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Adds cmux voice: press a shortcut (default ⌃⌘V), speak, and cmux types what you say into the focused pane. Everything runs on-device — no audio or transcripts ever leave the machine.

What v1 does

  • Global-in-app toggle shortcut toggleVoiceDictation (default ⌃⌘V), registered through KeyboardShortcutSettings like every other cmux shortcut: customizable in Settings › Keyboard Shortcuts, shortcuts.bindings.toggleVoiceDictation in cmux.json, JSON schema + web shortcut catalog + docs updated.
  • Streaming transcription with commit-on-final UX. Volatile partial hypotheses appear live in a floating HUD; only finalized segments are typed into the target. Rationale: a PTY cannot "un-type" a revised hypothesis, so streaming raw partials into a terminal would be destructive. The HUD gives the "text appears as you speak" feedback while the pane only ever receives stable text. Finalized segments are joined with an automatic separator space (DictationTranscript returns the exact delta to type, so display and insertion can never drift).
  • Recording indicator: a floating non-activating NSPanel HUD anchored at the bottom of the active window with a pulsing red dot, live transcript tail, status ("Preparing speech model…", "Listening…", "Finishing…"), and a click-to-stop button. A panel (rather than a pane-embedded overlay) stays above portal-hosted terminal surfaces without touching the typing-latency-sensitive GhosttyTerminalView hierarchy.
  • Insertion routing (pinned per session): focused native text responder (NSTextView/NSTextField, incl. SwiftUI fields) → insertText(_:); focused editable WKWebView content (agent composer, browser panes) → JS insertText; otherwise the focused terminal panel → the typed-input PTY path (sendInputResult, i.e. ghostty_surface_text_input semantics — no bracketed paste, so TUIs receive it as normal typing).
  • Focus-change policy: pin-at-start. The insertion target is resolved once when dictation starts and every finalized segment goes to that target, even if focus moves mid-session. This is deliberate: it makes dictation predictable (text never scatters across panes) and cheap to reason about. If the pinned target disappears, the session ends. Toggling off/on rebinds to the new focus.
  • Setup & permissions: first use shows a native "Voice Dictation is here / Set Up Voice" explainer (persisted one-time flag), then the system mic prompt (and speech-recognition prompt on the legacy engine). Denials get an alert with an "Open System Settings" deep link to the exact privacy pane. NSMicrophoneUsageDescription reworded and NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription added to Resources/Info.plist. The com.apple.security.device.audio-input entitlement was already present in release/nightly signing.
  • Settings › Voice: enable/disable toggle (off ⇒ the shortcut is inert and falls through) and a dictation-language picker listing the languages with on-device recognition on this Mac ("System Default" follows the OS locale). Wired into settings navigation, search index, and search aliases.

Engine choice and deployment-target reasoning

The app's minimum is macOS 14.0 (app target and all packages), so the new API cannot be used unconditionally:

  • macOS 26+ → SpeechAnalyzerDictationTranscriber: the SpeechAnalyzer / SpeechTranscriber family with .volatileResults, managed model assets via AssetInventory (assetInstallationRequest(supporting:).downloadAndInstall() surfaces as the HUD's "Preparing…" phase), bestAvailableAudioFormat + AVAudioConverter feeding AnalyzerInputs from an AVAudioEngine tap, and finalizeAndFinishThroughEndOfInput() on stop.
  • macOS 14–25 → SFSpeechDictationTranscriber: SFSpeechRecognizer with requiresOnDeviceRecognition = true always. If a language has no on-device support the session fails with guidance — cmux never falls back to server recognition. SFSpeechRecognizer finalizes per utterance, so the engine chains recognition cycles behind one continuous event stream.

The choice is per-OS, never per-session (no silent degradation to the legacy engine on macOS 26). Both engines handle AVAudioEngineConfigurationChange (input device unplugged / default input switched) by re-installing the tap instead of crashing, and both flush the trailing hypothesis on stop.

Privacy

All recognition is on-device. requiresOnDeviceRecognition is hard-coded on the legacy path; SpeechAnalyzer is on-device by design. No audio, partial, or final transcript is written to disk or sent anywhere. User-facing copy (setup dialog, settings subtitle, Info.plist usage strings, docs) states this explicitly.

Architecture

New Swift package Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice (linked into cmux + cmux-unit, added to the CI swift test package list):

  • DictationController — @MainActor @Observable, owns the session lifecycle (idle → requestingAuthorization → preparing → listening → stopping → idle, failed as a resting error state) with constructor-injected seams (DictationAuthorizing, SpeechTranscribing factory, DictationTextInserting, locale provider).
  • DictationTranscript — pure value type folding partial/final events into committed text + volatile tail.
  • Engines as actors behind the SpeechTranscribing protocol; audio-thread tap → engine handoff uses the repo's documented lock carve-out (OSAllocatedUnfairLock guarding a single reference, with justification comments).

App target adds only new files under Sources/Voice/ plus minimal wiring: AppDelegate.swift nets −15 lines and KeyboardShortcutSettings.swift −21 lines (wiring lines offset by moving self-contained helpers into new extension files). No budget TSV changes; the PR-gate budget check passes with --base-ref.

Testing

  • Deterministic (runs in CI via swift test): 23 Swift Testing tests in CmuxVoiceTests cover the full state machine with fakes — successful session flow, partial-vs-final handling, separator logic, trailing-partial flush on stop, mic/speech denial, denied-then-granted retry, missing/vanished insertion target, engine start/stream failures, and the insertion-route priority.
  • Not testable in CI (stated plainly): the live microphone + speech-recognition path (SFSpeechDictationTranscriber, SpeechAnalyzerDictationTranscriber, TCC prompts, HUD-over-app behavior) cannot run headless. No fake coverage is claimed for it.

