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Ettore Di Giacinto 7467b51281 test(gallery): expect speaker_recognition on the bundles with a voice component
The parakeet-cpp backend now answers VoiceEmbed and VoiceVerify, so the
pinning test asserts the usecase on the entries that declare it instead of
its absence. Document voice_verify_threshold.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5
2026-10-05 23:48:20 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto e9af44b90b docs(voice): document a parakeet-cpp bundle as the embedding model
Describe the bundle as an embedding model for /v1/voice/*, the realtime
voice_recognition stage, and the limits: identify and plain verify only,
a 256-dimension space shared with voice-detect-wespeaker-resnet34, and the
libparakeet.so symbol it needs.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5
2026-10-05 23:46:14 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 04df10a082 docs(voice): document speaker naming through a bundle component
Cover speaker_component: and speaker_tag: in the audio-to-text option
tables and bundle section, add a section to the voice recognition page
that explains which registered voices a bundle component receives, and
update the speaker_name condition in the realtime and diarization pages.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5
2026-10-05 23:45:14 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto a2c498359b fix(voice): keep one voice store per embedding dimension
The in-memory local-store rejects vectors of another size than the ones
it holds. With 192-value voices registered, adding a 256-value voice
failed, and identifying with a 256-value probe returned an error.

The registry now keeps one store per embedding dimension. The first
dimension seen uses the configured store name, so single-encoder
instances are unchanged. Later dimensions use "<name>-<dim>". Identify
searches only the store of the probe size and returns no match when no
voice of that size exists. Forget finds the store from the stored
embedding. A name may hold one voice per encoder.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 golangci-lint
2026-10-05 23:42:49 +00:00
mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto 79a7631cc5 feat(parakeet-cpp): encoder fingerprint for speaker naming, VAD trim and word filter options, pin bump (#12491)
* chore(parakeet-cpp): bump parakeet.cpp to 2de154c

Brings in the speaker registry encoder fingerprint, the VAD segment trim
and the opt-in word filter, a fix for a per-call thread count that stayed
set on the process-wide backend after a Silero VAD pass, and bundle
components loaded from memory.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

* feat(parakeet-cpp): encoder fingerprint for speaker naming, vad_trim and guard_* options

Speaker naming. A registered voice now carries the encoder that made it:
the embedding family (voicedetect:<arch>:<name>:<dim>) and the sha256 of
the weights. The backend reports the family of the loaded speaker model in
Status, voice enrollment from speaker_profiles stores it as encoder_family
(old entries load without it), and the registry sent to parakeet.cpp is
built with parakeet_capi_speaker_registry_add_embedding_fp. The library
then refuses a registry of another encoder family and the error names both
families; another quantization of the same family only warns. A voice with
only a weights hash gets the loaded family when the hashes are equal.

Voices without a fingerprint (registered from audio: libvoicedetect cannot
report one) keep the file-name rule and are used with a warning. The
library cannot mix them with fingerprinted voices in one registry, so a
request that has any uses the old registry for all. speaker_strict:true
drops them instead. A library without the symbols behaves as before.

Transcription. vad_trim (seconds, 0 keeps the whole cuts) goes through the
VAD options JSON, so it reaches /v1/vad and the segmenter. The guard_*
options guard_min_local_conf, guard_local_radius and guard_drop_punct_only
turn on the word filter through parakeet_capi_transcribe_path_json_with,
or through the segmenter with vad:true. They are off by default, bad
values fail the load, and a library without the symbol fails it with a
clear message. The dropped word count is logged at debug level.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-10-05 15:57:16 +02:00
mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto 9eb5a9e61d feat(audio): remember speakers from diarization (#12414)
* feat(schema): validate portable speaker profiles

Add the versioned profile schema for explicit speaker enrollment.
Validate compatibility against separately supplied loaded-encoder metadata.
Reject unusable speakers, invalid vectors, and inconsistent clean spans.

This slice does not change HTTP routes, backend integration, or the UI.

Assisted-by: OpenAI:unknown
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(parakeet): export profiles with transcripts

Export opt-in speaker profiles and trusted encoder metadata.
Replay registrations by ID so duplicate display names keep independent
vectors.

Use one profile-capable diarization for slots, names, and clean spans.
Assign timestamped ASR words to those slots without a second diarization.
Preserve legacy opt-out and no-ASR behavior, and propagate failures.

Assisted-by: OpenAI:unknown
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(audio): enroll portable speaker profiles

Gate profile exports with voice-recognition permission and validate
registration against metadata from the loaded encoder. Preserve audio
enrollment and independent registrations with duplicate display names.

Exclude diarization and registration exchanges before API trace capture
so persisted traces cannot retain profile vectors or JSON audio.

Defer candidate dimensions to trusted loaded metadata. Sort candidates
by registration ID so incompatible profiles cannot suppress legacy voices
through registry iteration order. Keep portable identity checks closed
when trusted metadata is unavailable.

Test persisted traces, explicit slot zero, and selection through offline
and live transport. Document privacy and the ephemeral registry lifecycle.

Assisted-by: OpenAI:unknown
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(ui): remember speakers from diarization

Add a Studio page for diarization and opt-in speaker profiles. Preview
clean intervals from the original recording before explicit registration.

Join profiles by raw speaker labels, preserve duplicate names, and relabel
turns only after a successful save. Discard stale results when the model
or recording changes. Share registration metadata with voice management
without storing vectors or recordings from this flow.

Document permissions and the global, ephemeral registry. Cover enrollment,
permissions, previews, and asynchronous races with mocked Playwright tests.

