@bill10/agent-007 0.12.2002 → 0.12.2003

package/.env.example

@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@
 # Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > System voice > Manage Voices),
 # else say's default. A voice that is not installed is logged and skipped.
 # SAY_VOICE=Ava (Premium)
+# How fast it speaks, in words per minute (120-300). Unset: 205, a little faster
+# than say's own 175.
+# SAY_RATE=205
 # Your voice notes are transcribed with whisper.cpp (brew install whisper-cpp).
 # WHISPER_MODEL is the full path to a ggml model, e.g. ggml-base.en.bin;
 # WHISPER_CPP_BIN only if whisper-cli is not on PATH. Unset: voice notes get a

package/VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.12.2.2
+0.12.2.3

package/bin/agent-007.js

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Settings (default in brackets):
                           voice (macOS say + ffmpeg) [mirror]
   SAY_VOICE               macOS voice for that, from say -v '?' [best
                           installed English Premium/Enhanced voice]
+  SAY_RATE                How fast it speaks, words per minute, 120-300 [205]
   WHISPER_MODEL           whisper.cpp model file; your voice notes are
                           transcribed locally [off]
   WHISPER_CPP_BIN         whisper.cpp CLI if not on PATH [whisper-cli]

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@bill10/agent-007",
-  "version": "0.12.2002",
+  "version": "0.12.2003",
   "description": "From web terminals for your coding agents to a self-running agent company: Claude Code and Codex in parallel git worktrees, a job board they pick work from, and one agent that runs the board from a goal.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "repository": {

package/server/owner.js

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import { CONFIG_DIR } from './state.js';
 import { liveBillion } from './billion.js';
 import { sendText } from './messages.js';
 import {
-  chooseMode, voiceSetting, speechUnavailable, synthesize, sayVoice, whisperSetup, transcribe, MAX_NOTE_SECONDS, MAX_NOTE_BYTES,
+  chooseMode, voiceSetting, speechUnavailable, synthesize, sayVoice, sayRate, whisperSetup, transcribe, MAX_NOTE_SECONDS, MAX_NOTE_BYTES,
 } from './voice.js';
 
 export const MAX_NOTIFY_CHARS = 3000;          // Telegram's own limit is 4096
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ export function startTelegram({ broadcast, env = process.env } = {}) {
   if (!chatId) console.log('  Telegram: send any message to your bot, then set TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=<id> (the id is shown here when it arrives)');
   else console.log('  Telegram: on');
   if (voiceSetting(env) !== 'never' && !speechUnavailable(env)) {
-    sayVoice(env).then(v => console.log(`  Telegram: speaking with ${v ? `the ${v} voice` : "say's default voice"}`));
+    sayVoice(env).then(v => console.log(`  Telegram: speaking with ${v ? `the ${v} voice` : "say's default voice"} at ${sayRate(env)} wpm`));
   }
   const controller = new AbortController();
   stopper = controller;

package/server/voice.js

@@ -120,13 +120,26 @@ export function sayVoice(env = process.env) {
   return voicePick;
 }
 
+// SAY_RATE in words per minute, 120–300. Unset: 205, about 15% faster than
+// say's own 175, which the owner found a little slow on Ava (Premium).
+export const DEFAULT_SAY_RATE = 205;
+let ratePick;
+export function sayRate(env = process.env) {
+  if (ratePick) return ratePick;
+  const raw = (env.SAY_RATE || '').trim();
+  const n = Number(raw);
+  if (raw && !Number.isInteger(n)) console.log(`  Telegram: SAY_RATE "${raw}" is not a whole number of words per minute; using ${DEFAULT_SAY_RATE}`);
+  ratePick = raw && Number.isInteger(n) ? Math.min(300, Math.max(120, n)) : DEFAULT_SAY_RATE;
+  return ratePick;
+}
+
 // text → OGG/Opus bytes. URLs are said as "link"; the caption carries them.
 export function synthesize(text, env = process.env) {
   return inTempDir(async dir => {
     const txt = join(dir, 'say.txt'), aiff = join(dir, 'say.aiff'), ogg = join(dir, 'say.ogg');
     await writeFile(txt, text.replace(URL_RE, 'link'));
     const voice = await sayVoice(env);
-    await run('say', [...(voice ? ['-v', voice] : []), '-o', aiff, '-f', txt]);
+    await run('say', [...(voice ? ['-v', voice] : []), '-o', aiff, '-r', String(sayRate(env)), '-f', txt]);
     await run('ffmpeg', ['-y', '-loglevel', 'error', '-protocol_whitelist', 'file', '-i', aiff, '-c:a', 'libopus', '-b:a', '32k', ogg]);
     return readFile(ogg);
   });