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Voice: keep abbreviations inside a spoken sentence, and play speech at the speech server's own sample rate - #365
Two voice fixes. Part 1: voice mode streams a reply to the TTS sentence by sentence (phraseBoundary / speechBoundary in core/web/src/voice.ts). Two places cut a German reply where a reader would not. This takes over two ideas from the owner's sentence chunker in another project (sunilsch/INF24-Advanced-SWE#6) into Pithagoras' own code, with no new dependency.
What changes
Abbreviations are no sentence end.
The list is short and case-insensitive: mr, mrs, dr, prof, vs, etc, bzw, bspw, ca, usw, ggf, evtl, inkl, vgl, nr, abb, plus any single letter. The single letters cover "z. B.", "z.B.", "d. h.", "u. a." and "o. ä.".
A word that only ends like one ("Gebiet.", "Oma.") still ends a sentence.
Words that are real words or units ("20 ms.", "fig.") were left out on purpose.
Ordinals and dates are no sentence end. A one- or two-digit number with a dot is kept in the sentence in two cases:
when a lower-case word, a digit or a German month follows ("am 3. November");
after an article or a preposition such as am, im, vom, zum, der, den ("auf den 1. Platz", "im 3. Stock").
"Ich bin heute genau 25. Morgen …" still ends at 25. While the next word has not arrived yet, the cut waits, so a reply cuts the same whether it comes whole or in small pieces.
Long sentences are cut where a reader pauses. Past 220 characters without a sentence end, the cut is at the last ", ", "; " or ": " outside code, links and brackets. It falls back to the space only if no such mark sits at 40 characters or later; before, it cut at the first whitespace after 240.
Unchanged:
code fences and inline code;
links;
the three-word merge;
em dashes and CJK punctuation;
the 600-character safety cut.
docs/guide/voice.md says how replies are split.
Known trade-off: a sentence that ends in "usw." or "etc." is now spoken together with the next sentence. The pause comes a sentence late, and nothing is lost.
Checks
cd core/web && npx tsc -b: ok.
The voice unit tests (speech-display, voice, hands-free, speech-pipeline, voice-first, voice-commands, translated-text): 84 passed; tests/i18n.test.mts: 17 passed.
New tests in tests/speech-display.test.mts stream a reply through StreamingSpeech, both whole and in small steps:
German and English abbreviations and ordinals stay whole sentences.
Words that only end like an abbreviation, and real sentence ends ("20 ms.", "25. Morgen"), still cut.
A long sentence is cut at its last comma before 220, falls back to a space without one, and ignores the colon in "12:30".
With the old voice.ts, the new tests fail.
One review round (correctness, spec): 6 findings, 5 fixed and 1 declined with a reason.
The medium one: "1. Platz" and "im 3. Stock" were still cut. Fixed by the article and preposition rule.
Declined: usw. and etc. stay on the list.
Part 2: speech at the speech server's own sample rate
Until now speech played at 24 kHz only. The server refused every WAV that was not mono 24 kHz 16-bit, raw PCM was labelled 24 kHz, and the browser built its buffers at 24 kHz, so a speech server that answers at 44.1 kHz needed a resampling shim in front of it.
WAV (new core/server/src/wav.ts):
It takes the rate from the header (8 to 192 kHz).
It reads mono or stereo (stereo is mixed to mono), 16-bit integer, 32-bit float, and WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE with a PCM or float subformat.
The parse checks chunk sizes, the block size and whole frames. A refusal names what it got.
The body is read with a counter and cut off at 64 MB, also from a server that sends no length.
Raw PCM: the rate comes from the server's x-sample-rate header, else from a rate= on its content type, else from a new setting of the speech server in Voice servers, "Sample rate of raw audio" (24000 when empty, with a German entry). A channels= other than 1 is refused instead of playing at half speed.
The browser:
Every phrase carries its rate (X-Sample-Rate), and each buffer is made at that rate; the audio context resamples to its output.
Replay, the kept phrases and the time-stretch use the phrase's rate. The stretch's search scales with the rate, so 3 s at 1.5× takes about 15 ms at any rate up to 192 kHz.
Compatibility: a voice provider that names no rate still plays at 24 kHz, so the extension contract is unchanged. extensions/voice's own engine stays at 24 kHz.
Docs:voice.md, voice-servers.md, extension-ui.md, upgrading.md, reference/api.md, and the VoiceProvider comment in packages/extension-api.
For part 1: the sentence-cut regexes are written without lookbehind, since Safari before 16.4 cannot read it and tests/tool-args.test.mts checks for that.
Checks (part 2)
npx tsc -b (web) and tsc --noEmit (voice-servers and voice extensions): ok.
npm run check:boundaries and build:extensions: ok.
npm test -w core/server: 1622 passed, 0 failed.
The voice, voice-servers, pcm-stream and time-stretch tests and i18n: all pass.