Assisted-by: OpenAI:unknown
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: clarify HTTP speaker enrollment support

Replace the stale enrollment limitation with the current HTTP workflow.
Distinguish native transport from explicit registration and link its docs.

Assisted-by: OpenAI:unknown
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* chore(parakeet): pin merged speaker profile support

Use the merged commit from mudler/parakeet.cpp#80.
Its tree matches the previously accepted native pin.

Assisted-by: OpenAI:unknown
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: add diarization enrollment setup example

Connect the existing gallery modes to the speaker enrollment workflow.
Show installation, private profile export, explicit raw-slot registration,
and later recognition without another export.

Assisted-by: OpenAI:unknown
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs(blog): explain diarization speaker profiles

Put the diarization walkthrough on the LocalAI website in the feature PR.
Cover the three gallery modes, explicit enrollment, and privacy limits.
Link setup instructions and keep availability conditional on feature support.

Assisted-by: OpenAI:unknown
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs(blog): focus diarization on everyday use

Explain what users can do with recordings before the setup steps.
Replace the technical walkthrough with a short Studio guide and link
readers to the existing reference for model names and developer use.

Assisted-by: OpenAI:unknown
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs(blog): lead with speaker capabilities

Present speaker recognition through everyday uses and a short UI flow.
Keep technical reference details in the existing documentation.

Assisted-by: OpenAI:unknown
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(diarization): satisfy Go lint checks

Avoid copying protobuf message state when extending backend status, check the multipart reader close result, and document the focused testing.T lint exemptions.

Assisted-by: nib:gpt-5.6-sol

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-10-02 08:14:00 +02:00
localai-org-maint-botandEttore Di Giacinto 2ae6cae70d feat(parakeet-cpp): name speakers from the shared voice registry (#12382)
* feat(voice): list registered voices and record which encoder made them

The voice registry could register, identify and forget but not list, and
it did not remember which speaker encoder produced an embedding. Add
Metadata.Model and Registry.List, answered from the index the store
registry already keeps for Forget. Needed so a backend can be given the
registered voices that match its own speaker encoder.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

* feat(voice): store the encoder model with a registered voice

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

* feat(voice): pick the registered voices that match a speaker model

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

* feat(proto): carry known voices and speaker names on diarize and live messages

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-haiku-4-5 [Claude Code]

* feat(diarization): name speakers from the voice registry

When a diarization model has a speaker_model option, the endpoint sends
the registered voices made by that encoder to the backend. The backend's
name and name_score come back as extra fields next to the normalized
SPEAKER_NN speaker, and the speakers summary carries the first name seen
for each speaker. RTTM output and results without names are unchanged.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

* feat(live): pass registered voices to a live session and surface speaker names

Live sessions now send the registered voices that match the model's
speaker_model to the backend, and each speaker segment carries the name
the backend matched. The realtime segment event gains an optional
speaker_name field.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

* feat(parakeet-cpp): load a speaker model and build per-request voice registries

Adds the speaker bindings (ABI v9 and v10, probed separately), the
speaker_model, speaker_threshold and speaker_margin options, and a
per-request registry builder over the known voices.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

* feat(parakeet-cpp): name the speakers in Diarize from the known voices

Diarize builds a per-request speaker registry from the known voices when a
speaker model is loaded, calls the named C functions, and puts each slot's
registered name and score on the segments. The registry is freed on every
path. A library without ABI 10 reports Unimplemented instead of dropping
the names.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

* feat(parakeet-cpp): name speakers in the live scene stream

The live scene stream now begins with a known-voice registry when a
speaker model is loaded and the live config carries voices, and each
closed speaker segment takes its slot's current name from the feed's
names map. A segment that closes before its slot is identified has an
empty name. The registry is freed after the stream, on every path.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

* feat(gallery): speaker naming entries and docs for parakeet-cpp

Add three gallery entries that load the WeSpeaker ResNet34 speaker model
next to the diarization or realtime scene models, and document speaker
names in the voice recognition, diarization, audio to text and realtime
pages.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

* fix(parakeet-cpp): skip an unusable registered voice instead of failing the request

A registered voice with the wrong embedding size, or one the C side
refused, failed the whole diarization request, so one legacy voice broke
the model for every user. Skip such voices with a warning that does not
carry the voice name, and take the plain path when none is left.

Also map an exact 0 speaker threshold or margin to a tiny positive value,
since the C side reads 0 as "use the default", and fix a stale comment
about which contexts Free() walks.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

* fix(diarization): warn once per model about voices from another encoder; document the privacy limit

The different-encoder warning fired on every request. Log it once per
feature and speaker model, then at debug level. Document that the global
voice registry lets any caller of a speaker_model model learn matching
names, and that skipped wrong-sized voices are logged.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

* chore(parakeet-cpp): bump parakeet.cpp to 8c8cec0 (C-API v10) and check speaker naming against the real library

The pin moves from 623a968 to 8c8cec0, which brings in everything merged
in parakeet.cpp since: the voice identification change (C-API v9, #78) and
raw-embedding enroll plus diarize-only speaker naming (C-API v10, #79).

New real-library specs (gated on PARAKEET_BACKEND_TEST_SPEAKER_MODEL,
_DIAR_MODEL, _WAV and, for the live path, _STREAM_MODEL) name the two
speakers of two_speakers.wav from a committed pair of WeSpeaker embeddings,
with the voices passed in reversed order. They also check that the float32
threshold reaches C through purego. The shared test loader now registers
the v9/v10 and scene symbols as main.go does.

