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LocalAI [bot] 892fc49949 feat(realtime): stream the LLM / TTS / transcription pipeline stages (#10176)
* feat(realtime): pipeline streaming + disable_thinking config

Add a nested pipeline.streaming.{llm,tts,transcription} block plus
pipeline.disable_thinking, with StreamLLM/StreamTTS/StreamTranscription/
ThinkingDisabled helpers. Pointer-bools so unset keeps the unary path;
existing configs are unaffected. Wiring into the realtime handler follows.

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

* feat(realtime): sentence segmenter for streamed LLM->TTS pipelining

streamSegmenter accumulates streamed LLM tokens and emits complete
sentence/clause segments (terminator+whitespace, or newline) so TTS can
synthesize each segment as it completes instead of waiting for the whole
reply. Pure helper; the streaming handler wiring consumes it next.

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

* feat(realtime): streaming TTS/transcription methods on Model interface

Add TTSStream and TranscribeStream to the realtime Model interface and
implement them on wrappedModel (delegating to backend.ModelTTSStream /
ModelTranscriptionStream) and transcriptOnlyModel. ttsStream adapts the
backend's WAV-framed stream (44-byte header carrying the sample rate, then
PCM) into raw PCM + sample rate for the realtime transports. Handler wiring
that consumes these (flag-gated) follows.

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

* feat(realtime): emitSpeech with flag-gated streaming TTS

emitSpeech synthesizes a piece of text and forwards audio to the client,
streaming one output_audio.delta per backend PCM chunk when the pipeline
sets streaming.tts, or one delta for the whole utterance otherwise. WebRTC
gets raw PCM (it resamples internally); WebSocket gets base64 PCM at the
session rate. It emits no transcript/audio-done events so a streamed reply
can be split into multiple spoken segments sharing one response.

Adds fakeModel/fakeTransport test doubles for the realtime Model/Transport
interfaces, driving streaming assertions deterministically.

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

* feat(realtime): route response audio through emitSpeech (streaming TTS)

Replace the inline unary TTS block in the response handler with emitSpeech,
which streams a response.output_audio.delta per backend PCM chunk when
pipeline.streaming.tts is set and otherwise preserves the single-delta unary
behaviour. emitSpeech returns the accumulated base64 audio, stored on the
conversation item as before. Transcript and audio-done events stay in the
handler so later per-segment streaming can reuse emitSpeech.

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

* feat(realtime): streaming transcription text deltas

Add emitTranscription and route commitUtterance through it. With
pipeline.streaming.transcription set it streams each transcript fragment as
a conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.delta via TranscribeStream
then a completed event; otherwise it preserves the single completed-event
unary behaviour. Returns the final transcript for response generation.

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

* feat(realtime): pipeline disable_thinking maps to enable_thinking off

applyPipelineThinking forces the LLM's ReasoningConfig.DisableReasoning when
pipeline.disable_thinking is set, which gRPCPredictOpts turns into the
enable_thinking=false backend metadata. Applied at newModel construction on
the per-session LLM config copy, so it doesn't leak to other model users and
needs no realtime-specific request plumbing.

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

* feat(realtime): speechStreamer for token-streamed LLM->TTS

emitSpeech now returns raw PCM (caller base64-encodes) so streamed segments
accumulate correctly. speechStreamer consumes streamed LLM tokens: it strips
reasoning via the streaming ReasoningExtractor, emits a transcript delta per
content fragment, and sentence-pipes content into emitSpeech so each sentence
is synthesized as soon as it's ready. Handler wiring (plain-content turns)
follows.

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

* feat(realtime): wire streamLLMResponse for token-streamed replies

triggerResponseAtTurn takes a streamed path when pipeline.streaming.llm is
set, the turn has no tools, and audio is requested: streamLLMResponse
announces the assistant item, drives the LLM token callback through a
speechStreamer (reasoning-stripped transcript deltas + sentence-piped TTS),
and emits the terminal events. Tool turns and non-streaming pipelines keep
the existing buffered path unchanged, so this is strictly opt-in.

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

* docs(realtime): document pipeline streaming + disable_thinking

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

* fix(realtime): register pipeline streaming/thinking config fields

TestAllFieldsHaveRegistryEntries (core/config/meta) requires every config
field to have a meta registry entry. The four new pipeline fields
(disable_thinking, streaming.{llm,tts,transcription}) had none, failing
tests-linux/tests-apple. Add toggle entries for them.

Also handle the os.Remove return in realtime_speech_test.go to satisfy
errcheck (golangci-lint).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go test, golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(realtime): always strip reasoning from spoken output

disable_thinking maps to ReasoningConfig.DisableReasoning=true on the LLM
config, which the backend reads as enable_thinking=false. But the realtime
handler reads that SAME config to drive reasoning extraction, and there
DisableReasoning=true means "skip stripping". PredictConfig() returns this
LLM config, so both the streamed (speechStreamer) and buffered realtime
paths stopped stripping <think>…</think> exactly when disable_thinking was
on — leaking raw reasoning to the client whenever the model ignored the
enable_thinking hint (e.g. lfm2.5).