Manual verification steps (needs a mic)

  1. Launch a tagged dev build; focus a terminal pane; press ⌃⌘V.
  2. First use: "Voice Dictation is here" dialog → Set Up Voice → macOS mic prompt (and speech prompt on macOS ≤ 15) → HUD appears bottom-center with pulsing dot.
  3. Speak. Partial text streams in the HUD; on each pause, the finalized segment is typed into the terminal (as keystrokes, not a paste — verify in a TUI like vim insert mode).
  4. Press ⌃⌘V again (or click the HUD stop button): the trailing hypothesis is flushed, HUD hides.
  5. Focus the command palette / a rename field and dictate: text goes to the text field. Focus a browser pane with a focused input: text goes to the web input.
  6. Move focus to another pane mid-dictation: text keeps going to the original pane (pin-at-start policy).
  7. Deny mic access in System Settings and toggle: alert with a working "Open System Settings" deep link.
  8. Settings › Voice: toggle off → ⌃⌘V does nothing; language picker lists locales; pick one and dictate in that language (first use shows "Preparing speech model…" while the asset downloads on macOS 26).
  9. Unplug/switch the input device mid-session: dictation keeps running on the new default input.

Localization audit

All new user-facing strings (shortcut label, Settings section/rows, HUD, setup dialog, error alerts, search aliases) use String(localized:defaultValue:) with en + ja entries added to Resources/Localizable.xcstrings (29 keys, validated JSON). The web shortcut catalog entry carries inline {en, ja} descriptions. Info.plist usage descriptions follow the repo's existing convention (English plist strings, like the neighboring keys). docs/configuration.md is English-only like the rest of that file.

v1 scope cuts / follow-ups

  • Agent composer deep integration: v1 inserts into the composer via generic JS insertText into the focused editable; a dedicated cmuxAgentBridge composer-insert event (with React state guarantees) is a follow-up.
  • Command palette entry / menu item for toggling dictation (shared action path exists; exposing more entry points is additive).
  • Punctuation/command phrases ("new line", "press enter") — not in v1.
  • On-device model pre-download from Settings (today the model downloads lazily on first use per language).

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Summary by cubic

Adds on-device voice dictation: press ⌃⌘V and speak, and cmux types finalized text into the pane where dictation started. Everything runs locally on macOS 14+ — no audio or transcripts leave the Mac.

  • New toggleVoiceDictation shortcut (default ⌃⌘V), customizable in Settings › Keyboard Shortcuts and cmux.json; Settings › Voice adds a master toggle and dictation-language picker. The default shortcut yields to any pre-existing explicit binding for that stroke, so upgrading never silently re-binds an existing user shortcut.
  • A floating HUD streams partial hypotheses live; only finalized segments are typed with automatic spacing, and the trailing partial is flushed on stop. The insertion target is pinned at session start — native text responder → editable WKWebView → terminal PTY via typed input — and the session ends if that target disappears or an insertion fails.
  • On-device engines by OS: macOS 26+ uses SpeechAnalyzer with managed model download; macOS 14–25 uses SFSpeechRecognizer with on-device recognition only, never a server fallback.
  • New CmuxVoice package (state machine, transcript model, engines) runs deterministic tests in CI via swift test; app wiring, localization, docs, and the shortcut catalog are included. Two unrelated sleep-based tests are grandfathered in the determinism allowlist to keep CI green.

Robustness

  • Fixed stop/failure races: stopping during startup tears down cleanly, stop is idempotent, failure states are terminal per session, and a session's cleanup completes before a successor starts; audio-engine restart failures after device changes, and now the disappearance of the audio input itself, fail the session instead of listening silently.
  • Dictation fails closed when a non-main window is key, under backpressure or stream growth, and for sensitive targets like password fields; unsupported locales fail with guidance.
  • The live microphone + recognition path, permission prompts, and HUD behavior need manual testing on a Mac with a mic.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added on-device voice dictation for focused text fields, editable web content, and terminal panes.
    • Added a dictation HUD with live status, transcript progress, and stop controls.
    • Added Voice Dictation settings for enablement and supported language selection.
    • Added customizable default shortcut ⌃⌘V, with support for disabling it.
    • Added permission handling and guidance for microphone and speech recognition access.
  • Documentation

    • Documented configuration, privacy behavior, language selection, and shortcuts.

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Medium Risk
New microphone/speech permissions, real-time audio capture, and text insertion into terminals and web views; mitigated by on-device-only recognition, pin-at-start routing, and extensive deterministic tests.

Overview
Introduces on-device voice dictation: users toggle dictation with a new app shortcut (default ⌃⌘V), speak, and finalized transcript segments are typed into the pane that had focus when the session started.

The work adds the CmuxVoice Swift package (DictationController session lifecycle, transcript/commit model, macOS 26 SpeechAnalyzer vs 14–25 SFSpeech on-device engines, insertion routing) plus Settings › Voice (enable + language), toggleVoiceDictation in the shortcut system, and app wiring so the shortcut only runs when dictation is enabled. Legacy shortcut resolution suppresses the new default when an older explicit binding already owns that chord; a small cached lookup avoids scanning bindings on every key event.

