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LocalAI/core/backend/transcript_live.go
Richard Palethorpe 5d0c43ec6e feat(realtime): Semantic VAD EOU token (#10444)
* feat(realtime): EOU-driven semantic_vad turn detection

Add a `semantic_vad` turn-detection mode to the realtime API that feeds
the transcription model live and decides "the user finished speaking"
from the `<EOU>` end-of-utterance token rather than from silence alone.
When EOU fires the turn commits immediately (~0.3s); otherwise it falls
back to an eagerness-scaled silence threshold (low/med/high = 8/4/2s).

Plumbing, bottom to top:

- proto: `AudioTranscriptionLive` bidirectional RPC (config-first oneof,
  mono float PCM @16k, ready-ack / Unimplemented degrade signal) plus
  `TranscriptResult.eou` for the unary retranscribe gate.
- pkg/grpc: client/server/base/embed scaffolding for the bidi stream,
  modeled on AudioTransformStream; release stream conns on terminal Recv.
- parakeet-cpp: live transcription RPC with per-C-call engine locking
  (one live stream per turn, finalize+free at commit); bump parakeet.cpp
  to ABI v5 — incremental StreamingMel (no more quadratic per-feed mel
  recompute that delayed EOU on long turns) and the <EOU>/<EOB> split;
  strip the literal <EOU>/<EOB> from offline text and set Eou.
- core/backend: LiveTranscriptionSession wrapper + pipeline
  `turn_detection:` config block (type/eagerness/retranscribe).
- realtime: semantic_vad integration — live input captions streamed as
  transcription deltas while the user speaks, EOU-immediate commit with
  eagerness fallback, optional retranscribe gate (batch re-decode must
  also end in <EOU> to confirm), clause synthesis off the LLM token
  callback, and per-turn live-transcription / model_load telemetry.
- UI: show the realtime pipeline components as a vertical list.

Docs and tests included; opt-in via the pipeline YAML or per-session
`session.update`. Non-streaming STT backends degrade to silence-only.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash]
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(realtime): explicit formally-verified state machines + parakeet streaming driver

The realtime API had several implicit state machines whose state was inferred
from scattered booleans, channels, and five separate mutexes, leaving
illegal/inconsistent states reachable. Make them explicit and keep the
implementation in step with a formal design; rework the parakeet streaming
backend along the same lines.

Realtime state machines (M1-M5). Each is a sealed sum-type State/Event/Effect
with a total, pure Next(state,event)->(state,[]effect) behind a single-writer
Coordinator:

  M1 conncoord    connection lifecycle: VAD toggle + once-only teardown
                  (replaces vadServerStarted + a `done` channel closed from
                  two sites).
  M2 turncoord    turn detection: collapses speechStarted and the live-stream
                  "turn open" flag into one state, so discardTurn can no longer
                  desync them and suppress the next onset.
  M3 respcoord    response coordination: serializes the dual-writer
                  start/cancel so at most one response is live; one
                  response.done per response.create.
  M4 compactcoord conversation compaction: single-flight (replaces the
                  `compacting atomic.Bool` CAS).
  M5 ttscoord     TTS pipeline: open->closing->closed, idempotent wait(),
                  rejects enqueue-after-close (was a silent drop).

The Coordinator/Sink/Next plumbing — only the sealed types and Next differed
per machine — is extracted once into core/http/endpoints/openai/coordinator as
a generic Coordinator[S,E,F]; each machine keeps its public API via type
aliases, so no sink, call-site, or test moved.

Hierarchy. session_lifecycle.fizz models M1 as the parent region with its
children (M2/M3/M4) as one statechart and asserts ChildrenDieWithParent (conn
torn => all children terminal, none start after teardown). respcoord and
compactcoord gain an absorbing Terminated state + Shutdown event; conncoord's
teardown drives the children terminal. This closes a compaction teardown gap: a
fire-and-forget compaction could outlive a torn session — compactionSink now
takes a session-scoped cancellable context + WaitGroup and joins the in-flight
summarize+evict on shutdown.

