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WalkthroughThe PR adds a dictation feature with on-device speech recognition and recorded-audio transcription. It adds browser recording, volume analysis, dictation controllers, UI controls, and composer integration for chat, agents, channels, and collapsed inputs. It adds a Whisper-backed transcription crate and authenticated document-storage endpoint. Tests cover browser behavior, controller lifecycles, API requests, validation, cancellation, limits, and composer send blocking. Documentation describes the new interactions. Priority: ➖ Normal Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR should not merge yet: its dependency check fails, and callers can submit recordings longer than the documented limit for billable processing. The API and frontend query integrations also need correction. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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In `@apps/web/src/lib/queries/dictation/transcribe.ts`:
- Line 9: Move the direct transcribeDictation call from transcribeAudio into an
uncached TanStack Query mutation in the dictation queries package, then update
composer-dictation and the composer controller integration to invoke that
mutation function for uploads. Preserve the existing audio, language, and
abort-signal inputs while ensuring no network request remains outside TanStack
Query.
In `@crates/dictation/Cargo.toml`:
- Around line 7-12: Add the generated workspace-hack dependency to the dictation
manifest, using the repository’s standard Hakari generation workflow (just
hakari or cargo x deps from the root) so the resulting generated dependency
changes are committed and cargo x deps --check passes.
In `@crates/dictation/src/domain.rs`:
- Line 121: Update the recording validation flow in domain.rs to enforce a
maximum five-minute media duration before calling
provider.transcribe(recording). Derive and validate duration from the uploaded
audio contents using trusted server-side parsing rather than client-supplied
metadata, while preserving the existing empty and MAX_AUDIO_BYTES checks.
In `@services/document_storage_service/src/api/dictation.rs`:
- Line 34: Update the response list on the dictation endpoint to include HTTP
status 415, matching the UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE response returned by
TranscribeError::into_response for UnsupportedAudio; preserve all existing
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| signal: AbortSignal | ||
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| const result = await transcribeDictation(audio, language, signal); |
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Route transcription through a TanStack Query mutation.
transcribeAudio calls transcribeDictation directly. apps/web/src/features/dictation/composer-dictation.ts passes this function to the composer controller, so confirmation starts the upload outside TanStack Query. Move the upload into a mutation in the queries package and use its mutation function from the controller. Keep the mutation uncached.
As per path instructions: “All network calls to service clients MUST go through TanStack Query in the queries package.”
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In `@apps/web/src/lib/queries/dictation/transcribe.ts` at line 9, Move the direct
transcribeDictation call from transcribeAudio into an uncached TanStack Query
mutation in the dictation queries package, then update composer-dictation and
the composer controller integration to invoke that mutation function for
uploads. Preserve the existing audio, language, and abort-signal inputs while
ensuring no network request remains outside TanStack Query.
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Add the generated workspace-hack dependency.
dictation is a workspace member and is not listed in the Hakari traversal exclusions. Since its manifest does not declare workspace-hack, cargo x deps --check records stale member manifests and exits with an error.
Run just hakari or cargo x deps from the repository root, then commit the generated changes.