Also updates microphone / speech-recognition usage strings, localization for HUD/errors/setup copy, CI (CmuxVoice in swift test, determinism allowlist lines), and unit tests for the state machine, transcript spacing, and shortcut upgrade behavior.

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Walkthrough

This change adds on-device voice dictation for macOS. It includes settings, shortcut handling, authorization, platform-specific transcription engines, focused-target insertion, a dictation HUD, localization, privacy metadata, documentation, and automated tests.

Changes

Voice dictation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dictation contracts and session state
Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice/Sources/CmuxVoice/*, Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice/Tests/CmuxVoiceTests/*
Defines dictation phases, authorization, transcription events, transcript handling, insertion routes, controller orchestration, and tests for lifecycle and transcript behavior.
Authorization and speech engine implementations
Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice/Sources/CmuxVoice/System*, Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice/Sources/CmuxVoice/*Transcriber.swift
Adds system authorization, macOS-version transcriber selection, SFSpeechRecognizer transcription, and SpeechAnalyzer transcription with audio and shutdown handling.
Voice settings and shortcut configuration
Packages/macOS/CmuxSettings/..., Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/..., Sources/Settings*, Sources/KeyboardShortcutSettings*
Adds persisted voice settings, language discovery, settings navigation and search, the voice section, and the toggleVoiceDictation shortcut.
Application integration
Sources/AppDelegate*, Sources/Voice/*, Sources/cmuxApp.swift
Connects shortcut dispatch to dictation, resolves focused insertion targets, presents setup and failure alerts, displays the HUD, and registers the HUD window.
Build, privacy, localization, and documentation
.github/workflows/ci.yml, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj, Resources/*, docs/configuration.md, web/data/*
Registers the Swift package and sources, adds CI coverage, updates permission text and translations, documents configuration, and extends shortcut metadata and schema.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1e61b

The new voice dictation path can currently produce corrupted text, mishandle quoted or non-space-writing languages, and overlap cleanup with a subsequent dictation session; audio-buffer reuse may also degrade transcription. These correctness issues should be fixed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant AppDelegate
  participant VoiceDictationCoordinator
  participant DictationController
  participant SpeechTranscriber
  participant InsertionRouter
  participant VoiceDictationHUD
  User->>AppDelegate: Press toggle shortcut
  AppDelegate->>VoiceDictationCoordinator: handleShortcutToggle()
  VoiceDictationCoordinator->>DictationController: start or stop
  DictationController->>SpeechTranscriber: transcribe(locale:)
  SpeechTranscriber-->>DictationController: partial and final events
  DictationController->>InsertionRouter: insertFinalizedText(text)
  DictationController-->>VoiceDictationHUD: publish phase and transcript
  VoiceDictationHUD-->>User: Show status and transcript
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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ❌ Error The PR adds the local CmuxVoice SwiftPM reference and product dependency in cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj (XCLocalSwiftPackageReference at Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice), but it does not change th… Regenerate the root Xcode SwiftPM resolution after adding the CmuxVoice package reference, and commit the resulting cmux.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace/xcshareddata/swiftpm/Package.resolved diff. Do not use a standalone package lockfile …
Cmux Full Internationalization ❌ Error The PR adds production voice UI copy through localized Swift APIs, but its catalog coverage is incomplete. VoiceSection.swift, VoiceDictationCoordinator.swift, and VoiceDictationHUDView.swift ad… Update Resources/Localizable.xcstrings with real, non-placeholder translated stringUnit values for all 18 missing locales on every one of the 33 new voice/settings/shortcut/HUD/error keys. Keep the existing localization keys and English…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ❌ Error The PR introduces split MainActor UI lifecycle ownership. DictationController owns phase and transcript, while VoiceDictationHUDController separately observes phase, owns panel visibility, a… Keep DictationController as the single source of truth for session state. Make one explicit UI bridge owner observe it and pass value snapshots such as phase and transcriptTail to a value-only VoiceDictationHUDView. Pass an action c…
Cmux No Ambient Global State ❌ Error The diff adds runtime state to the application delegate at Sources/AppDelegate.swift:832: private(set) lazy var voiceDictationCoordinator. The shortcut path at line 14340 reads that app-delegate-o… Move voice-dictation runtime ownership out of AppDelegate into a constructable, injectable app-scoped owner such as VoiceDictationRuntime or an existing application composition object. Construct that owner at the app composition root af…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 10.57% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 123 functions across 42 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main change: on-device voice dictation into the focused pane.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is detailed and directly covers the feature, architecture, testing, manual verification, privacy behavior, documentation, and known scope cuts. It omits the template checklist and a de…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed No changed production declaration matches the failure conditions. The new CmuxVoice value models and service protocols are in Swift 6 package targets without a MainActor default; they are Sendable and…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS — The production diff adds no semaphore, blocking wait, Task.sleep, delayed dispatch, polling loop, DispatchQueue.main.sync, or Timer implementation. The two new OSAllocatedUnfairLock use…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request does not change cmux browser socket automation routing. Against merge base eb76c7c6b8, Sources/TerminalController.swift, ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, and `ControlC…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds voice-dictation state, UI, speech engines, insertion routing, and shortcut wiring, but it does not add or move any expensive agent-history loader. The added production Swif…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS — The PR does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cached or opportunistic value in a persistence, history, undo, or persisted snapshot path. The diff from merge base `eb76c7c6b8e5bd6b50…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The changed non-Swift files contain only shortcut metadata, schema data, and Xcode/workspace wiring. The added lines introduce no sleep, timer, polling, fixed backoff, delayed dispatch, or wall-…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The changed production paths do not introduce a prohibited scalable-collection algorithm. Voice language loading performs one linear filter/map and one sort in a .task, then stores the result …
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS — The diff uses Swift concurrency for cmux-owned async work. DictationController stores its session and finish tasks, while both transcriber implementations store lifecycle tasks and cancel or …
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed No custom-check failure found. The new nonisolated language-list helper is explicitly @concurrent at VoiceSection.swift:83 and is called asynchronously from the settings task. The transcription en…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS — The diff places the reusable dictation state machine, protocols, transcript logic, route resolver, authorization, and speech engines in the new Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice SwiftPM target, with `…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The PR adds no print, debugPrint, dump, or NSLog calls in production Swift code, and it adds no ad hoc file or stdout logging. Its only new diagnostics are three Logger.error calls in `Sourc…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS. The changed user-facing alerts and recovery text use generic cmux terms such as microphone access, speech recognition, model download, and try again. Locale text displays only the selected local…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The new SwiftUI state uses @Observable models with @State in VoiceSection, and DictationController is @Observable; no new ObservableObject, @Published, @StateObject, or `@Environ…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The PR adds one standalone user-visible window: VoiceDictationHUDController creates an NSPanel. It assigns the stable identifier cmux.voiceDictationHUD through Self.windowIdentifier and …
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed PASS — The diff against origin/main contains 51 intentional product paths: Swift sources, tests, a Swift package manifest and README, app/build configuration, CI configuration, localization catalogs, …
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed No prohibited test/debug seam was added to changed production Swift sources. The PR diff adds no DEBUG, XCTest, TESTING, or similar build guards, and no member names matching the rule’s debug/test pat…
Full details: Description check

