* feat(api): add /v1/audio/diarization endpoint with sherpa-onnx + vibevoice.cpp
Closes#1648.
OpenAI-style multipart endpoint that returns "who spoke when". Single
endpoint instead of the issue's three-endpoint sketch (refactor /vad,
/vad/embedding, /diarization) — the typical client wants one call, and
embeddings can land later as a sibling without breaking this surface.
Response shape borrows from Pyannote/Deepgram: segments carry a
normalised SPEAKER_NN id (zero-padded, stable across the response) plus
the raw backend label, optional per-segment text when the backend bundles
ASR, and a speakers summary in verbose_json. response_format also accepts
rttm so consumers can pipe straight into pyannote.metrics / dscore.
Backends:
* vibevoice-cpp — Diarize() reuses the existing vv_capi_asr pass.
vibevoice's ASR prompt asks the model to emit
[{Start,End,Speaker,Content}] natively, so diarization is a by-product
of the same pass; include_text=true preserves the transcript per
segment, otherwise we drop it.
* sherpa-onnx — wraps the upstream SherpaOnnxOfflineSpeakerDiarization
C API (pyannote segmentation + speaker-embedding extractor + fast
clustering). libsherpa-shim grew config builders, a SetClustering
wrapper for per-call num_clusters/threshold overrides, and a
segment_at accessor (purego can't read field arrays out of
SherpaOnnxOfflineSpeakerDiarizationSegment[] directly).
Plumbing: new Diarize gRPC RPC + DiarizeRequest / DiarizeSegment /
DiarizeResponse messages, threaded through interface.go, base, server,
client, embed. Default Base impl returns unimplemented.
Capability surfaces all updated: FLAG_DIARIZATION usecase,
FeatureAudioDiarization permission (default-on), RouteFeatureRegistry
entries for /v1/audio/diarization and /audio/diarization, audio
instruction-def description widened, CAP_DIARIZATION JS symbol,
swagger regenerated, /api/instructions discovery map updated.
Tests:
* core/backend: speaker-label normalisation (first-seen → SPEAKER_NN,
per-speaker totals, nil-safety, fallback to backend NumSpeakers when
no segments).
* core/http/endpoints/openai: RTTM rendering (file-id basename, negative
duration clamping, fallback id).
* tests/e2e: mock-backend grew a deterministic Diarize that emits
raw labels "5","2","5" so the e2e suite verifies SPEAKER_NN
remapping, verbose_json speakers summary + transcript pass-through
(gated by include_text), RTTM bytes content-type, and rejection of
unknown response_format. mock-diarize model config registered with
known_usecases=[FLAG_DIARIZATION] to bypass the backend-name guard.
Docs: new features/audio-diarization.md (request/response, RTTM example,
sherpa-onnx + vibevoice setup), cross-link from audio-to-text.md, entry
in whats-new.md.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
* fix(diarization): correct sherpa-onnx symbol name + lint cleanup
CI failures on #9654:
* sherpa-onnx-grpc-{tts,transcription} and sherpa-onnx-realtime panicked
at backend startup with `undefined symbol: SherpaOnnxDestroyOfflineSpeakerDiarizationResult`.
Upstream's actual symbol is SherpaOnnxOfflineSpeakerDiarizationDestroyResult
(Destroy in the middle, not the prefix); the rest of the diarization
surface follows the same naming pattern. The mismatched name made
purego.RegisterLibFunc fail at dlopen time and crashed the gRPC server
before the BeforeAll could probe Health, taking down every sherpa-onnx
test job — not just the diarization-related ones.
* golangci-lint flagged 5 errcheck violations on new defer cleanups
(os.RemoveAll / Close / conn.Close); wrap each in a `defer func() { _ = X() }()`
closure (matches the pattern other LocalAI files use for new code, since
pre-existing bare defers are grandfathered in via new-from-merge-base).
* golangci-lint also flagged forbidigo violations: the new
diarization_test.go files used testing.T-style `t.Errorf` / `t.Fatalf`,
which are forbidden by the project's coding-style policy
(.agents/coding-style.md). Convert both files to Ginkgo/Gomega
Describe/It with Expect(...) — they get picked up by the existing
TestBackend / TestOpenAI suites, no new suite plumbing needed.
* modernize linter: tightened the diarization segment loop to
`for i := range int(numSegments)` (Go 1.22+ idiom).