The voice browser specs under the flock: 154 passed.
New tests fail with the old code. They cover:
the WAV parse at 44.1 and 48 kHz, stereo, float and extensible;
raw PCM by header, by content type, by the setting and by default;
the voice route against a fake speech server answering 44.1 kHz WAV, 48 kHz stereo float WAV, streamed 44.1 kHz PCM, and an answer with no end;
buffers and the time-stretch at 22.05, 44.1 and 48 kHz with a pitch check;
a browser spec in both pipelines.
The full root run had 3 failures that are not about voice:
two terminal shutdown tests, which fail alone too;
a media gallery paging test, which passes alone.
This PR's CI shows whether they fail on main as well.
One review round (correctness, spec): 5 findings.
Fixed: stereo raw PCM passed as mono (medium); the 64 MB cap only after the whole body was read (medium); the stretch's cost growing with the square of the rate.
Declined: two notes on commit trailers and the regex rewrite, which is now named above.
…es at a comma
The voice reply was cut at German abbreviations such as "bzw." or "ca." and
at "am 3. November". Those no longer end a phrase. A sentence that runs past
about 220 characters is now cut at its last comma, semicolon or colon before
falling back to a space.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Voice audio handling now supports WAV and PCM sample rates from 8,000 to 192,000 Hz. Raw PCM can use a configured fallback rate. Browser playback and time stretching use the audio rate. Sentence splitting recognizes more abbreviations and ordinal contexts, and adds punctuation-aware cuts for long text.
Changes: Voice audio formats and sample rates
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WAV decoding and voice API responses core/server/src/wav.ts, core/server/src/api/voice.ts, tests/voice.test.mts, core/server/test/voice-providers.test.mjs
The voice API now decodes supported WAV formats to mono PCM and returns their sample rate. WAV responses are limited to 64 MiB. PCM responses use validated channel metadata and rate selection. Tests cover supported formats and rejection cases.
Voice servers now accept PCM rates from response metadata or a configured raw-audio rate. The settings form and validation support rates from 8,000 through 192,000 Hz. Provider, route, and browser tests cover these changes.
Browser playback and time stretching now use the PCM sample rate. Recorded phrases retain that rate for repeat playback. Tests and fixtures cover rates and audio formats.
Audio format and rate documentation docs/guide/extension-ui.md, docs/guide/upgrading.md, docs/guide/voice-servers.md, docs/guide/voice.md, docs/reference/api.md, packages/extension-api/server.d.ts
The guides and API documentation describe supported WAV formats, PCM rate metadata, fallback rates, and voice response rates.
Speech sentence boundaries
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Summary
Boundary detection and validation core/web/src/voice.ts, tests/speech-display.test.mts, docs/guide/voice.md
The boundary logic checks more abbreviations and ordinal contexts. For long sentences, it prefers a comma, semicolon, or colon before falling back to whitespace. Tests cover these boundaries, and the playback guide documents them.
sequenceDiagram
participant SpeechServer
participant VoiceProvider
participant VoiceAPI
participant VoiceControl
SpeechServer->>VoiceProvider: Return WAV or PCM with rate metadata
VoiceProvider->>VoiceAPI: Forward audio at resolved rate
VoiceAPI->>VoiceControl: Return PCM with sample-rate header
VoiceControl->>VoiceControl: Prepare and play audio at that rate
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thecodacus/pithagoras#317: Both PRs change PCM response validation in the voice-servers provider and the related Breeze handling. The earlier PR requires 24 kHz PCM when a rate is specified; this PR accepts supported rates from metadata or configuration.
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Merge Risk: Low · up to fddc1
Some English replies can speak two sentences as one phrase. Both boundary cases are narrow and have localized corrections; the PR is mergeable with owner acceptance or a follow-up fix.
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- Line 84: Update ordinalDot and its caller to pass reply-completion state into
the boundary check. When the reply is complete and word[2] is empty, classify
the final capitalized word instead of returning undefined, while preserving the
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Resolve the ordinal boundary when the reply is complete.
For I am exactly 25. Go., word[2] is empty after Go.. ordinalDot returns undefined, so the completed reply is sent as one TTS phrase instead of two. Pass completion state to this check. When the reply is complete, classify the final capitalized word rather than leaving the boundary undecided. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update ordinalDot and its caller to pass reply-completion state into the
boundary check. When the reply is complete and word[2] is empty, classify the
final capitalized word instead of returning undefined, while preserving the
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A WAV is read at the rate its header gives (8 to 192 kHz, mono or stereo, 16-bit
integer or 32-bit float, also the extensible form) with a checked parse. Raw PCM
takes its rate from the server's x-sample-rate header or the rate= parameter of
its content type, else from a new setting of Voice servers, Sample rate of raw
audio (24000 by default). Each phrase carries its rate to the browser, which
makes the buffers, the replay and the time stretch at that rate. A provider that
says nothing about its rate is still taken to be at 24 kHz.