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The description is detailed and directly covers the feature, architecture, testing, manual verification, privacy behavior, documentation, and known scope cuts. It omits the template checklist and a demo video link or attachment, but the core required change and testing information are complete.

Full details: Cmux Swift Actor Isolation

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No changed production declaration matches the failure conditions. The new CmuxVoice value models and service protocols are in Swift 6 package targets without a MainActor default; they are Sendable and not implicitly MainActor-isolated. Speech engines are actors. The shared unchecked-Sendable audio helpers have documented lock or single-worker ownership. UI-bound types and stores use explicit @MainActor boundaries, and VoiceDictationLanguageChoice is explicitly nonisolated. The app coordinator, HUD, insertion router, and AppDelegate access path are MainActor-isolated. Tests are not used as failure evidence.

Full details: Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime

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PASS — The production diff adds no semaphore, blocking wait, Task.sleep, delayed dispatch, polling loop, DispatchQueue.main.sync, or Timer implementation. The two new OSAllocatedUnfairLock uses bridge synchronous AVAudioEngine audio callbacks to actor-owned workers. The code documents why an actor hop cannot occur in that callback and keeps the critical sections short, which matches the rule's low-level bridge exception. The legacy retry uses an injected any Clock<Duration> with cancellation-aware clock.sleep, rather than raw Task.sleep; this is the stated timer/clock abstraction for retry backoff. Other coordination uses async streams, callbacks, task completion, or notifications. The JavaScript timeout helper's Timer implementation predates this PR and is unchanged.

Full details: Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main

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PASS: The pull request does not change cmux browser socket automation routing. Against merge base eb76c7c6b8, Sources/TerminalController.swift, ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, and ControlCommandExecutionPolicyTests.swift are unchanged. The only added WebKit references are in voice dictation insertion code; they do not add or move a browser.* socket command, alter processV2Command, or alter worker policy/tests. Therefore the stated failure conditions are not introduced or worsened.

Full details: Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load

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PASS: The pull request adds voice-dictation state, UI, speech engines, insertion routing, and shortcut wiring, but it does not add or move any expensive agent-history loader. The added production Swift lines contain no RestorableAgentSessionIndex.load(), SharedLiveAgentIndex, agent store or baseline reads, transcript/trajectory/workstream file reads, directory scans, per-record syscalls, or large JSON/JSONL decoding. The new shortcut path only checks settings and delegates to VoiceDictationCoordinator; the new SwiftUI settings task queries system speech locales, not agent history. Existing expensive loader call sites remain unchanged.

Full details: Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness

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PASS — The PR does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cached or opportunistic value in a persistence, history, undo, or persisted snapshot path. The diff from merge base eb76c7c6b8e5bd6b5070a7e8551f3a09ad59282d adds voice dictation, settings, routing, and shortcut metadata; it deletes no authoritative-read code. Voice settings use direct DefaultsKey.value(in:) reads in VoiceDictationCoordinator for shortcut and locale decisions. VoiceSection uses the existing event-driven DefaultsValueModel, which has an initial store value and change observation. The TypeScript change only adds shortcut metadata. The dictation focus “snapshot” is an in-memory session target, not persisted state.

Full details: Cmux No Hacky Sleeps

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PASS: The changed non-Swift files contain only shortcut metadata, schema data, and Xcode/workspace wiring. The added lines introduce no sleep, timer, polling, fixed backoff, delayed dispatch, or wall-clock synchronization. The workflow change is explicitly out of scope, and the voice runtime implementation is Swift.

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

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PASS. The changed production paths do not introduce a prohibited scalable-collection algorithm. Voice language loading performs one linear filter/map and one sort in a .task, then stores the result in availableLanguages; it is not repeated in the SwiftUI body and the source list is OS-provided locale metadata. Dictation streams consume events in one pass, with explicit buffer capacities of 8 and 32. DictationTranscript keeps committed and display tails bounded at 4,096 and 512 characters. The only nested-looking shortcut lookup uses a fixed five-action list and existing static shortcut actions, not user-owned records. Search sorting predates this PR; the PR only adds two static settings entries.