Formal verification. formal-verification/ holds one authoritative FizzBee spec
per machine plus the composition spec, each with an always-assertion and a
documented one-line edit that makes the checker fail (verified non-vacuous).
scripts/realtime-conformance.sh is fail-closed: all Go conformance suites under
-race AND a model-check of every .fizz spec; a missing FizzBee is a hard error
(only the loud REALTIME_CONFORMANCE_SKIP_FIZZBEE=1 bypasses it, never in CI).
FizzBee is pinned by sha256 and installed via scripts/install-fizzbee.sh into
.tools/ (gitignored). Wired as make test-realtime-conformance, a CI workflow,
and a pre-commit path filter. Go conformance tests are Ginkgo/Gomega (per the
repo's forbidigo lint): transition tables + fixed-seed property walks +
concurrent/-race specs, no rapid dependency. Design map:
docs/design/realtime-state-machines.md.

Parakeet streaming backend. The same treatment applied to the parakeet-cpp
streaming paths:
- AudioTranscriptionStream returns codes.Unimplemented for non-streaming models
  instead of decoding offline and emitting it as one delta + final. A client
  that asked for streaming learns the model cannot stream rather than receiving
  a batch result shaped like a stream. New grpcerrors.StreamTranscriptionUnsupported
  carries that signal; the HTTP /v1/audio/transcriptions stream path surfaces it
  as an SSE error event. Mirrors AudioTranscriptionLive, which already did this.
- utteranceBoundary (boundary.go): a single definition of the end-of-utterance
  latch, replacing three open-coded finalEou toggles. Modelled as a two-valued
  type so illegal states are unrepresentable.
- Shared decode driver (driver.go): streamFeedResult (one per-feed event) +
  feedChunk (hides the ABI v4 JSON vs text-only split) + feedSlices + flushTail.
  The feed loop is written once.
- AudioTranscriptionLive becomes a bidi adapter: it streams the per-feed
  {delta,eou,eob,words} the realtime turn detector consumes and a terminal
  FinalResult carrying only Text. Segments/duration/eou are offline-only and no
  longer produced (nor read) on the live path; liveTraceState drops the terminal
  eou and keeps the per-feed eou_events count.
- AudioTranscriptionStream + streamJSON merge into one driver-based function;
  streamSegmenter is generalized to the unified event with a text-only fallback
  that preserves the legacy (no-words) library's per-utterance segmentation.

Verified: build/vet/gofumpt clean, golangci-lint 0 issues, all coordinator and
parakeet packages under -race, the fail-closed conformance gate green, and
make test-realtime (12 e2e WS+WebRTC).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

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Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-06-30 09:01:22 +02:00