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In `@crates/dictation/Cargo.toml` around lines 7 - 12, Add the generated
workspace-hack dependency to the dictation manifest, using the repository’s
standard Hakari generation workflow (just hakari or cargo x deps from the root)
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| /// Validate and transcribe. Authentication is required by the inbound adapter; | ||
| /// dictation deliberately never consumes chat credits or checks subscriptions. | ||
| pub async fn transcribe(&self, recording: Recording) -> Result<String, DictationError> { | ||
| if recording.bytes.is_empty() || recording.bytes.len() > MAX_AUDIO_BYTES { |
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official OpenAI Audio API speech-to-text Whisper file size duration limits and pricing documentation
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The OpenAI Audio API provides multiple speech-to-text options with varying limits and pricing. Whisper-1 The standard legacy Whisper-1 model has a maximum file size limit of 25 MB per request [1][2]. There is no explicit maximum duration limit for this model; however, files must remain under the 25 MB size constraint [3][4]. To process longer audio, you must split the file into chunks of 25 MB or less [1][5][6]. Supported file formats include mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpga, m4a, wav, and webm [1][7]. The cost for Whisper-1 transcription is $0.006 per minute [8][7]. Newer Transcription Models Newer transcription models, such as gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, may have different validation rules, including duration or token limits [2][9]. For instance, some newer models have been noted to have a duration limit, such as 1500 seconds (25 minutes) [3]. Users should consult the specific model documentation when using these alternatives [2][9]. Pricing Summary - Whisper-1: $0.006 per minute [8][7] - gpt-4o-transcribe: $0.006 per minute [10] - gpt-4o-mini-transcribe: $0.003 per minute [10] - gpt-realtime-whisper: $0.017 per minute [11][10][12] For all endpoints, you must send the actual audio file in a supported format; the API does not support sending links to external audio files [2][9]. Streaming is supported for some newer use cases, but note that it is not available for the legacy whisper-1 model [2][9].
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- 1: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/speech-to-text
- 2: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7031512-audio-api-faq
- 3: https://community.openai.com/t/gpt4-0-transcribe-max-1500-seconds/1306684
- 4: https://community.openai.com/t/whisper-api-limits-transcriptions/167507
- 5: https://community.openai.com/t/whisper-api-how-to-upload-file-that-larger-than-25mb/693285
- 6: https://community.openai.com/t/whisper-maximum-content-size-limit-exceeded/83925/7
- 7: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis/
- 8: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/whisper-1
- 9: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7031512
- 10: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing
- 11: https://openai.com/api/pricing/
- 12: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-realtime-whisper
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Enforce the five-minute limit on the server.
The five-minute limit exists only in the browser recorder. The service validates only the 8 MiB byte limit, so an authenticated caller can submit supported, low-bitrate audio that is longer than five minutes. Whisper-1 has a 25 MiB file limit but no documented five-minute duration limit, and its pricing is duration-based.
Validate the media duration before provider.transcribe(recording). Do not trust duration metadata supplied by the client. The global semaphore limits concurrent requests, but it does not limit the processing time or cost of one request.
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flow in domain.rs to enforce a maximum five-minute media duration before calling
provider.transcribe(recording). Derive and validate duration from the uploaded
audio contents using trusted server-side parsing rather than client-supplied
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| /// Transcribe a transient recording with OpenAI Whisper. Does not consume chat credits. | ||
| #[utoipa::path(post, path = "/dictation/transcribe", tag = "dictation", | ||
| request_body(content = Vec<u8>, content_type = "audio/webm"), | ||
| responses((status = 200, body = TranscribeResponse), (status = 400), (status = 401), (status = 413), (status = 429), (status = 502)))] |
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Document the HTTP 415 response.
TranscribeError::into_response returns UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE for UnsupportedAudio, but the OpenAPI response list omits status 415. Add status 415 so generated clients model this reachable response.
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- responses((status = 200, body = TranscribeResponse), (status = 400), (status = 401), (status = 413), (status = 429), (status = 502)))]
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| responses((status = 200, body = TranscribeResponse), (status = 400), (status = 401), (status = 413), (status = 429), (status = 502)))] | |
| responses((status = 200, body = TranscribeResponse), (status = 400), (status = 401), (status = 413), (status = 415), (status = 429), (status = 502)))] |
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In `@services/document_storage_service/src/api/dictation.rs` at line 34, Update
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This is a good idea and may be the best way to do it long term. As a first pass, trying to do both local and server-side transcription gated on client capability seems like a recipe for really hard to find bugs.
Could we either:
- Only enable this for chrome and local transcription
or - Always use the DSS path to do transcription on any device (I recommend this option)
I think either of these changes would let us iterate on this in a sane way.
I also have concerns about sending audio to DSS. I think this could cause performance issues in DSS. Probably fine for now, but will need to be it's own service soon (@whutchinson98 take a look).
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this looks sus. Seems like there's probably a lib that does this in a more robust / cross-browser / cross-device way.