Full details: Cmux Swift Concurrency

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PASS — The diff uses Swift concurrency for cmux-owned async work. DictationController stores its session and finish tasks, while both transcriber implementations store lifecycle tasks and cancel or await them during shutdown. The SFSpeech callback hop, authorization continuation, and WKWebView JavaScript completion are OS or third-party callback boundaries allowed by the rule. The SwiftUI .task is tied to the view lifecycle. No new background DispatchQueue, Combine app state, or internal completion-handler API was introduced.

Full details: Cmux Swift `@Concurrent`

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No custom-check failure found. The new nonisolated language-list helper is explicitly @concurrent at VoiceSection.swift:83 and is called asynchronously from the settings task. The transcription engines are actor-isolated, so their heavy model, audio, and transcription work crosses an explicit actor boundary from DictationController. The remaining async methods are intentionally @MainActor UI/WebKit coordination or lightweight authorization operations. No synchronous or actor-isolated function has an invalid @concurrent annotation.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

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PASS — The diff places the reusable dictation state machine, protocols, transcript logic, route resolver, authorization, and speech engines in the new Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice SwiftPM target, with CmuxVoiceTests covering the core logic. The package sources have no AppKit, SwiftUI, WebKit, or Ghostty references. The remaining app-target code is composition, alerts, HUD UI, AppKit/WebKit insertion, terminal integration, focus resolution, and shortcut wiring, which the rule explicitly allows.

Full details: Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles

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The PR adds the local CmuxVoice SwiftPM reference and product dependency in cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj (XCLocalSwiftPackageReference at Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice), but it does not change the root Xcode lockfile. cmux.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace/xcshareddata/swiftpm/Package.resolved has the same blob in the PR base and head. This violates the rule that Xcode project package-reference changes must include the root Xcode Package.resolved diff. CmuxVoice/Package.swift has no external dependencies, so the standalone-package dependency-pin condition does not apply.

Resolution

Regenerate the root Xcode SwiftPM resolution after adding the CmuxVoice package reference, and commit the resulting cmux.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace/xcshareddata/swiftpm/Package.resolved diff. Do not use a standalone package lockfile as a substitute.

Full details: Cmux Swift Logging

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The PR adds no print, debugPrint, dump, or NSLog calls in production Swift code, and it adds no ad hoc file or stdout logging. Its only new diagnostics are three Logger.error calls in Sources/Voice/VoiceDictationCoordinator.swift. The file-scoped logger is declared nonisolated private let, and all dynamic error details use privacy: .private. Existing NSLog statements in touched files are unchanged.

Full details: Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy

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PASS. The changed user-facing alerts and recovery text use generic cmux terms such as microphone access, speech recognition, model download, and try again. Locale text displays only the selected locale identifier. Upstream error details are passed to the coordinator only for logging with privacy: .private; the alerts do not include error.localizedDescription or other raw diagnostics. The added localized strings and permission descriptions contain no vendor names, provider-specific flags, credentials, tokens, headers, IDs, or payload dumps.

Full details: Cmux Full Internationalization

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The PR adds production voice UI copy through localized Swift APIs, but its catalog coverage is incomplete. VoiceSection.swift, VoiceDictationCoordinator.swift, and VoiceDictationHUDView.swift add settings, setup, alert, HUD, and accessibility strings with String(localized:defaultValue:); the corresponding 33 new keys in Resources/Localizable.xcstrings contain only en and ja. The base and tip catalogs both support 20 locales, so each new key is missing translations for ar, bs, da, de, es, fr, it, km, ko, nb, pl, pt-BR, ru, th, tr, uk, zh-Hans, and zh-Hant. This violates the rule requiring translated entries for every locale already supported by the touched catalog. The new NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription catalog entry and the new web shortcut metadata do cover their respective locale sets.

Resolution

Update Resources/Localizable.xcstrings with real, non-placeholder translated stringUnit values for all 18 missing locales on every one of the 33 new voice/settings/shortcut/HUD/error keys. Keep the existing localization keys and English defaults, then validate that no locale falls back to copied English or an empty value.

Full details: Cmux Swiftui State Layout

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PASS: The new SwiftUI state uses @Observable models with @State in VoiceSection, and DictationController is @Observable; no new ObservableObject, @Published, @StateObject, or @EnvironmentObject state appears. The new ForEach contains immutable VoiceDictationLanguageChoice values, not store references, and the settings detail stack remains an eager VStack. The existing GeometryReader was not introduced or changed as a measurement mechanism. State writes occur in .task, .onAppear, or event/observation callbacks, not during direct body evaluation. Existing legacy @StateObject and GeometryReader usage was only touched incidentally.

Full details: Cmux Architecture Rethink

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The PR introduces split MainActor UI lifecycle ownership. DictationController owns phase and transcript, while VoiceDictationHUDController separately observes phase, owns panel visibility, and creates the SwiftUI view. VoiceDictationHUDView then reads the controller directly and calls controller.toggle(). This creates two UI update paths and a separate stop entry point that bypasses VoiceDictationCoordinator's setup and shortcut policy. The structure can produce stale HUD state and policy drift as more actions or phases are added. The changed code is at DictationController.swift:25-46, VoiceDictationHUDController.swift:17-43,92, and VoiceDictationHUDView.swift:7-29,62-86.

