable audio file is a failed row, not an aborted drain, and an
ask-now row is marked picked up before the file is read. A malformed
bracketed URL degrades instead of aborting the config, the numeric
settings are read only when the feature is on, and a windowed viewer
export reads only the transcript rows of the messages it exports. The
design doc drops the old fetch route and qualifies the no-overwrite line.
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The straggler poll expired a row retain_days after it was inserted, so a
row that waited queued through an outage was marked expired the moment
it got its job, while akou still held the job. A job_stored_at column,
stamped once when the job id is first written, now drives both the
ten-minute straggler rule and the expiry; migration 032 creates it and
adds it to a table an earlier build made. The open-job branch of the
submit no longer writes a job id another row of the same media holds,
so a resubmit cannot trip the unique index and abort the drain.
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The per-message open state in localStorage grew with every bubble ever
pressed; it now keeps the 500 most recently pressed, newest last. The
Voice tab filter kept the text typed in one chat when the gallery opened
in another, hiding that chat's items; it now starts empty there.
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The voice/audio twin cleanup removes the audio row and keeps its
transcript, which then showed nowhere, and the surviving voice row was
sent to the server again. The viewer now shows, on a media with no rows
of its own, the done rows of the same account for the same audio (its
content_hash as the rows' idempotency_key), and the drain query skips
such a media. Only the read path and the drain query change; nothing is
copied, moved or deleted. Search and the exports still read by media.
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- A refusal about the server or its config (401, 403, 429,
  preset_unavailable, callback_not_allowed, a 5xx on the job path)
  keeps the row queued and ends the run instead of spending the cap
  of three failed rows; the same answers from the feed or the poll
  end the run before the submit step.
- A POST the server took and never answered is sent once, not three
  times; a sync 5xx still spends a failed row but ends the run.
- On the job path, open jobs count against the per-run limit, so the
  open rows and the straggler poll stop growing on a slow server.
- The drain query reads ask-now rows on their own, so the type filter
  can use idx_media_type on PostgreSQL.
- words or segments that are not a list, or an event type that is
  not a string, read as empty instead of halting the feed or 500-ing
  the callback.
- The PostgreSQL move copies media_transcripts and resets its id
  sequence; a test checks that every ORM table is copied or listed.
- A no-download login gets no transcript text, search hit, changes
  entry or transcript route; the bubble hides the button.
- The sync request asks for segment timestamps as well as word.
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Version bump and changelog for 8.16.0: voice transcription through akou or any OpenAI-compatible server (#484, #485, #486, #488), migration 032. The commented akou service pins drumsergio/akou:0.2.1.
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… keep the text beside the audio (#484)

Voice messages in the archive were audio only. Every voice message and round video is now sent to akou or any OpenAI-compatible server, the text is stored beside the audio as append-only rows (migration 032), shown in the bubble behind a button like the official apps, and found by chat and global search, exports, the changes feed and the gallery. With akou the backup submits a job keyed by the audio hash and collects the result by a Standard Webhooks callback, the event feed or polling. On by default; until TRANSCRIPTION_URL is set the viewer only shows a banner. Transcript rows are removed only with their media on the operator flag-gated removal paths.
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Version bump and changelog for 8.16.0: voice transcription through akou or any OpenAI-compatible server (#484, #485, #486, #488), migration 032. The commented akou service pins drumsergio/akou:0.2.1.
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