Also write the speech cuts' regexes without a lookbehind, which Safari before
16.4 cannot read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Voice servers refuses raw PCM that says it has more than one channel, as the
core does for a direct provider, instead of dropping the parameter and playing
it as mono at half speed. A WAV answer is counted as it is read and let go of at
64 MB, also where the source says no length. The time stretch compares and
searches more coarsely at higher rates (then refines), so the work for a second
of speech stays the same at 192 kHz as at 24 kHz.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Do not treat English I am as a German ordinal context.
BEFORE_ORDINAL also matches English am <number>. For Today I am 25. Then I leave now., ordinalDot returns true for the period after 25. The period is then not treated as a sentence end, and both sentences are delivered as one phrase.
Exclude English I am before the ordinal check. German dates such as am 3. November keep the current behavior.
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const BEFORE_ORDINAL = /(?:^|[^\p{L}\p{N}])(?:am|im|vom|zum|zur|beim|der|die|das|dem|den|des|ab|seit)\s+\d{1,2}$/iu;
+// English "I am 25." has the same shape and is not a German ordinal context.+const ENGLISH_AM = /(?:^|[^\p{L}\p{N}])I\s+am\s+\d{1,2}$/iu;
- if (BEFORE_ORDINAL.test(before)) return true;+ if (BEFORE_ORDINAL.test(before) && !ENGLISH_AM.test(before)) return true;
Add a regression test next to the German cases. Use a chunk with more than three spoken words before the period. phraseBoundary keeps a chunk of three or fewer words waiting, so I am 25. Then I leave. cannot show the collision on its own.
assert.deepEqual(phrases('Today I am 25. Then I leave now.'),['Today I am 25.','Then I leave now.']);
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Update the ordinal check using BEFORE_ORDINAL so English “I am” before an age
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Two voice fixes. Part 1: voice mode streams a reply to the TTS sentence by sentence (
phraseBoundary/speechBoundaryincore/web/src/voice.ts). Two places cut a German reply where a reader would not. This takes over two ideas from the owner's sentence chunker in another project (sunilsch/INF24-Advanced-SWE#6) into Pithagoras' own code, with no new dependency.What changes
Abbreviations are no sentence end.
Ordinals and dates are no sentence end. A one- or two-digit number with a dot is kept in the sentence in two cases:
"Ich bin heute genau 25. Morgen …" still ends at 25. While the next word has not arrived yet, the cut waits, so a reply cuts the same whether it comes whole or in small pieces.
Long sentences are cut where a reader pauses. Past 220 characters without a sentence end, the cut is at the last ", ", "; " or ": " outside code, links and brackets. It falls back to the space only if no such mark sits at 40 characters or later; before, it cut at the first whitespace after 240.
Unchanged:
docs/guide/voice.mdsays how replies are split.Known trade-off: a sentence that ends in "usw." or "etc." is now spoken together with the next sentence. The pause comes a sentence late, and nothing is lost.
Checks
cd core/web && npx tsc -b: ok.speech-display,voice,hands-free,speech-pipeline,voice-first,voice-commands,translated-text): 84 passed;tests/i18n.test.mts: 17 passed.tests/speech-display.test.mtsstream a reply throughStreamingSpeech, both whole and in small steps:voice.ts, the new tests fail.usw.andetc.stay on the list.Part 2: speech at the speech server's own sample rate
Until now speech played at 24 kHz only. The server refused every WAV that was not mono 24 kHz 16-bit, raw PCM was labelled 24 kHz, and the browser built its buffers at 24 kHz, so a speech server that answers at 44.1 kHz needed a resampling shim in front of it.
core/server/src/wav.ts):WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLEwith a PCM or float subformat.x-sample-rateheader, else from arate=on its content type, else from a new setting of the speech server in Voice servers, "Sample rate of raw audio" (24000 when empty, with a German entry). Achannels=other than 1 is refused instead of playing at half speed.X-Sample-Rate), and each buffer is made at that rate; the audio context resamples to its output.extensions/voice's own engine stays at 24 kHz.voice.md,voice-servers.md,extension-ui.md,upgrading.md,reference/api.md, and theVoiceProvidercomment inpackages/extension-api.tests/tool-args.test.mtschecks for that.Checks (part 2)
npx tsc -b(web) andtsc --noEmit(voice-servers and voice extensions): ok.npm run check:boundariesandbuild:extensions: ok.npm test -w core/server: 1622 passed, 0 failed.The voice, voice-servers, pcm-stream and time-stretch tests and i18n: all pass.
The voice browser specs under the flock: 154 passed.
New tests fail with the old code. They cover:
The full root run had 3 failures that are not about voice:
This PR's CI shows whether they fail on main as well.
One review round (correctness, spec): 5 findings.
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