The rebase onto origin/master had no conflicts.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [Claude Code]

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-10-01 08:25:52 +02:00
localai-org-maint-botandlocalai-org-maint-bot 1e0baec2a7 fix(ci): repair nightly backend dep bumps for renamed localai-org repos (#11012)
The "Bump Backend dependencies" workflow has failed every night for over
ten days. Four upstreams — ced.cpp, moss-transcribe.cpp, voice-detect.cpp
and rf-detr.cpp — moved from the mudler org to localai-org, so the GitHub
API answers 301 for the old slugs. ced.cpp additionally renamed its
default branch to main.

bump_deps.sh fetched without -L or -f and never checked the response, so
the redirect's JSON body was passed straight to sed, which died with
"unterminated `s' command". The loud failure was luck: an error body
without slashes would have been substituted into the Makefile as the new
pin, silently corrupting the version and shipping it in a bump PR.

Point the matrix at the new slugs and branch, and harden the script so a
bad response can never reach sed: follow redirects, fail on HTTP errors,
and require a bare 40-hex SHA before rewriting anything. Also refresh the
now-stale repository URLs in the backend Makefiles, test scripts,
backend/index.yaml and the docs.

Verified all 25 matrix entries resolve to a commit SHA and that the four
previously-failing jobs run end to end against the real API.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

Co-authored-by: localai-org-maint-bot <306269227+localai-org-maint-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-21 09:40:10 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto 40d35c0385 docs: onboarding overhaul, dedup, and error docs (#7711) (#10895)
* docs: fix CPU image tag (latest, not latest-cpu)

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: use canonical localai/localai registry in models guide

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: replace dead llama-stable backend with llama-cpp

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: correct mitm-proxy intercept config and redaction tier

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: fix text-to-audio endpoint and broken notice block

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: fix VAD example, stale FAQ, broken link, CLI list, whats-new dump

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: render advanced/reference section indexes (consolidate _index)

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: remove duplicate getting-started build/kubernetes pages

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: fold container image reference into installation/containers

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: remove stale advanced fine-tuning page (superseded by features/fine-tuning)

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: fold distribution/longcat/sound pages into their parents

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: make getting-started index accurate and complete

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: carry one concrete model through the getting-started path

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: add end-to-end 'build your first agent' walkthrough

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: add runtime errors reference; consolidate troubleshooting from FAQ

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: add agent actions catalog

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: agent-scoped MCP, skills walkthrough, agentic disambiguation

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: add concrete gallery install lines to media feature pages

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: merge installation into getting-started (URLs preserved via aliases)

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: add Operations section; move operator pages and P2P API reference

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: journey-ordered top nav and grouped feature sections

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: add docs-with-code process gate (PR template + agent instructions)

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: remove em/en dashes from documentation prose

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-17 22:08:20 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto de2ec2f136 feat(backends): add voice-detect + face-detect ggml backends (replace Python insightface/speaker-recognition) (#10441)
* feat(voice-detect): add Go purego backend for voice-detect.cpp

Add backend/go/voice-detect implementing the Backend gRPC voice subset
(VoiceEmbed/VoiceVerify/VoiceAnalyze) over libvoicedetect.so via purego,
mirroring the parakeet-cpp / omnivoice-cpp backends.

The flat voicedetect_capi C ABI is dlopen'd cgo-less; malloc'd string and
float-vector returns are owned by Go and released through the matching capi
free functions, with the per-ctx last error surfaced into Go errors. Calls are
serialized via base.SingleThread since the C context is not reentrant.

Proto field mapping:
- VoiceEmbed: VoiceEmbedRequest.audio (path) -> embed_path -> Embedding+Model.
- VoiceVerify: audio1/audio2 + threshold (<=0 falls back to the
  verify_threshold option, default 0.25) -> verify_paths -> verified/distance/
  threshold/confidence/model/processing_time_ms.
- VoiceAnalyze: audio (path) -> analyze_path_json; the JSON age/gender/emotion
  document maps to a single VoiceAnalysis segment (start/end 0; gender "label"
  -> dominant_gender with the remaining float scores as the gender map; emotion
  label/scores -> dominant_emotion/emotion).

The Makefile pins voice-detect.cpp to 47546430, clones+builds libvoicedetect.so
with ggml static-linked (PIC, GGML_NATIVE off) so dlopen needs no external
libggml/libvoicedetect; ldd on the artifact shows only system libs. Ginkgo
tests cover option parsing and analyze-JSON mapping; embed/verify smoke specs
gate on VOICEDETECT_BACKEND_TEST_MODEL + VOICEDETECT_BACKEND_TEST_WAV.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* feat(voice-detect): wire backend into index, gallery and build

Register the voice-detect.cpp speaker-recognition + voice-analysis
backend (added in Voice-INT-A) into LocalAI's distribution surfaces,
mirroring the ced backend (the closest mudler C++/ggml audio analogue):