Add spokenReasoningConfig() which clears DisableReasoning for extraction
(keeping custom tokens/tag pairs) and route both realtime paths through it.
Spoken output now always strips reasoning, independent of the backend
suppression hint.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go test, golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(realtime): clean TTS temp path before read (gosec G304)

emitSpeech reads the WAV file the TTS backend wrote. The read moved here
from realtime.go, so code-scanning flagged it as a new G304 alert even
though the path is backend-controlled (a temp file), not user input.
Wrap it in filepath.Clean — a real path normalization that also clears
the alert, keeping with the repo's no-#nosec convention.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 gosec, golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(realtime): buffer whole message for TTS, drop sentence segmenter

Per review (richiejp): the sentence segmenter pipelined unary TTS by
splitting on ASCII .!?/newline, which does nothing for languages without
those boundaries (CJK/Thai) — there it already degraded to buffering the
whole message anyway.

Replace it with a uniform model: stream the LLM transcript live, buffer the
full message, then synthesize it once. emitSpeech already streams the audio
chunks when the backend implements TTSStream and falls back to a single
unary delta otherwise, so this is real streaming TTS where supported and a
clean whole-message synthesis elsewhere — no per-sentence emulation, no
language assumptions. speechStreamer becomes transcriptStreamer (transcript
deltas only); the whole-message synthesis moves into streamLLMResponse.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go test, golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(realtime): stream tool-call turns via tokenizer-template autoparser

Per review (richiejp): tool-call deltas exist, so streaming should work with
tools too. It does — for models that use their tokenizer template. The C++
autoparser then clears reply.Message and delivers content + tool calls via
ChatDeltas, so the streamed transcript carries only spoken content (no
tool-call JSON leak) and the tool calls are parsed from the final response.

- Drop the len(tools)==0 gate; stream when no tools OR use_tokenizer_template
  (grammar-based function calling still buffers, since its call is emitted as
  JSON in the token stream and would leak into the transcript).
- streamLLMResponse takes tools/toolChoice/toolTurn, reads ChatDelta content
  in the token callback, parses tool calls from the final ChatDeltas, and
  creates the assistant content item lazily so a content-less tool turn emits
  only the tool calls.
- Extract emitToolCallItems from the buffered path so both paths finalize tool
  calls, response.done, and server-side assistant-tool follow-ups identically.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go test, golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(realtime): script-aware clause chunking + streamed-reply fixes

Opt-in pipeline.streaming.clause_chunking splits the streamed LLM reply
into speakable clauses and synthesizes each as soon as it completes,
lowering time-to-first-audio instead of buffering the whole message. The
splitter is script-aware (rivo/uniseg, pure Go): UAX#29 sentence
segmentation handles CJK 。!? with no whitespace, CJK clause
punctuation (,、;:) and Thai/Lao spaces give finer cuts, and a UAX#14
line-break cap bounds an over-long punctuation-less run. Unlike the old
ASCII .!?/newline segmenter (dropped in 076dcdbe) it does not degrade to
whole-message buffering for CJK/Thai; scripts needing a dictionary
(Khmer/Burmese) stay buffered until a space or end-of-message. Clauses
are synthesized synchronously in the token callback (the LLM keeps
generating into the gRPC stream meanwhile), so audio still starts
mid-generation. Off by default — the whole-message path is unchanged.

Also fix the streamed-reply path and the Talk page:

- Don't swallow streamed autoparser content as reasoning: the
  tokenizer-template path already delivers reasoning-free content via
  ChatDeltas, so prefilling the thinking start token re-tagged it as an
  unclosed reasoning block, leaving no spoken reply. Disable the prefill
  on that path; closed tag pairs are still stripped (#9985).

- Generate collision-free realtime IDs (16 random bytes) instead of a
  constant, so per-item bookkeeping (cancel, conversation.item.retrieve)
  works.

- Key the Talk transcript by the server item_id and upsert entries.
  Realtime events arrive over a WebRTC data channel — outside React's
  event system — so React defers the setTranscript updaters while
  synchronous ref writes in handler bodies run first; the old
  index-tracking ref rendered a duplicate assistant bubble on
  completion. Upserts by item_id are idempotent and order-independent.

- Drop the partial assistant bubble on a cancelled response (barge-in):
  the server discards the interrupted item and sends response.done with
  status "cancelled"; mirror that in the UI so the regenerated reply
  isn't rendered as a second assistant message.

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

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-06-11 08:43:12 +01:00
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