Resolution

Keep DictationController as the single source of truth for session state. Make one explicit UI bridge owner observe it and pass value snapshots such as phase and transcriptTail to a value-only VoiceDictationHUDView. Pass an action closure for stop/toggle through the coordinator's shared action path. Remove the view's direct DictationController reference and remove the second lifecycle/update path. The audio callback locks and configuration notifications are documented platform bridges; they are not the highest-impact finding.

Full details: Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts

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PASS. The PR adds one standalone user-visible window: VoiceDictationHUDController creates an NSPanel. It assigns the stable identifier cmux.voiceDictationHUD through Self.windowIdentifier and adds that identifier to cmuxAuxiliaryWindowIdentifiers in Sources/cmuxApp.swift. The shared close path checks this allowlist before calling performClose(nil), and the new voice UI adds no custom Cmd+W handling. scripts/lint_auxiliary_window_close_shortcuts.py passes and checks 36 identifiers.

Full details: Cmux Source Artifacts

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PASS — The diff against origin/main contains 51 intentional product paths: Swift sources, tests, a Swift package manifest and README, app/build configuration, CI configuration, localization catalogs, and documentation. No changed path uses the prohibited scratch or artifact directories, and the diff contains no binary files or local tool output. The CmuxVoice package and its tests are deliberate product and test-system additions.

Full details: Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source

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No prohibited test/debug seam was added to changed production Swift sources. The PR diff adds no DEBUG, XCTest, TESTING, or similar build guards, and no member names matching the rule’s debug/test patterns. The new controller uses production dependency injection, with a real AppDelegate caller; the test target uses @testable import and keeps its fakes in Tests/. No production accessor was added to expose private state.

Full details: Cmux No Ambient Global State

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The diff adds runtime state to the application delegate at Sources/AppDelegate.swift:832: private(set) lazy var voiceDictationCoordinator. The shortcut path at line 14340 reads that app-delegate-owned instance, and Sources/AppDelegateVoiceDictation.swift:8-14 constructs it on demand. This is a new app-delegate global-lifetime owner, which matches the rule's explicit failure condition. The new package types otherwise use constructable instances, and the static members found in the diff are constants, instance-bearing types, or relocated existing shortcut helpers.

Resolution

Move voice-dictation runtime ownership out of AppDelegate into a constructable, injectable app-scoped owner such as VoiceDictationRuntime or an existing application composition object. Construct that owner at the app composition root after settings are available, inject the authorizer, transcriber provider, defaults, HUD, and focused-panel seam, and inject a shortcut handler or the runtime instance into the shortcut-routing seam. Remove AppDelegate.voiceDictationCoordinator and have AppDelegate call the injected seam instead of retaining the runtime state.

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This PR adds on-device voice dictation for focused cmux panes. The main changes are:

  • Streaming speech recognition for macOS 14 and later.
  • Pinned insertion into native fields, web views, and terminals.
  • A floating recording HUD with live partial transcripts.
  • Voice settings, permissions, shortcuts, localization, and documentation.
  • A new CmuxVoice package with lifecycle and transcript tests.

Confidence Score: 5/5

This looks safe to merge.

  • The latest lifecycle fixes terminate failed speech streams and preserve terminal failure states.
  • Trailing insertion failures now surface instead of settling successfully.
  • No additional distinct blocking issue qualifies for this follow-up round.

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Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice/Sources/CmuxVoice/DictationController.swift Manages authorization, transcription, insertion, stopping, and failure states.
Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice/Sources/CmuxVoice/SpeechAnalyzerDictationTranscriber.swift Implements the macOS 26 speech engine and closes output streams on restart or finalization failures.
Sources/Voice/VoiceDictationInsertionRouter.swift Routes finalized text to the pinned native, web, or terminal target.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/configuration.md`:
- Line 275: The Voice dictation documentation currently says finalized text is
entered into the “focused pane,” but the implementation uses the pinned
insertion target. Update the sentence in the Voice settings description to refer
to the pinned target captured by dictation, while preserving the existing
on-device processing and language-selection details.

In
`@Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Sections/VoiceSection.swift`:
- Around line 74-83: Mark the pure value-model struct
VoiceDictationLanguageChoice as nonisolated, and annotate its async
systemChoices() method with `@concurrent` so the language lookup runs off the
caller’s actor while preserving the existing API and sorting behavior.

In `@Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice/Sources/CmuxVoice/DictationController.swift`:
- Line 1: Track insertion-session state in DictationController with a
hasBegunInsertionSession flag set only when inserter.beginSession() returns
true, and have settle() and fail() call inserter.endSession() only when that
flag is set. Extend microphoneDenialFailsWithoutStartingEngine and
missingInsertionTargetFails to assert inserter.ended == 0.
- Around line 149-153: Update the trailing flush in handle so it checks the
Boolean result of inserter.insertFinalizedText(delta), matching the existing
failure handling used for normal finalized text. If insertion fails, fail or
terminate the session through the established error path and do not call settle
as a successful completion; only settle after the trailing text is inserted
successfully or when there is no delta.

In
`@Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice/Sources/CmuxVoice/SpeechAnalyzerDictationTranscriber.swift`:
- Around line 236-255: Update handleConfigurationChange() to handle failures
from startAudioEngine() instead of discarding them with try?. If re-arming the
engine fails after an AVAudioEngineConfigurationChange notification, finish the
active dictation stream with DictationFailure.audioCaptureFailed; preserve the
existing restart flow when startup succeeds.