- backend/index.yaml: add the &voicedetect meta-backend (capabilities
  platform map, no top-level uri) plus the full set of concrete per-arch
  image entries (cpu/cuda12/cuda13/metal/rocm/sycl/vulkan/l4t and the
  -development variants). Referential integrity audited - every alias
  target resolves.
- gallery/index.yaml: add 5 model entries on backend voice-detect -
  ECAPA-TDNN, WeSpeaker ResNet34, 3D-Speaker ERes2Net, CAM++ and the
  wav2vec2 age/gender/emotion analyze model. The engine architecture is
  read from GGUF metadata (voicedetect.arch) at load. GGUF artifacts are
  not yet published: each files: entry points at the intended
  mudler/voice-detect-gguf location with a TODO to fill sha256 after
  upload (no fabricated hashes).
- .github/backend-matrix.yml: add the linux build matrix block + the
  darwin metal entry mirroring ced.
- .github/workflows/bump_deps.yaml: track mudler/voice-detect.cpp via
  VOICEDETECT_VERSION (pin 47546430, = 4754643).
- core/config/backend_capabilities.go: register voice-detect in the
  backend capability map (VoiceVerify/VoiceEmbed/VoiceAnalyze ->
  speaker_recognition), mirroring speaker-recognition.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* feat(face-detect): add purego Go backend for face-detect.cpp

Add the LocalAI Go backend that dlopens libfacedetect.so (the flat
facedetect_capi_* C-ABI) via purego, mirroring the sibling voice-detect
backend. Implements the Face subset of the Backend gRPC service:

- Embeddings(PredictOptions): Images[0] base64 -> temp file -> embed_path
  -> L2-normalized ArcFace embedding.
- Detect(DetectOptions): src -> detect_path_json -> Detection boxes
  (class_name "face", [x1,y1,x2,y2] -> x/y/w/h).
- FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest): two images + threshold + anti_spoof ->
  verify_paths; best-effort img areas via detect.
- FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest): img -> analyze_path_json -> per-face
  age + gender ("M"/"F" normalized to "Man"/"Woman").

The Makefile pins face-detect.cpp to 636a1963 and builds the shared lib
with ggml + vendored libjpeg-turbo static (PIC), so the .so is
ldd-clean (no libggml) and exports only facedetect_capi_* (no jpeg_
symbols). Gated Ginkgo e2e mirrors voice-detect.

Note for the gallery-wiring task: backend registration (index.yaml,
gallery, core/config/backend_capabilities.go) is intentionally not
touched here.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* fix(voice-detect): replace em dashes in net-new descriptions

Project style forbids em/en dashes. Replace the three U+2014 chars
introduced by the voice-detect gallery/index wiring with `-`/`:`.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* feat(face-detect): wire backend into index, gallery and build

Register the face-detect.cpp face detection / embedding / verification /
analysis backend (added in Face-INT-A) into LocalAI's distribution
surfaces, mirroring the voice-detect wiring (the closest mudler C++/ggml
recognition analogue):

- backend/index.yaml: add the &facedetect meta-backend (capabilities
  platform map, no top-level uri to avoid the meta-backend gotcha) plus
  the full set of concrete per-arch image entries (cpu/cuda12/cuda13/
  metal/rocm/sycl-f16/sycl-f32/vulkan/l4t and the -development variants),
  22 entries. Referential integrity audited: every alias target resolves.
- gallery/index.yaml: add 4 model entries on backend face-detect -
  face-detect-buffalo-l/m/s (insightface SCRFD + ArcFace/MBF, NON-COMMERCIAL)
  and face-detect-yunet-sface (OpenCV-Zoo YuNet + SFace, APACHE-2.0, the
  commercial-friendly alternative). The detector/embedder architecture is
  read from GGUF metadata (facedetect.arch) at load; only the real
  verify_threshold option is set (0.35 buffalo, 0.363 sface). GGUF
  artifacts are not yet published: each files: entry points at the
  intended mudler/face-detect-gguf location with a TODO to fill sha256
  after upload (no fabricated hashes).
- core/config/backend_capabilities.go: register face-detect in the
  backend capability map (Embedding/Detect/FaceVerify/FaceAnalyze ->
  face_recognition), mirroring insightface.
- .github/backend-matrix.yml: add the linux build matrix block + the
  darwin metal entry mirroring voice-detect.
- .github/workflows/bump_deps.yaml: track mudler/face-detect.cpp via
  FACEDETECT_VERSION (pin 636a1963).

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* fix(recon): voice-detect metal build branch + face-detect gallery usecases

Add the missing metal BUILD_TYPE branch to the voice-detect Makefile
forwarding -DVOICEDETECT_GGML_METAL=ON, mirroring face-detect, so the
darwin metal CI artifact is built with the Metal backend instead of
CPU-only.

Expand the 4 face-detect gallery models' known_usecases to
[face_recognition, detection, embeddings] to match the backend
capabilities map and the mirrored insightface-buffalo entries, so
auto-selection for /v1/detect and /embeddings works.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* docs(recon): document voice-detect and face-detect ggml backends

Document the new standalone C++/ggml biometric backends as the
recommended/default option for face and voice recognition, keeping the
existing Python insightface / speaker-recognition backends framed as the
legacy path.