Verified locally: golangci-lint with new-from-merge-base=origin/master
reports 0 issues across all touched packages, and the four mocked
diarization e2e specs in tests/e2e/mock_backend_test.go still pass.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): convert non-WAV input via ffmpeg + raise ASR token budget
Confirmed end-to-end against a real LocalAI instance with vibevoice-asr-q4_k
loaded and the multi-speaker MP3 sample at vibevoice.cpp/samples/2p_argument.mp3:
both /v1/audio/transcriptions and /v1/audio/diarization now succeed and
return correctly attributed speaker turns for the full clip.
Two latent issues surfaced once the diarization endpoint actually exercised
the backend with a non-trivial input:
1. vv_capi_asr only accepts WAV via load_wav_24k_mono. The previous code
passed the uploaded path straight through, so anything that wasn't
already a 24 kHz mono s16le WAV failed at the C side with rc=-8 and
the very unhelpful "vv_capi_asr failed". prepareWavInput shells out
to ffmpeg ("-ar 24000 -ac 1 -acodec pcm_s16le") in a per-call temp
dir, matching the rate the model was trained on; both AudioTranscription
and Diarize now route through it. This is the same shape sherpa-onnx
uses (utils.AudioToWav), but vibevoice needs 24 kHz rather than 16 kHz
so we don't reuse that helper.
2. The C ABI's max_new_tokens defaults to 256 when 0 is passed. That's
fine for a five-second clip but not for anything past ~10 s — vibevoice
stops mid-JSON, the parse fails, and the caller sees a hard error.
Pass a much larger budget (16 384 ≈ ~9 minutes of speech at the
model's ~30 tok/s rate); generation stops at EOS so this is a cap
rather than a target.
3. As a defensive belt-and-braces, mirror AudioTranscription's existing
"fall back to a single segment if the model emits non-JSON text"
pattern in Diarize, so partial / unusual model output never produces
a 500. This kept the endpoint usable while diagnosing (1) and (2),
and is the right behaviour to keep.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
* fix(vibevoice-cpp): pass valid WAVs through directly so ffmpeg is not required at runtime
Spotted by tests-e2e-backend (1.25.x): the previous fix forced every
incoming audio file through `ffmpeg -ar 24000 ...`, which meant the
backend container — which does not ship ffmpeg — failed even for the
existing happy path where the caller already uploads a WAV. The
container-side error was:
rpc error: code = Unknown desc = vibevoice-cpp: ffmpeg convert to
24k mono wav: exec: "ffmpeg": executable file not found in $PATH
Reading vibevoice.cpp's audio_io.cpp, `load_wav_24k_mono` uses drwav and
already accepts any PCM/IEEE-float WAV at any sample rate, downmixes
multi-channel input to mono, and resamples to 24 kHz internally. So the
only inputs that genuinely need an external converter are non-WAV
formats (MP3, OGG, FLAC, ...).
Detect WAVs by RIFF/WAVE magic at bytes 0..3 / 8..11 and pass them
straight through with a no-op cleanup; everything else still goes
through ffmpeg with the same 24 kHz mono s16le target. The result:
* Container builds without ffmpeg keep working for WAV uploads
(the e2e-backends fixture is jfk.wav at 16 kHz mono s16le).
* MP3 and other non-WAV inputs still get the new ffmpeg conversion
path so the diarization endpoint stays useful.
* If the caller uploads a non-WAV but ffmpeg isn't on PATH, the
surfaced error is still descriptive enough to act on.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
* fix(ci): make gcc-14 install in Dockerfile.golang best-effort for jammy bases
The LocalVQE PR (bb033b16) made `gcc-14 g++-14` an unconditional apt
install in backend/Dockerfile.golang and pointed update-alternatives at
them. That works on the default `BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:24.04` (noble has
gcc-14 in main), but every Go backend that builds on
`nvcr.io/nvidia/l4t-jetpack:r36.4.0` — jammy under the hood — now fails
at the apt step:
E: Unable to locate package gcc-14
This blocked unrelated jobs:
backend-jobs(*-nvidia-l4t-arm64-{stablediffusion-ggml, sam3-cpp, whisper,
acestep-cpp, qwen3-tts-cpp, vibevoice-cpp}). LocalVQE itself is only
matrix-built on ubuntu:24.04 (CPU + Vulkan), so it doesn't actually
need gcc-14 anywhere else.
Make the gcc-14 install conditional on the package being available in
the configured apt repos. On noble: identical behaviour to today (gcc-14
installed, update-alternatives points at it). On jammy: skip the
gcc-14 stanza entirely and let build-essential's default gcc take over,
which is what the other Go backends compile with anyway.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
feat(audio-transform): add LocalVQE backend, bidi gRPC RPC, Studio UI
Introduce a generic "audio transform" capability for any audio-in / audio-out
operation (echo cancellation, noise suppression, dereverberation, voice
conversion, etc.) and ship LocalVQE as the first backend implementation.