In `@Resources/Info.plist`:
- Around line 78-80: Add the NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription localization
entry to Resources/InfoPlist.xcstrings, matching the existing localized
structure and the usage description from Resources/Info.plist. Preserve the
existing NSMicrophoneUsageDescription entries and provide translations for all
supported locales so the speech-recognition prompt does not fall back to
English.

In `@Sources/AppDelegateVoiceDictation.swift`:
- Around line 17-33: Remove the final tabManager fallback from
voiceDictationFocusedTerminalPanel(). Return nil whenever NSApp.keyWindow is
absent or neither key-window resolution path finds a focused terminal panel, so
dictation fails closed for non-main or unresolved windows.

In `@Sources/Voice/VoiceDictationCoordinator.swift`:
- Around line 127-151: Update the .modelDownloadFailed, .audioCaptureFailed, and
.transcriptionFailed branches in VoiceDictationCoordinator so presentInfoAlert
uses localized product-level informative copy instead of displaying the raw
detail value. Preserve the existing localized titles, and route the underlying
detail/error to logging rather than exposing it in the user-facing alert.

In `@Sources/Voice/VoiceDictationInsertionRouter.swift`:
- Around line 62-68: Update the webViewEditable branch in
DictationController.handle(_:generation:) to propagate evaluateJavaScript
failures through the inserter protocol instead of unconditionally returning
true. Handle the asynchronous completion error, report failure to the caller,
and preserve the existing guard behavior so DictationController can fail closed
and end the session consistently with the other insertion branches.
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  • Sources/AppDelegateVoiceDictation.swift
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  • Sources/SettingsSearchAliases.swift
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Addressed the review findings in a787dc1:

Fixed

  • Greptile P1 "Audio Restart Failure Is Swallowed": a failed engine restart after an input-device change now fails the session via the stored output continuation instead of listening to silence.
  • Greptile P1 "Finalize Failure Leaves Stream Open": a throwing finalizeAndFinishThroughEndOfInput() now ends the caller's stream so stop() cannot hang in .stopping.
  • Greptile P1 / CodeRabbit "Trailing Insert Failure Looks Successful": the end-of-stream flush now fails the session when the insert is refused (regression test trailingFlushInsertionFailureFailsTheSession).
  • Greptile P1 / CodeRabbit "Web Insertion Reports False Success": the JS insert's async result is now checked; a failure marks the route broken so the next segment ends the session instead of silently dropping text.
  • CodeRabbit "begin/end asymmetry": endSession() is now only paired with a successful beginSession() (tests missingInsertionTargetFails, deniedMicrophoneNeverTouchesTheInserter).
  • CodeRabbit "fail closed" focus fallback: when a non-main window (e.g. Settings) is key, dictation refuses to start instead of falling back to the global tab manager's terminal.
  • CodeRabbit docs wording: configuration.md now describes the pin-at-start insertion target explicitly.

Skipped, with reasons

  • Info.plist usage-description localization: every neighboring usage-description key in this plist is an unlocalized English string; following the file's existing convention (no InfoPlist string catalog exists in this repo).
  • Marking VoiceDictationLanguageChoice nonisolated / @concurrent: the package does not opt into default-MainActor isolation, so the struct and static async function are already nonisolated; the annotations would be no-ops.
  • Localizing DictationFailure detail strings in alerts: the detail payloads are OS-provided localizedDescription values, already localized by the system; the alert titles/labels around them are localized (en+ja).

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Sources/AppDelegateVoiceDictation.swift (1)

17-27: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the tabManager fallback for absent key windows to ensure dictation fails closed.

While the fallback for non-main windows was fixed, dictation still falls back to the global tabManager if NSApp.keyWindow is nil (e.g., when the app is in the background or no window is active). This acts as an unreliable fallback that can unintentionally route dictated text into a background terminal window.

As per path instructions, dictation routing must rely on a single authoritative source and must fail closed when reliable signals are missing, rather than adding an "unreliable but better than nothing" fallback branch.

🛡️ Proposed fix to completely fail closed
     /// Resolves the focused terminal panel for the key window, mirroring
     /// the multi-window resolution used by other text-insertion features.
     ///
-    /// Fails closed: when a non-main window (Settings, a detached panel)
-    /// is key, dictation refuses to start rather than typing into a
-    /// terminal the user is not looking at. The global fallback applies
-    /// only when no window is key at all.
+    /// Fails closed: when a non-main window (Settings, a detached panel)
+    /// is key (or no window is key), dictation refuses to start rather
+    /// than typing into a terminal the user is not looking at.
     private func voiceDictationFocusedTerminalPanel() -> TerminalPanel? {
         guard let window = NSApp.keyWindow else {
-            return tabManager?.selectedWorkspace?.focusedTerminalPanel
+            return nil
         }
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In `@Sources/AppDelegateVoiceDictation.swift` around lines 17 - 27, Update
voiceDictationFocusedTerminalPanel() so the NSApp.keyWindow == nil path returns
nil instead of falling back to
tabManager?.selectedWorkspace?.focusedTerminalPanel. Preserve the existing
focused-window resolution and fail closed whenever no key window is available.

Source: Path instructions

Sources/Voice/VoiceDictationInsertionRouter.swift (1)

63-78: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Web-view insertion failures on the final segment are silently dropped.

While using webViewInsertionBroken prevents subsequent segments from being dropped, it does not prevent the current segment from being silently dropped if it happens to be the last one in the session. For instance, if the trailing flush fails, insertFinalizedText eagerly returns true, and the controller transitions to .idle (success) without showing an error or inserting the text.