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Looks like this browser feature is unsupported on Safari and Firefox. This seems like another place to use a good library. There's probably a library that just Polyfills this api for Safari and Firefox
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If we're already using non-cross-platform API's we can use the SpeechRecognition api to do transcription
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This is a good idea and may be the best way to do it long term. As a first pass, trying to do both local and server-side transcription gated on client capability seems like a recipe for really hard to find bugs.
Could we either:
- Only enable this for chrome and local transcription
or - Always use the DSS path to do transcription on any device (I recommend this option)
I think either of these changes would let us iterate on this in a sane way.
I also have concerns about sending audio to DSS. I think this could cause performance issues in DSS. Probably fine for now, but will need to be it's own service soon (@whutchinson98 take a look).
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…async-openai Whisper - Split crates/dictation into domain (models/ports/service), inbound (axum router) and outbound (Whisper adapter) behind feature flags. - Detect the audio container from the bytes with infer instead of trusting the client Content-Type; LanguageHint newtype for the hint. - Read OPENAI_API_KEY through a macro_env_var newtype and call Whisper through async-openai (audio feature) with a bounded retry budget. - Require a signed-in user (UserOnly) and rate limit each user to 60 transcriptions per hour with the shared rate_limit middleware. - Move the DSS endpoint into the crate's inbound router; wire router state, Redis limiter, and swagger schema in the composition root. - Regenerate workspace-hack and dependency closures. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
…t-driven tests - Add AudioRecorder: constructed with the callbacks that receive levels, the finished recording, limit, and errors; only one instance holds the microphone at a time. Levels come from @solid-primitives/stream and every MediaRecorder chunk advances both the timeline and the duration cap, so the recorder has no timers. - Primitives take a recorder factory instead of start-recording and volume-meter functions; confirm() returns a promise that settles when text is committed or the attempt is abandoned. - Replace the 3s finish fallback with a second confirm that commits the words recognized so far. - Rewrite tests around explicit recorder/recognizer events: no fake timers, advanceTimersByTime, or Promise.resolve flushes. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
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Keep the native Darwin node_modules hash and touch dictation fixtures so cloud-storage and Nix hash workflows run on HEAD. Co-authored-by: Wolf Mermelstein <wolf@404wolf.com>
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…test The upload used a per-recording MutationObserver purely as a retry scheduler, then opted out of every mutation feature to keep audio and transcripts out of the cache. Replace it with a retry loop: same capacity-only policy, same backoff and jitter, same cancellation, and the recording is now structurally incapable of reaching a store. The rate limit test asserted only that a fake returning Exceeded produces a 429. Counting, windows, and rollback belong to the rate_limit crate's own tests; what this adapter owns is the key and the allowance, which nothing checked. Record both in the fake and assert users get separate buckets — dropping the user id from the key now fails.
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Adds Whisper dictation to AI chat, agent prompts, channel messages, thread replies, and the collapsed mobile composer. Every supported browser records locally and uploads only when the user confirms. Confirmation appends plain text to the existing draft without sending it; cancel preserves the draft and releases the microphone. Chrome's native speech recognition, language-pack handling, and local/cloud selection are removed.