- features/face-recognition.md: add a face-detect (ggml) backend section
  with the gallery entries (buffalo-l/m/s non-commercial, yunet-sface
  Apache-2.0), licensing, and verify/detect/analyze quickstart.
- features/voice-recognition.md: add a voice-detect (ggml) backend
  section with the gallery entries (ecapa-tdnn, wespeaker-resnet34,
  eres2net, campplus speaker recognizers; emotion-wav2vec2 non-commercial
  analyze head) and quickstart.
- reference/compatibility-table.md: add face-detect.cpp and
  voice-detect.cpp rows to the Vision, Detection & Recognition table.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(gallery): publish recon backend GGUF uris + sha256

Fill in the published HuggingFace GGUF uris and verified sha256 for the
9 recon gallery entries (voice-detect-* and face-detect-*), and remove
the TODO publish markers. Correct the eres2net, campplus, and
emotion-wav2vec2 uris to the actual published filenames.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* feat(gallery): re-embed buffalo anti-spoof + add audeering age/gender voice model

Update the 3 buffalo face-detect GGUF sha256 (anti-spoof ensemble now
embedded and re-uploaded under the same filenames/uris) and note the
FaceVerify anti_spoof request flag in each description. Add a new
voice-detect-age-gender-wav2vec2 gallery entry mirroring the emotion
model.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* feat(gallery): add face-detect-buffalo-sc and antelopev2 packs

Add gallery entries for two newly-published insightface face packs on
the face-detect backend: buffalo_sc (smallest pack, SCRFD-500M + small
ArcFace) and antelopev2 (higher-accuracy, SCRFD-10G + ArcFace glint360k
R100, 512-d). Both are non-commercial research-only.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* feat(recon): honor LocalAI per-model threads in voice/face-detect backends

LocalAI spawns one backend process per model and serves requests
concurrently, so the engines' own min(hardware_concurrency, 8) default
can oversubscribe cores. Forward the per-model Threads value from the
gRPC LoadModel options into the engine via VOICEDETECT_THREADS /
FACEDETECT_THREADS (read at backend construction) before the capi load.
A non-positive Threads is treated as unset, leaving the engine default.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump backend pins to CPU-optimized engine commits

voice-detect.cpp -> 0d9c1b3 (radix-2 FFT FBank, threads, flash attn + cached
pos-conv); face-detect.cpp -> 523aee1 (thread-gated direct conv, threads).
Brings the CPU optimizations into the LocalAI backend builds. GGUF format and
parity unchanged, so the published HF GGUFs remain valid.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump backend pins to round-2 CPU-optimized engines

voice-detect.cpp -> fe7e6a3 (ERes2Net 1x1->mul_mat, CAM++ layout+context,
wav2vec2 conv-LN, ECAPA capture-drop, AVX512 dispatch opt-in); face-detect.cpp
-> 9c8adb7 (AVX2 Winograd F(2x2,3x3) for SCRFD/ArcFace 3x3 convs, ArcFace
BN-fold). Parity unchanged (cosine=1.0); GGUF format unchanged, HF GGUFs valid.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump backend pins to round-3 Winograd engines

voice-detect.cpp -> 45122ec (Winograd F(2x2,3x3) for WeSpeaker/ERes2Net 3x3
convs, -22%/-20% @8t); face-detect.cpp -> cd5c962 (Winograd F(4x4,3x3) for
SCRFD large maps, -22% @1t on top of F(2x2), more load-stable). Parity held
(cosine=1.0); GGUF format unchanged, HF GGUFs valid.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump backend pins to round-4 Winograd engines (CPU opt complete)

voice-detect.cpp -> d2839ca (CAM++ FCM 2D convs through Winograd, -15.5%/-10.3%);
face-detect.cpp -> c1db23d (AVX2-vectorized Winograd tile transforms, SCRFD
detect -14%/-9.6%). Final CPU optimization round; the conv-kernel lever class is
now exhausted (parity held cosine=1.0; GGUF/parity unchanged, HF GGUFs valid).

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump face-detect pin to deep-kernel engine (7ae5c4d)

face-detect.cpp -> 7ae5c4d: register-blocked winograd-domain GEMM microkernel
(2.8x isolated GFLOP/s), AVX-512 zmm evolution behind runtime CPUID dispatch
(ship-safe, AVX2 fallback bit-identical), bias/relu fused into the winograd
output transform, and SFace Conv+BN fold + bias/PReLU fusion. SCRFD detect
~1.4x faster end-to-end vs the round-4 baseline; parity bit-exact; portable
single binary (function-multiversioned, no global -mavx512f).

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump voice-detect pin to ECAPA operand-order win (e9c56ae)

voice-detect.cpp -> e9c56ae: weight-as-src0 mul_mat order in ECAPA's F32
conv1d_same (routes through tinyBLAS sgemm); ECAPA embed 1.67x @1t / ~1.3x @8t,
parity cosine=1.0. Isolated to encoder.cpp (ECAPA-only); ERes2Net/CAM++/WeSpeaker
do not call conv1d_same so are provably unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump pins to FMA-throughput engines (voice f7b9f89, face 2d2d5f0)

face -> 2d2d5f0: route ArcFace 3x3 body convs through the AVX-512 winograd
microkernel (kWinoMinSize 80->14); ArcFace 1.62x @1t, SCRFD detect to 0.966 of
MLAS @1t, no regression. voice -> f7b9f89: runtime-CPUID-dispatched AVX-512
winograd-GEMM microkernel (ship-safe, AVX2 fallback bit-identical); WeSpeaker
1.90x @1t. Parity cosine=1.0 throughout; portable single binaries.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump pins to MLAS-class direct-conv engines (voice 7ecfd07, face be22d67)

Hand-tuned nChw16c AVX-512 register-tiled direct-conv microkernel (~263 GFLOP/s,
within 6-7% of MLAS per-op efficiency), runtime-CPUID-dispatched + AVX2 fallback,
fused bias/relu. voice 7ecfd07: default 3x3-s1 kernel for WeSpeaker (+37%/+32%)
+ ERes2Net, CAM++ pinned to Winograd. face be22d67: shape-gated to the ArcFace
recognizer body (+25-27% @8t); SCRFD detector stays on Winograd (no regression).
Parity cosine=1.0 / detect <=1px on AVX-512 + AVX2 paths. Portable single binaries.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump voice pin to Phase-A blocked backbone (f4e7eef)