Backend protocol:
- Two new gRPC RPCs in backend.proto: unary AudioTransform for batch and
bidirectional AudioTransformStream for low-latency frame-by-frame use.
This is the first bidi stream in the proto; per-frame unary at LocalVQE's
16 ms hop would be RTT-bound. Wire it through pkg/grpc/{client,server,
embed,interface,base} with paired-channel ergonomics.
LocalVQE backend (backend/go/localvqe/):
- Go-Purego wrapper around upstream liblocalvqe.so. CMake builds the upstream
shared lib + its libggml-cpu-*.so runtime variants directly — no MODULE
wrapper needed because LocalVQE handles CPU feature selection internally
via GGML_BACKEND_DL.
- Sets GGML_NTHREADS from opts.Threads (or runtime.NumCPU()-1) — without it
LocalVQE runs single-threaded at ~1× realtime instead of the documented
~9.6×.
- Reference-length policy: zero-pad short refs, truncate long ones (the
trailing portion can't have leaked into a mic that wasn't recording).
- Ginkgo test suite (9 always-on specs + 2 model-gated).
HTTP layer:
- POST /audio/transformations (alias /audio/transform): multipart batch
endpoint, accepts audio + optional reference + params[*]=v form fields.
Persists inputs alongside the output in GeneratedContentDir/audio so the
React UI history can replay past (audio, reference, output) triples.
- GET /audio/transformations/stream: WebSocket bidi, 16 ms PCM frames
(interleaved stereo mic+ref in, mono out). JSON session.update envelope
for config; constants hoisted in core/schema/audio_transform.go.
- ffmpeg-based input normalisation to 16 kHz mono s16 WAV via the existing
utils.AudioToWav (with passthrough fast-path), so the user can upload any
format / rate without seeing the model's strict 16 kHz constraint.
- BackendTraceAudioTransform integration so /api/backend-traces and the
Traces UI light up with audio_snippet base64 and timing.
- Routes registered under routes/localai.go (LocalAI extension; OpenAI has
no /audio/transformations endpoint), traced via TraceMiddleware.
Auth + capability + importer:
- FLAG_AUDIO_TRANSFORM (model_config.go), FeatureAudioTransform (default-on,
in APIFeatures), three RouteFeatureRegistry rows.
- localvqe added to knownPrefOnlyBackends with modality "audio-transform".
- Gallery entry localvqe-v1-1.3m (sha256-pinned, hosted on
huggingface.co/LocalAI-io/LocalVQE).
React UI:
- New /app/transform page surfaced via a dedicated "Enhance" sidebar
section (sibling of Tools / Biometrics) — the page is enhancement, not
generation, so it lives outside Studio. Two AudioInput components
(Upload + Record tabs, drag-drop, mic capture).
- Echo-test button: records mic while playing the loaded reference through
the speakers — the mic naturally picks up speaker bleed, giving a real
(mic, ref) pair for AEC testing without leaving the UI.
- Reusable WaveformPlayer (canvas peaks + click-to-seek + audio controls)
and useAudioPeaks hook (shared module-scoped AudioContext to avoid
hitting browser context limits with three players on one page); migrated
TTS, Sound, Traces audio blocks to use it.
- Past runs saved in localStorage via useMediaHistory('audio-transform') —
the history entry stores all three URLs so clicking re-renders the full
triple, not just the output.
Build + e2e:
- 11 matrix entries removed from .github/workflows/backend.yml (CUDA, ROCm,
SYCL, Metal, L4T): upstream supports only CPU + Vulkan, so we ship those
two and let GPU-class hardware route through Vulkan in the gallery
capabilities map.
- tests-localvqe-grpc-transform job in test-extra.yml (gated on
detect-changes.outputs.localvqe).
- New audio_transform capability + 4 specs in tests/e2e-backends.
- Playwright spec suite in core/http/react-ui/e2e/audio-transform.spec.js
(8 specs covering tabs, file upload, multipart shape, history, errors).
Docs:
- New docs/content/features/audio-transform.md covering the (audio,
reference) mental model, batch + WebSocket wire formats, LocalVQE param
keys, and a YAML config example. Cross-links from text-to-audio and
audio-to-text feature pages.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Bash Read Edit Write Agent TaskCreate]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(ci): allow routing apt traffic through an alternate Ubuntu mirror
Adds opt-in APT_MIRROR / APT_PORTS_MIRROR knobs to all Dockerfiles, the
Makefile, and CI workflows so we can fail over to a non-canonical Ubuntu
mirror when archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com
are degraded (recently observed: multi-day DDoS against the default pool).