The frontend uses a callback-based
AudioRecorderwith singleton microphone ownership and@solid-primitives/streamfor volume analysis. Composer handoff, permission cancellation, device termination, final chunks, and upload cancellation have explicit cleanup paths. Deadlines use elapsed time independently of delayed recording chunks. Tests drive recorder events, deferred operations, and an injected scheduler, without sleeps or promise-flush timing.DSS owns authenticated
POST /dictation/transcribein the hexagonaldictationcrate:UserOnlyauthentication and rate-limit extractors require a signed-in user and allow 60 attempts per user per hour, including failed requests and retries.infer, Symphonia, andopus-pureinspect browser containers, including Chrome's streaming WebM without container durations. The same encoded bytes go to Whisper, without decoding, conversion, re-encoding, or temporary files.async-openaicallswhisper-1with DSS's existing typedOpenaiApiKeyfrom MacroConfig/Doppler. Provider calls have bounded retries and an overall deadline. SDK response-body logging is suppressed; typed, sanitized diagnostics remain available.503with a CORS-exposedRetry-After. TanStack owns up to two client retries with exponential backoff and jitter. Cancellation resolves immediately and prevents subsequent uploads. Hourly429, auth, validation, network, and provider failures are not replayed automatically; the recording remains available for an explicit retry or cancellation. Audio/transcripts are excluded from mutation variables and results.Whisper uses the existing shared AI usage infrastructure. An additive migration adds nullable
price_per_audio_minutetoai_pricing, and nullableaudio_seconds/ applied minute rate toai_usage; it seedswhisper-1at $0.006/minute. Rust domain models useUsageAmount::{Tokens, Audio}andModelPricing::{Tokens, Audio}rather than unrelated optional fields. Postgres and HTTP adapters translate those enums to the existing flat representation. Existing token request/response fields stay compatible. Token pricing requires both rates explicitly; a model-only or partial request is rejected before it can erase recorded costs. Audio pricing can omit token fields. Repricing leaves mismatched billing units unpriced. The domain service owns admin authorization and rate validation.Successful transcription records the provider-reported duration through
UsageRecorder, attributed to the authenticated user andAiFeature::Dictation. Pricing comes from Postgres; no cost constant remains in dictation. Recording is best-effort and does not delay the response or deduct chat credits. Audio and transcript content are never persisted by the endpoint.Tracing connects
dictation.session, HTTP client/server spans, request extraction, domain admission, container inspection, Whisper, and the asynchronousai_usage.recordspan. Metadata includes bytes, format, duration, in-flight requests, stage, provider/error category, retry attempt, outcome, pricing availability, and cost. Frontend types derive from the existing observabilitySpanAPI. Provider bodies, audio, transcripts, and credentials are excluded.Validation:
just check, and full workspace SQLx preparation against an isolated fully migrated local database pass. Web/SDK API artifacts and dependency closures were regenerated; SDK TypeScript and endpoint coverage pass. Dependency hashes include the current main branch Vitest upgrade.inertremoved before each focus call. Earlier verification covered microphone handoff and native speech APIs being inaccessible.f654675facbfa250163a7e24c1569abf53321762, including the full Rust test suite, web tests/build/type checking, generated SDK validation, and native Linux/macOS dependency checks. The macOS hash was verified by the native CI runner.Deploy the additive migration, then DCS (which reads the new dictation feature), DSS, and the frontend. The concurrency guard applies after body extraction, so it does not bound every simultaneous inbound upload buffer. A separate service remains an option if measured memory or latency warrants it; the domain and adapters already have a separate crate.
OpenAI documents
/audio/transcriptionsas Zero Data Retention eligible. The service keys can use Whisper, but a service key cannot verify the actual organization's/project's ZDR setting. Hosted dev UI end-to-end verification was unavailable because the browser login had expired; browser interactions and backend/API checks were exercised separately.References: Solid stream primitives, Symphonia, Opus packet inspection, Whisper pricing, OpenAI data controls.
Note
Medium Risk
Introduces a new authenticated upload path, external Whisper calls, and billing schema changes, though audio is transient and usage recording is best-effort.
Overview
Adds OpenAI Whisper dictation to AI chat, agent, and channel composers: record in the browser, upload only on confirm, and append plain text to the draft without sending. Cancel and Escape preserve the draft; send and collapse are blocked while dictation is active.
Backend: new hexagonal
dictationcrate on DSS exposes authenticatedPOST /dictation/transcribe(rate limits, size/duration caps, container inspection, transient Whisper calls). AI usage gains audio billing (UsageAmount/ModelPricing,audio_seconds,price_per_audio_minute) and adictationfeature for cost attribution; admin pricing can be token-only or per audio minute.Frontend: shared recorder/controller UI (volume meter, capacity retries on
503/Retry-After) wired through generated storage/cognition clients and broad test coverage.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit d2479db. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.