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package backend
import (
"context"
"errors"
"fmt"
"io"
"maps"
"sync"
"time"
"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/core/config"
"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/core/schema"
"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/core/trace"
grpcPkg "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc"
"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/model"
"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/sound"
"github.com/mudler/xlog"
)
// LiveTranscriptionEvent is one streamed event from a live (bidirectional)
// transcription session. Delta/Eou/Eob/Words arrive as the user speaks; Final
// is set exactly once, on the terminal event after Close flushes the decode
// tail. Eou means the model judged the user yielded the turn; Eob means a
// backchannel ("uh-huh") ended — callers must NOT treat Eob as a turn
// boundary.
type LiveTranscriptionEvent struct {
Delta string
Eou bool
Eob bool
Words []schema.TranscriptionWord
Final *schema.TranscriptionResult
}
// LiveTranscriptionSession is a handle on an open live transcription stream.
// Feed pushes 16 kHz mono float PCM; Close signals end-of-audio, waits for
// the backend's terminal Final event to be delivered, and releases the
// stream.
type LiveTranscriptionSession interface {
Feed(pcm []float32) error
Close() error
}
// liveCloseDrainTimeout bounds how long Close waits for the backend to flush
// the decode tail before force-cancelling the stream. Finalize is one short
// engine call; seconds here means the backend is wedged.
const liveCloseDrainTimeout = 10 * time.Second
type liveTranscriptionSession struct {
stream grpcPkg.AudioTranscriptionLiveClient
cancel context.CancelFunc
recvDone chan struct{}
recvErr error // written by the recv goroutine before recvDone closes
closeOnce sync.Once
closeErr error
trace *liveTraceState // nil when tracing was disabled at open
}
func (s *liveTranscriptionSession) Feed(pcm []float32) error {
s.trace.addPCM(pcm)
return s.stream.Send(&proto.TranscriptLiveRequest{
Payload: &proto.TranscriptLiveRequest_Audio{Audio: &proto.TranscriptLiveAudio{Pcm: pcm}},
})
}
func (s *liveTranscriptionSession) Close() error {
s.closeOnce.Do(func() {
err := s.stream.CloseSend()
select {
case <-s.recvDone:
case <-time.After(liveCloseDrainTimeout):
xlog.Warn("live transcription: backend did not finalize in time; cancelling stream")
s.cancel()
<-s.recvDone
}
s.cancel()
if err == nil {
err = s.recvErr
}
s.closeErr = err
s.trace.record(err)
})
return s.closeErr
}
// liveSampleRate is the PCM rate of a live transcription session, fixed by
// the session config sent in ModelTranscriptionLive.
const liveSampleRate = 16000
// liveTraceState accumulates what the per-turn backend trace needs while a
// live session runs: a bounded copy of the fed PCM for the audio snippet,
// the decode outputs, and timing. One trace is recorded at Close — the live
// path never touches the unary transcription wrapper, so without this a
// streaming-only pipeline produced no transcription traces at all. Feed and
// the recv goroutine run concurrently; mu guards the accumulators.
type liveTraceState struct {
appConfig *config.ApplicationConfig
modelName string
backend string
language string
started time.Time
mu sync.Mutex
pcm []byte // first trace.MaxSnippetSeconds of fed audio, int16 LE
fedSamples int // ALL samples fed, beyond the snippet cap
deltaEvents int
eouEvents int
eobEvents int
finalText string
}
func newLiveTraceState(modelConfig config.ModelConfig, appConfig *config.ApplicationConfig, language string) *liveTraceState {
if !appConfig.EnableTracing {
return nil
}
trace.InitBackendTracingIfEnabled(appConfig.TracingMaxItems, appConfig.TracingMaxBodyBytes)
return &liveTraceState{
appConfig: appConfig,
modelName: modelConfig.Name,
backend: modelConfig.Backend,
language: language,
started: time.Now(),
}
}
func (ts *liveTraceState) addPCM(pcm []float32) {
if ts == nil {
return
}
ts.mu.Lock()
defer ts.mu.Unlock()
ts.fedSamples += len(pcm)
maxBytes := trace.MaxSnippetSeconds * liveSampleRate * 2
if room := (maxBytes - len(ts.pcm)) / 2; room > 0 {
if len(pcm) > room {
pcm = pcm[:room]
}
ts.pcm = append(ts.pcm, sound.Float32sToInt16LEBytes(pcm)...)
