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LocalAI/backend/go/parakeet-cpp/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 main
import (
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/grpcerrors"
pb "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
"github.com/mudler/xlog"
"google.golang.org/grpc/codes"
"google.golang.org/grpc/status"
)
// liveSampleRate is the only PCM rate the parakeet C streaming API accepts.
const liveSampleRate = 16000
// AudioTranscriptionLive drives one cache-aware streaming session over audio
// fed incrementally by the caller (the realtime API's semantic_vad turn
// detection). Contract:
//
// - the first request must carry a Config; a Config mid-stream resets the
// decode session (free + begin) and drops accumulated transcript state;
// - a Ready ack is sent right after a successful stream_begin so callers
// can degrade synchronously when the model has no streaming support
// (LiveTranscriptionUnsupported, codes.Unimplemented);
// - every feed that produced output is forwarded as {delta, eou, words};
// the <EOU>/<EOB> flag is the model's own utterance boundary and the
// decoder auto-resets after it, so one session spans many utterances;
// - closing the send side finalizes: the held-back tail chunk is flushed
// (the last ~2 encoder frames of words only appear here) and a terminal
// FinalResult carries the full transcript Text only. Per-utterance
// segments, duration, and the terminal <EOU> flag are NOT produced here —
// the realtime core consumes the streamed per-feed tokens and the final
// Text; those batch fields are the file path's concern (see
// AudioTranscriptionStream).
//
// Engine access is serialized per C call (streamBegin/streamFeed*/streamFree
// take engineMu internally), never for the session lifetime — unary
// transcription keeps flowing between feeds.
func (p *ParakeetCpp) AudioTranscriptionLive(in <-chan *pb.TranscriptLiveRequest, out chan<- *pb.TranscriptLiveResponse) error {
defer close(out)
if p.ctxPtr == 0 {
return grpcerrors.ModelNotLoaded("parakeet-cpp")
}
first, ok := <-in
if !ok {
return nil // caller closed without sending anything
}
cfg := first.GetConfig()
if cfg == nil {
return status.Error(codes.InvalidArgument, "parakeet-cpp: first live message must carry a config")
}
if err := validateLiveConfig(cfg); err != nil {
return err
}
stream, err := p.streamBegin(cfg.GetLanguage())
if err != nil {
return err
}
if stream == 0 {
return grpcerrors.LiveTranscriptionUnsupported("parakeet-cpp",
"loaded model is not a cache-aware streaming model")
}
// stream is reassigned on a mid-stream Config reset; free whatever is
// current when the RPC unwinds.
defer func() { p.streamFree(stream) }()
out <- &pb.TranscriptLiveResponse{Ready: true}
var (
full strings.Builder
fedSecs float64
// behindSec accumulates how far decode wall time has fallen behind
// the audio it was fed. A live caller feeds in real time, so a
// persistent positive backlog means every downstream signal —
// including the <EOU> the turn detector waits on — arrives that many
// seconds late. Warned once per session; reset by a Config reset.
behindSec float64
behindWarned bool
)
// emit forwards one decode increment: it streams the per-feed tokens the
// realtime turn detector consumes (delta/eou/eob/words) and accumulates the
// running transcript for the closing FinalResult. No segmentation or
// boundary latch here — the live consumer reads only the streamed tokens
// and the final Text; per-utterance segments and the terminal <EOU> flag
// are an offline-path concern (see AudioTranscriptionStream / boundary.go).
emit := func(r streamFeedResult) error {
if r.Delta != "" {
full.WriteString(r.Delta)
}
if r.Delta != "" || r.Eou || r.Eob || len(r.Words) > 0 {
out <- &pb.TranscriptLiveResponse{
Delta: r.Delta,
Eou: r.Eou,
Eob: r.Eob,
Words: liveWordsToProto(r.Words),
}
}
return nil
}
for req := range in {
switch payload := req.GetPayload().(type) {
case *pb.TranscriptLiveRequest_Config:
if err := validateLiveConfig(payload.Config); err != nil {
return err
}
// Reset: a fresh decode session, dropping accumulated state.
p.streamFree(stream)
stream, err = p.streamBegin(payload.Config.GetLanguage())
if err != nil {
return err
}
if stream == 0 {
return grpcerrors.LiveTranscriptionUnsupported("parakeet-cpp",
"loaded model is not a cache-aware streaming model")
}
full.Reset()
fedSecs = 0
case *pb.TranscriptLiveRequest_Audio:
pcm := payload.Audio.GetPcm()
audioSec := float64(len(pcm)) / liveSampleRate
fedSecs += audioSec
start := time.Now()
// nil ctx: a live session is bounded by this request channel, not a
// context — cancellation is the caller closing the stream.
if err := p.feedSlices(nil, stream, pcm, emit); err != nil {
return err
}
wallSec := time.Since(start).Seconds()
behindSec += wallSec - audioSec
if behindSec < 0 {
behindSec = 0
}
xlog.Debug("parakeet-cpp: live feed",
"audio_ms", int(audioSec*1000), "wall_ms", int(wallSec*1000),
"behind_ms", int(behindSec*1000), "fed_s", fedSecs)
if behindSec > 1 && !behindWarned {
behindWarned = true
xlog.Warn("parakeet-cpp: live decode is falling behind real time; "+
"end-of-utterance signals will arrive late",
"behind_s", behindSec, "fed_s", fedSecs)
}
}
}
// Send side closed: flush the streaming tail and emit the final transcript.
// The live FinalResult carries only Text — the authoritative full-turn
// transcript the realtime core commits. Per-utterance segments, duration,
// and the terminal <EOU> flag are not produced on the live path.
if err := p.flushTail(stream, emit); err != nil {
return err
}
out <- &pb.TranscriptLiveResponse{
FinalResult: &pb.TranscriptResult{Text: strings.TrimSpace(full.String())},
}
return nil
}
func validateLiveConfig(cfg *pb.TranscriptLiveConfig) error {
if sr := cfg.GetSampleRate(); sr != 0 && sr != liveSampleRate {
return status.Errorf(codes.InvalidArgument,
"parakeet-cpp: unsupported live sample_rate %d (only %d)", sr, liveSampleRate)
}
return nil
}
func liveWordsToProto(words []transcriptWord) []*pb.TranscriptWord {
if len(words) == 0 {
return nil
}
out := make([]*pb.TranscriptWord, len(words))
for i, w := range words {
out[i] = &pb.TranscriptWord{
Start: secondsToNanos(w.Start),
End: secondsToNanos(w.End),
Text: w.W,
}
}
return out
}