WeSpeaker ResNet34 runs as one nChw16c blocked island (2 reorders/forward vs
~60) on AVX-512, default; per-conv directconv fallback on AVX2. +2.9% @1t /
+17-19% @8t vs per-conv directconv, parity cosine=1.0. The conv microkernel is
already FMA-bound near peak (~0.86-0.98x MLAS-implied); residual to MLAS is
sub-peak edge + non-conv tail, documented in docs/cpu-optimization.md.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump pins to breadth blocked-backbone (voice 7f66871, face d80092b)

voice 7f66871: AVX2-vectorized (ymm) blocked island - AVX2-only hosts now run
the blocked backbone for WeSpeaker (2.3x over per-conv-AVX2, cosine=1.0);
ERes2Net stays per-conv (blocked regresses, opt-in only); CAM++ Winograd-pinned.
face d80092b: ArcFace recognizer blocked island, AVX-512 default (-13% @8t, ~0.90x
MLAS, the closest conv result), auto per-conv on AVX2; SCRFD untouched on Winograd
(0 island invocations during detect). Parity cosine=1.0 / detect <=1px throughout.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump pins to small-spatial + stem conv kernels (voice 99b1804, face 47fdab6)

Measured-gap-driven conv kernels: small-spatial (fill the register tile when
output width <= tile width) + small-IC stem + strided-1x1/downsample recovery.
ArcFace recognizer 0.57 -> 0.70x MLAS @1t (the closest conv model), WeSpeaker
0.65 -> 0.79x @1t. Parity cosine=1.0 / detect <=1px. The OC-block-sharing lever
was a measured dead-end (deep stride-1 is L3-weight-bandwidth bound, not
read-port bound) and was NOT shipped. Kernel ceiling reached; further gap needs
an algorithm-class change (cache-blocked weight-stationary GEMM, or q8 weights).

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump pins to GPU persistent-graph + multi-model-safe cache (voice 45d2e6b, face 0a4799a)

GPU wins (CUDA/ggml backend, no CPU-path change): persistent per-shape graph+context
cache in Backend::compute() eliminates the per-call cudaGraph re-instantiation churn
-> wav2vec2 emotion+age-gender now AT GPU parity with torch-cuDNN on GB10 (0.97-0.98x),
CAM++ -5.7ms; bit-identical parity. Cache hardened multi-model-safe (invalidate-on-free
keyed by the ModelLoader weights buffer) so LocalAI multi-model hosting cannot stale-hit.
Conv models still trail cuDNN (im2col-materialization-bound) - cuDNN implicit-GEMM lever next.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump pins to cuDNN-conv-capable engines (voice b6e4356, face 6107a24)

Adds the opt-in cuDNN implicit-GEMM conv path (VOICEDETECT_GGML_CUDNN /
FACEDETECT_GGML_CUDNN, DEFAULT OFF -> zero build/runtime dep until enabled).
On GPU it kills the im2col-materialization bottleneck and reaches torch-cuDNN
parity on the spill-bound convs: SCRFD detect 14.8->6.4ms (2.3x, ~parity),
WeSpeaker ~parity, ERes2Net beats torch (1.10x); ArcFace/CAM++ neutral (no
spill). Parity exact (SCRFD <=1px, cosine=1.0). To USE it in LocalAI, the CUDA
backend build must enable the flag AND bundle libcudnn - deferred until a
cuDNN-bundled GPU image; flag stays OFF here.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* feat(recon): enable cuDNN conv path on arm64+CUDA13 recon backends

The voice-detect.cpp / face-detect.cpp engines have an opt-in cuDNN
implicit-GEMM conv path behind VOICEDETECT_GGML_CUDNN / FACEDETECT_GGML_CUDNN
(default OFF) that kills im2col on the GPU and reaches torch-cuDNN parity
(SCRFD 2.3x, WeSpeaker/ERes2Net parity), measured on the GB10
(arm64, CUDA 13, sm_121a).

Enable it for the CUDA build, but only where cuDNN actually ships: the
arm64 + CUDA 13 image (GB10/Jetson/L4T). x86 CUDA images carry no cuDNN,
so flipping it on globally for BUILD_TYPE=cublas would be a link failure.
The Makefiles gate on CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=13 + arch (TARGETARCH from the
matrix/Docker build, uname -m fallback for local builds).

backend/Dockerfile.golang already installs the runtime libcudnn9-cuda-13
in the arm64+CUDA13 apt block; add the matching libcudnn9-dev-cuda-13 so
the build-time link resolves.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): bump voice-detect pin to ERes2Net blocked-default (30beecd)

Defaults VD_ERES2NET_BLOCKED ON: routes the ERes2Net Res2Net body through the
blocked nChw16c AVX-512 directconv island instead of the 1x1 mul_mat fast path
(CONT-transpose + skinny low-K GEMM). On the shipped GGML_NATIVE=OFF build (ggml
mul_mat is AVX2-only) this wins ~2x at every thread count (2.07x@1t, 2.2x@4t,
2.05x@8t); pure-AVX2 fallback still 1.3-1.62x. Parity exact (cosine=1.000000 vs
golden), so registered voices + verify/identify thresholds are unaffected. The
prior default-OFF rested on a stale comment whose 23pct regression only held on
the non-shipping GGML_NATIVE=ON build.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* docs(readme): announce native voice-detect + face-detect backends in Latest News