}
}
func (ts *liveTraceState) observe(ev LiveTranscriptionEvent) {
if ts == nil {
return
}
ts.mu.Lock()
defer ts.mu.Unlock()
if ev.Delta != "" {
ts.deltaEvents++
}
if ev.Eou {
ts.eouEvents++
}
if ev.Eob {
ts.eobEvents++
}
if ev.Final != nil {
ts.finalText = ev.Final.Text
}
}
func (ts *liveTraceState) record(closeErr error) {
if ts == nil || !ts.appConfig.EnableTracing {
return
}
ts.mu.Lock()
data := map[string]any{
"source": "live_stream",
"language": ts.language,
"result_text": ts.finalText,
"eou_events": ts.eouEvents,
"eob_events": ts.eobEvents,
"delta_events": ts.deltaEvents,
}
if snippet := trace.AudioSnippetFromPCM(ts.pcm, liveSampleRate, ts.fedSamples*2, ts.appConfig.TracingMaxBodyBytes); snippet != nil {
maps.Copy(data, snippet)
}
summary := "live -> " + ts.finalText
ts.mu.Unlock()
bt := trace.BackendTrace{
Timestamp: ts.started,
Duration: time.Since(ts.started),
Type: trace.BackendTraceTranscription,
ModelName: ts.modelName,
Backend: ts.backend,
Summary: trace.TruncateString(summary, 200),
Data: data,
}
if closeErr != nil {
bt.Error = closeErr.Error()
}
trace.RecordBackendTrace(bt)
}
// ModelTranscriptionLive loads the transcription backend, opens the
// bidirectional AudioTranscriptionLive RPC, sends the session config, and
// BLOCKS until the backend's ready ack. A grpcerrors.
// IsLiveTranscriptionUnsupported error means the backend (or the loaded
// model) cannot do live transcription and the caller should degrade to the
// unary/file path. After a successful return, onEvent is invoked from a
// background goroutine — in order, one event at a time — for every response
// the backend streams, ending with the Final event triggered by Close.
func ModelTranscriptionLive(ctx context.Context, language string,
ml *model.ModelLoader, modelConfig config.ModelConfig, appConfig *config.ApplicationConfig,
onEvent func(LiveTranscriptionEvent)) (LiveTranscriptionSession, error) {
transcriptionModel, err := loadTranscriptionModel(ctx, ml, modelConfig, appConfig)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
// The derived cancel out-lives this call inside the session: Close uses
// it to unwind the stream (and, in embed mode, the server-side recv
// pump, which only stops on send-close or context cancellation).
streamCtx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
stream, err := transcriptionModel.AudioTranscriptionLive(streamCtx)
if err != nil {
cancel()
return nil, err
}
fail := func(err error) (LiveTranscriptionSession, error) {
_ = stream.CloseSend()
cancel()
return nil, err
}
if err := stream.Send(&proto.TranscriptLiveRequest{
Payload: &proto.TranscriptLiveRequest_Config{Config: &proto.TranscriptLiveConfig{
Language: language,
SampleRate: liveSampleRate,
}},
}); err != nil {
return fail(err)
}
// Ready-ack contract: the backend answers a successful open with a
// {ready:true} response before any transcript data; unsupported
// backends surface Unimplemented here instead.
ack, err := stream.Recv()
if err != nil {
return fail(err)
}
if !ack.GetReady() {
return fail(fmt.Errorf("live transcription: backend %q broke the ready-ack contract (first response carried data)", modelConfig.Backend))
}
s := &liveTranscriptionSession{
stream: stream,
cancel: cancel,
recvDone: make(chan struct{}),
trace: newLiveTraceState(modelConfig, appConfig, language),
}
go func() {
defer close(s.recvDone)
for {
resp, err := stream.Recv()
if err != nil {
if !errors.Is(err, io.EOF) && streamCtx.Err() == nil {
xlog.Warn("live transcription stream ended unexpectedly", "error", err)
s.recvErr = err
}
return
}
ev := liveEventFromProto(resp)
if ev.Delta == "" && !ev.Eou && !ev.Eob && len(ev.Words) == 0 && ev.Final == nil {
continue // duplicate ready ack / keep-alive: nothing to deliver
}
s.trace.observe(ev)
onEvent(ev)
}
}()
return s, nil
}
func liveEventFromProto(r *proto.TranscriptLiveResponse) LiveTranscriptionEvent {
ev := LiveTranscriptionEvent{
Delta: r.GetDelta(),
Eou: r.GetEou(),
Eob: r.GetEob(),
}
for _, w := range r.GetWords() {
ev.Words = append(ev.Words, schema.TranscriptionWord{
Start: time.Duration(w.Start),
End: time.Duration(w.End),
Text: w.Text,
})
}
if r.GetFinalResult() != nil {
ev.Final = transcriptResultFromProto(r.GetFinalResult())
}
return ev
}