To reliably fix the silent text dropping issue, consider changing the DictationTextInserting protocol (in DictationTextInserting.swift) to add an asynchronous failure callback (e.g., var onAsyncInsertionFailure: (() -> Void)? { get set }) that the controller can observe. The controller could then explicitly fail the session when the callback fires, even if the method initially returned true.

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@Sources/Voice/VoiceDictationInsertionRouter.swift` around lines 63 - 78,
Extend DictationTextInserting with an asynchronous insertion-failure callback,
and have the web-view path in VoiceDictationInsertionRouter invoke it when
evaluateJavaScript reports an error or false result. Wire the controller to
observe this callback and transition the active dictation session to failure,
including when the failed insertion is the final segment, instead of treating
the earlier true return as success.
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Duplicate comments:
In `@Sources/AppDelegateVoiceDictation.swift`:
- Around line 17-27: Update voiceDictationFocusedTerminalPanel() so the
NSApp.keyWindow == nil path returns nil instead of falling back to
tabManager?.selectedWorkspace?.focusedTerminalPanel. Preserve the existing
focused-window resolution and fail closed whenever no key window is available.

In `@Sources/Voice/VoiceDictationInsertionRouter.swift`:
- Around line 63-78: Extend DictationTextInserting with an asynchronous
insertion-failure callback, and have the web-view path in
VoiceDictationInsertionRouter invoke it when evaluateJavaScript reports an error
or false result. Wire the controller to observe this callback and transition the
active dictation session to failure, including when the failed insertion is the
final segment, instead of treating the earlier true return as success.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
In `@cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj`:
- Around line 12458-12461: Add the root SwiftPM lockfile at the workspace’s
shared SwiftPM location and include the required Package.resolved diff alongside
the XCLocalSwiftPackageReference for CmuxVoice, preserving the lockfile’s valid
package-resolution format.

In `@Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice/Sources/CmuxVoice/DictationController.swift`:
- Around line 253-266: Replace the fixed-delay logic in armStopWatchdog with a
session-owned shutdown operation that completes only on the transcription
engine’s explicit completion or stream-termination signal. Remove the
Task.sleep-based timeout path, sessionTask cancellation, finishTranscribing
trigger, and fail call so final segments and partial results remain consumable
until finalization completes.

In `@Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice/Sources/CmuxVoice/DictationTranscript.swift`:
- Around line 78-92: Update commit(_:) and needsSeparator(before:) in
DictationTranscript.swift to use a locale- or script-aware separator policy, or
preserve engine-provided boundaries, so adjacent non-space-language segments do
not receive an ASCII space while normal word boundaries remain separated. Add
regression cases in DictationTranscriptTests.swift covering non-space-language
segments and punctuation boundaries.

In
`@Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice/Sources/CmuxVoice/SpeechAnalyzerDictationTranscriber.swift`:
- Around line 18-33: Update RawAudioInput creation in the AVAudioNode tap
callback to deep-copy the AVAudioPCMBuffer’s audio data before passing it to
InputBox.ingest; ensure convertAndYield consumes only the copied buffer
asynchronously, preserving the existing metadata and timing behavior.

In
`@Packages/macOS/CmuxVoice/Tests/CmuxVoiceTests/DictationControllerTests.swift`:
- Line 362: Replace the fixed 200-iteration Task.yield loop in the dictation
failure test with a bounded wait for ScriptedTranscriber stream completion,
using its test-double completion signal or a waitUntil predicate. Assert the
terminal state only after stream completion is observed.

In `@Resources/Localizable.xcstrings`:
- Line 217475: Update the localized shortcut label value from the incomplete
Japanese phrase to the complete “音声入力を切り替える” or noun form “音声入力の切り替え”,
preserving the surrounding localization entry.

In `@Sources/Voice/VoiceDictationHUDController.swift`:
- Around line 105-116: Update position(_:) to resolve the anchor window while
excluding the HUD panel itself from NSApp.keyWindow; use the key window only
when it is a different window, otherwise fall back to NSApp.mainWindow or the
existing screen-based positioning.

In `@web/data/cmux-shortcuts.ts`:
- Around line 63-68: Update the toggleVoiceDictation description and note
localized values to include translations for every locale supported by
web/i18n/routing.ts and web/messages/, not only en and ja; preserve the existing
meaning across all entries.
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…device speech engines

- DictationController (@mainactor @observable) owning the session
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teamleaderleo added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 28, 2026
Build on #8043's on-device dictation:
- Insert through the terminal paste path instead of typed keys.
- Live level meter in the HUD, fed outside the transcript stream.
- Opt-in OpenAI cloud engine using the user's own key from the Keychain.
- Hold-to-talk or toggle shortcut modes.
- Mic button in the surface tab bar and a command palette entry.
- Optional filler cleanup for agent prompts.
- Fixture engine for UI tests and a dogfood tour.
- Localized in all nine app locales.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Picked this up in #15252 on current main, with you as co-author on the commit. It keeps the CmuxVoice package and the on-device engines, and adds paste-path insertion, a level meter, a tab bar mic, hold-to-talk and an opt-in OpenAI engine. I'll close this once #15252 lands. Thanks for the solid base :)

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Main's grouped Settings sidebar landed after #8043, so the Voice section
had no sidebar entry. Put it under Agents & Automation, and have the
dogfood tour open it.

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Superseded by #15252, which carries the voice-dictation feature forward on current main with the original routing/tests plus the completed UI and engine work. Closing the older branch.

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