Add a Latest News entry for the new from-scratch C++/ggml biometric backends
(voice-detect.cpp + face-detect.cpp) that replace the Python insightface and
speaker-recognition backends: no Python/onnxruntime at inference, self-contained
GGUF, bit-exact parity, GPU cuDNN parity. Mirrors the parakeet.cpp /
locate-anything.cpp native-backend news entries. Refs PR #10441.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

* chore(recon): re-pin to the squashed engine release commits

The voice-detect.cpp and face-detect.cpp histories were squashed to a single
release commit, which orphaned the previous pins (voice 30beecd, face 6107a24).
Re-pin to the new single-commit SHAs (voice 3d51077, face 06914b0); the tree is
identical, so the backend build is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-28 09:29:08 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto 7e59a5c7c5 docs: architecture & feature diagrams (blueprint style) (#10137)
* docs: add 'how LocalAI works' architecture diagram

Add a blueprint-style architecture diagram: clients -> small core (API,
router, WebUI, agents) -> gRPC -> backend processes pulled on demand as
OCI images. Place it on the overview page and replace the stale external
architecture image on the reference page.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: add blueprint diagrams across feature, distributed & getting-started docs

Add 24 architecture/flow/comparison diagrams (PNG + HTML source) under
docs/static/images/diagrams/, wired into their docs pages, from an
impact-vs-effort audit of the docs. Broaden the API surface on the
overview architecture diagram (OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Ollama,
and LocalAI's own API) and move the gRPC boundary label clear of the arrows.

Pages: distributed mode (architecture, scheduling, ds4 layer-split),
distributed inferencing, MLX, realtime, quantization, MCP, agents,
mitm & cloud proxy, middleware, reverse-proxy TLS, VRAM, voice & face
recognition, reranker, function calling, fine-tuning (recipe + jobs),
diarization, audio transform, quickstart, model resolution.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: add composable-core diagram to README hero

Commit the composable-core card (small core + on-demand backend tiles)
alongside the other diagrams and reference it from the README hero via a
repo-relative path, so it renders on GitHub.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: fix composable-core connectors/badge and federated-vs-worker layout

- composable-core: thicken the plug-in connectors so they read clearly, and
  widen the SEPARATE IMAGE badge so its text no longer overflows the box.
- federated-vs-worker: shorten the WHOLE/SPLIT REQUEST pills to fit, and
  replace the tangled node-to-node activation arrows with a clean fan-out
  (request split across all sharded nodes), mirroring the federated panel.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-02 18:43:22 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto fbe4f0a99b fix(docs): replace Docsy alert shortcode with Relearn notice
The docs site uses the hugo-theme-relearn theme, which provides
`notice` instead of Docsy's `alert`. The face-recognition,
voice-recognition, and stores feature pages used `{{% alert %}}`,
breaking `hugo build` with "template for shortcode \"alert\" not
found".

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-04-25 21:04:31 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 181ebb6df4 feat: voice recognition (#9500)
* feat(voice-recognition): add /v1/voice/{verify,analyze,embed} + speaker-recognition backend

Audio analog to face recognition. Adds three gRPC RPCs
(VoiceVerify / VoiceAnalyze / VoiceEmbed), their Go service and HTTP
layers, a new FLAG_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION capability flag, and a Python
backend scaffold under backend/python/speaker-recognition/ wrapping
SpeechBrain ECAPA-TDNN with a parallel OnnxDirectEngine for
WeSpeaker / 3D-Speaker ONNX exports.

The kokoros Rust backend gets matching unimplemented trait stubs —
tonic's async_trait has no defaults, so adding an RPC without Rust
stubs breaks the build (same regression fixed by eb01c772 for face).

Swagger, /api/instructions, and the auth RouteFeatureRegistry /
APIFeatures list are updated so the endpoints surface everywhere a
client or admin UI looks.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7

* feat(voice-recognition): add 1:N identify + register/forget endpoints

Mirrors the face-recognition register/identify/forget surface. New
package core/services/voicerecognition/ carries a Registry interface
and a local-store-backed implementation (same in-memory vector-store
plumbing facerecognition uses, separate instance so the embedding
spaces stay isolated).

Handlers under /v1/voice/{register,identify,forget} reuse
backend.VoiceEmbed to compute the probe vector, then delegate the
nearest-neighbour search to the registry. Default cosine-distance
threshold is tuned for ECAPA-TDNN on VoxCeleb (0.25, EER ~1.9%).

As with the face registry, the current backing is in-memory only — a
pgvector implementation is a future constructor-level swap.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7

* feat(voice-recognition): gallery, docs, CI and e2e coverage

- backend/index.yaml: speaker-recognition backend entry + CPU and
  CUDA-12 image variants (plus matching development variants).
- gallery/index.yaml: speechbrain-ecapa-tdnn (default) and
  wespeaker-resnet34 model entries. The WeSpeaker SHA-256 is a
  deliberate placeholder — the HF URI must be curl'd and its hash
  filled in before the entry installs.
- docs/content/features/voice-recognition.md: API reference + quickstart,
  mirrors the face-recognition docs.
- React UI: CAP_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION flag export (consumers follow face's
  precedent — no dedicated tab yet).
- tests/e2e-backends: voice_embed / voice_verify / voice_analyze specs.
  Helper resolveFaceFixture is reused as-is — the only thing face/voice
  share is "download a file into workDir", so no need for a new helper.
- Makefile: docker-build-speaker-recognition + test-extra-backend-
  speaker-recognition-{ecapa,all} targets. Audio fixtures default to
  VCTK p225/p226 samples from HuggingFace.
- CI: test-extra.yml grows a tests-speaker-recognition-grpc job
  mirroring insightface. backend.yml matrix gains CPU + CUDA-12 image
  build entries — scripts/changed-backends.js auto-picks these up.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7

* feat(voice-recognition): wire a working /v1/voice/analyze head

Adds AnalysisHead: a lazy-loading age / gender / emotion inference
wrapper that plugs into both SpeechBrainEngine and OnnxDirectEngine.