Defaults are empty everywhere — behavior is unchanged unless a mirror is
configured. To enable in CI, set the repo-level GitHub Actions variables
APT_MIRROR (and APT_PORTS_MIRROR for arm64 builds). Locally:
make docker APT_MIRROR=http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com
A small POSIX-sh helper in .docker/apt-mirror.sh rewrites both DEB822
(/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources, Ubuntu 24.04+) and the legacy
/etc/apt/sources.list before the first apt-get update. Dockerfile stages
load it via RUN --mount=type=bind, so there is no extra layer and no
cache invalidation when the script is unchanged. Reusable workflows also
rewrite the runner's own /etc/apt sources before any sudo apt-get call.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): default to the Azure mirror, visible in the workflow source
Bakes Azure (http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com / http://azure.ports.ubuntu.com)
in as the default for both Docker builds and runner-side apt — rather than
hiding the URL behind a GitHub Actions repo variable that's not visible
from the source tree.
A new composite action at .github/actions/configure-apt-mirror is the
single source of truth for runner-side rewrites. Five standalone
workflows (build-test, release, tests-e2e, tests-ui-e2e, update_swagger)
just `uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror`.
Three workflows (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) keep an
inline bash rewrite, because they install/upgrade git via apt *before*
the checkout step (so the local composite action isn't loadable yet).
The Azure URL is visible in those files too.
The `apt-mirror` / `apt-ports-mirror` inputs of the reusable workflows
keep their now-Azure defaults — they still feed the Docker build-args
block in addition to the inline runner-side rewrite. Callers (image.yml,
image-pr.yml, backend.yml, backend_pr.yml) drop the previous
`vars.APT_MIRROR` plumbing and rely on those defaults.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* ci(apt-mirror): drop Force Install GIT, consolidate on the composite action
The PPA git upgrade ran add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa, which talks
to api.launchpad.net — also part of Canonical's infrastructure and
currently returning HTTP 504. The Azure mirror only covers
archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com, not PPAs.
The system git that ubuntu-latest already ships is sufficient for
actions/checkout and the build pipeline, so just drop the upgrade. With
that gone, the apt-before-checkout constraint disappears too — all three
holdouts (image_build, backend_build, checksum_checker) can now switch
to ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror like the other five.
Net: 0 inline apt-mirror blocks, all 8 workflows route through the
composite action.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(ci): fix AMDGPU_TARGETS empty-string bypass in hipblas builds
399c1dec wired amdgpu-targets through the backend_build workflow_call
interface, intending the input's default value to cover matrix entries
that don't specify targets. However, GitHub Actions only applies a
workflow_call input default when the caller omits the input entirely.
When backend.yml passes `amdgpu-targets: ${{ matrix.amdgpu-targets }}`
and the matrix entry has no amdgpu-targets key, the expression evaluates
to an empty string, which is treated as an explicit value — bypassing
the default. The result is Docker receiving AMDGPU_TARGETS="" which in
turn causes Make's ?= default to be skipped (since the variable is
already set in the environment, even to empty), and cmake gets
-DAMDGPU_TARGETS= with no targets, so the HIP backend compiles for an
indeterminate target rather than the intended GPU list.
Fix this at two levels:
1. backend.yml: use a || fallback in the expression so that an undefined
matrix.amdgpu-targets never reaches the reusable workflow as an empty
string. The target list is the canonical default and lives here.
2. backend_build.yml: remove the now-misleading default value from the
input declaration. The default never fired due to the above bug, so
keeping it implied a guarantee that didn't exist.
3. backend/cpp/llama-cpp/Makefile: add an explicit $(error ...) guard
after the ?= assignment so that if AMDGPU_TARGETS is empty (whether
from environment or any future CI wiring mistake) the build fails
immediately with a clear message rather than silently producing a
binary compiled for an unknown GPU target.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-4-6
Signed-off-by: Russell Sim <rsl@simopolis.xyz>
* fix(build): plumb AMDGPU_TARGETS through to Docker builds
The docker-build-backend Makefile macro and Dockerfile.golang did not
pass AMDGPU_TARGETS to the inner make invocation, so hipblas builds
always used the backend Makefile's hardcoded default GPU targets
regardless of what was specified via environment or CI inputs.
Signed-off-by: Russell Sim <rsl@simopolis.xyz>
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Signed-off-by: Russell Sim <rsl@simopolis.xyz>
* feat(realtime): WebRTC support
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* fix(tracing): Show full LLM opts and deltas
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
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Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