Defaults to two open-licence HuggingFace checkpoints:
  - audeering/wav2vec2-large-robust-24-ft-age-gender (Apache 2.0) —
    age regression + 3-way gender (female / male / child).
  - superb/wav2vec2-base-superb-er (Apache 2.0) — 4-way emotion.

Both are optional and degrade gracefully when transformers or the
model can't be loaded — the engine raises NotImplementedError so the
gRPC layer returns 501 instead of a generic 500.

Emotion classes pass through from the model (neutral/happy/angry/sad
on the default checkpoint); the e2e test now accepts any non-empty
dominant gender so custom age_gender_model overrides don't fail it.

Adds transformers to the backend's CPU and CUDA-12 requirements.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7

* fix(voice-recognition): pin real WeSpeaker ResNet34 ONNX SHA-256

Replaces the placeholder hash in gallery/index.yaml with the actual
SHA-256 (7bb2f06e…) of the upstream
Wespeaker/wespeaker-voxceleb-resnet34-LM ONNX at ~25MB. `local-ai
models install wespeaker-resnet34` now succeeds.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7

* fix(voice-recognition): soundfile loader + honest analyze default

Two issues surfaced on first end-to-end smoke with the actual backend
image:

1. torchaudio.load in torchaudio 2.8+ requires the torchcodec package
   for audio decoding. Switch SpeechBrainEngine._load_waveform to the
   already-present soundfile (listed in requirements.txt) plus a numpy
   linear resample to 16kHz. Drops a heavy ffmpeg-linked dep and the
   codepath we never exercise (torchaudio's ffmpeg backend).

2. The AnalysisHead was defaulting to audeering/wav2vec2-large-robust-
   24-ft-age-gender, but AutoModelForAudioClassification silently
   mangles that checkpoint — it reports the age head weights as
   UNEXPECTED and re-initialises the classifier head with random
   values, so the "gender" output is noise and there is no age output
   at all. Make age/gender opt-in instead (empty default; users wire
   a cleanly-loadable Wav2Vec2ForSequenceClassification checkpoint via
   age_gender_model: option). Emotion keeps its working Superb default.
   Also broaden _infer_age_gender's tensor-shape handling and catch
   runtime exceptions so a dodgy age/gender head never takes down the
   whole analyze call.

Docs and README updated to match the new policy.

Verified with the branch-scoped gallery on localhost:
- voice/embed    → 192-d ECAPA-TDNN vector
- voice/verify   → same-clip dist≈6e-08 verified=true; cross-speaker
                   dist 0.76–0.99 verified=false (as expected)
- voice/register/identify/forget → round-trip works, 404 on unknown id
- voice/analyze  → emotion populated, age/gender omitted (opt-in)

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7

* fix(voice-recognition): real CI audio fixtures + fixture-agnostic verify spec

Two issues surfaced after CI actually ran the speaker-recognition e2e
target (I'd curl-tested against a running server but hadn't run the
make target locally):

1. The default BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_* URLs pointed at
   huggingface.co/datasets/CSTR-Edinburgh/vctk paths that return 404
   (the dataset is gated). Swap them for the speechbrain test samples
   served from github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/raw/develop/ —
   public, no auth, correct 16kHz mono format.

2. The VoiceVerify spec required d(file1,file2) < 0.4, assuming
   file1/file2 were same-speaker. The speechbrain samples are three
   different speakers (example1/2/5), and there is no easy un-gated
   source of true same-speaker audio pairs (VoxCeleb/VCTK/LibriSpeech
   are all license- or size-gated for CI use). Replace the ceiling
   check with a relative-ordering assertion: d(pair) > d(same-clip)
   for both file2 and file3 — that's enough to prove the embeddings
   encode speaker info, and it works with any three non-identical
   clips. Actual speaker ordering d(1,2) vs d(1,3) is logged but not
   asserted.

Local run: 4/4 voice specs pass (Health, LoadModel, VoiceEmbed,
VoiceVerify) on the built backend image. 12 non-voice specs skipped
as expected.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7

* fix(ci): checkout with submodules in the reusable backend_build workflow

The kokoros Rust backend build fails with

    failed to read .../sources/Kokoros/kokoros/Cargo.toml: No such file

because the reusable backend_build.yml workflow's actions/checkout
step was missing `submodules: true`. Dockerfile.rust does `COPY .
/LocalAI`, and without the submodule files the subsequent `cargo
build` can't find the vendored Kokoros crate.

The bug pre-dates this PR — scripts/changed-backends.js only triggers
the kokoros image job when something under backend/rust/kokoros or
the shared proto changes, so master had been coasting past it. The
voice-recognition proto addition re-broke it.

Other checkouts in backend.yml (llama-cpp-darwin) and test-extra.yml
(insightface, kokoros, speaker-recognition) already pass
`submodules: true`; this brings the shared backend image builder in
line.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
2026-04-23 12:07:14 +02:00