@elizaos/plugin-local-inference 2.0.0-beta.1 → 2.0.3-beta.3

package/src/services/voice/real-audio-decode.test.ts

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+import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { decodeMonoPcm16Wav, encodeMonoPcm16Wav } from "./engine-bridge";
+
+/**
+ * Real-audio coverage for the front of the single FFI pipe: the WAV → PCM
+ * decoder every transcription path feeds (`decodeMonoPcm16Wav`), exercised
+ * against the committed real WAV files rather than synthetic in-memory buffers.
+ *
+ * Two real corpora:
+ *   1. `native/verify/asr_bench_fixtures/non_publish_structure_5utt/` — five
+ *      committed mono 16 kHz PCM16 WAVs (deterministic tones, NOT speech — see
+ *      the corpus manifest; valid for decode/codec validation, NOT for WER).
+ *   2. `native/omnivoice.cpp/examples/freeman.wav` — a real 22.05 kHz speech
+ *      recording. Lives in a git submodule, so the block is skipped when the
+ *      submodule isn't checked out.
+ */
+
+const FIXTURE_DIR = fileURLToPath(
+	new URL(
+		"../../../native/verify/asr_bench_fixtures/non_publish_structure_5utt/",
+		import.meta.url,
+	),
+);
+
+interface FixtureManifest {
+	realRecorded: boolean;
+	files: Array<{
+		id: string;
+		reference: string;
+		wav: string;
+		txt: string;
+		sampleRateHz: number;
+	}>;
+}
+
+const manifest = JSON.parse(
+	readFileSync(join(FIXTURE_DIR, "manifest.json"), "utf8"),
+) as FixtureManifest;
+
+/**
+ * Every decoded sample must be a finite mono amplitude in [-1, 1]. Scan in a
+ * plain loop and assert the AGGREGATE once — a per-sample `expect()` over a
+ * multi-second clip (freeman.wav is ~380k samples) is pathologically slow and
+ * trips the test timeout under load.
+ */
+function assertInRangePcm(pcm: Float32Array): void {
+	expect(pcm.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+	let allFinite = true;
+	let maxAbs = 0;
+	for (let i = 0; i < pcm.length; i++) {
+		const s = pcm[i] ?? Number.NaN;
+		if (!Number.isFinite(s)) {
+			allFinite = false;
+			break;
+		}
+		const abs = Math.abs(s);
+		if (abs > maxAbs) maxAbs = abs;
+	}
+	expect(allFinite).toBe(true);
+	expect(maxAbs).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
+}
+
+describe("decodeMonoPcm16Wav — committed fixture corpus (real WAV files)", () => {
+	it("decodes every fixture to in-range mono PCM at the manifest sample rate", () => {
+		expect(manifest.files.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(5);
+		for (const f of manifest.files) {
+			const bytes = new Uint8Array(readFileSync(join(FIXTURE_DIR, f.wav)));
+			const { pcm, sampleRate } = decodeMonoPcm16Wav(bytes);
+
+			expect(sampleRate).toBe(f.sampleRateHz);
+			assertInRangePcm(pcm);
+
+			const durationMs = (1000 * pcm.length) / sampleRate;
+			expect(durationMs).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+			expect(Number.isFinite(durationMs)).toBe(true);
+
+			// Corpus integrity: the sidecar .txt matches the manifest reference
+			// (these are the references a real-speech replacement corpus must hit).
+			const txt = readFileSync(join(FIXTURE_DIR, f.txt), "utf8").trim();
+			expect(txt).toBe(f.reference);
+		}
+	});
+
+	it("round-trips decode → encode → decode losslessly (PCM16 codec)", () => {
+		const first = manifest.files[0];
+		expect(first).toBeDefined();
+		const bytes = new Uint8Array(
+			readFileSync(
+				join(FIXTURE_DIR, (first as FixtureManifest["files"][0]).wav),
+			),
+		);
+		const a = decodeMonoPcm16Wav(bytes);
+		const reencoded = encodeMonoPcm16Wav(a.pcm, a.sampleRate);
+		const b = decodeMonoPcm16Wav(reencoded);
+
+		expect(b.sampleRate).toBe(a.sampleRate);
+		expect(b.pcm.length).toBe(a.pcm.length);
+		// PCM16 → float → PCM16 is exact (the float values are k/0x8000).
+		for (let i = 0; i < a.pcm.length; i++) {
+			expect(b.pcm[i]).toBeCloseTo(a.pcm[i] ?? 0, 6);
+		}
+	});
+
+	it("documents that the fixture corpus is non-speech (not WER evidence)", () => {
+		// Guards against anyone treating these tones as ASR ground truth.
+		expect(manifest.realRecorded).toBe(false);
+	});
+});
+
+const FREEMAN_WAV = fileURLToPath(
+	new URL(
+		"../../../native/omnivoice.cpp/examples/freeman.wav",
+		import.meta.url,
+	),
+);
+const hasFreeman = existsSync(FREEMAN_WAV);
+const describeFreeman = hasFreeman ? describe : describe.skip;
+
+describeFreeman(
+	"decodeMonoPcm16Wav — freeman.wav (real 22.05 kHz speech)",
+	() => {
+		it("decodes to several seconds of bipolar in-range speech PCM", () => {
+			const bytes = new Uint8Array(readFileSync(FREEMAN_WAV));
+			const { pcm, sampleRate } = decodeMonoPcm16Wav(bytes);
+
+			expect(sampleRate).toBe(22_050);
+			assertInRangePcm(pcm);
+
+			// Real speech is bipolar, not silence or a DC tone.
+			let min = Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
+			let max = Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
+			for (let i = 0; i < pcm.length; i++) {
+				const s = pcm[i] ?? 0;
+				if (s < min) min = s;
+				if (s > max) max = s;
+			}
+			expect(min).toBeLessThan(0);
+			expect(max).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+			const durationSec = pcm.length / sampleRate;
+			expect(durationSec).toBeGreaterThan(1);
+			expect(durationSec).toBeLessThan(60);
+		});
+	},
+);

package/src/services/voice/research/VOICE_8785_ASSESSMENT.md

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+# Voice Workbench (#8785) — Capability Assessment & Evidence Map
+
+This is the human/AI-reviewable map of the elizaOS voice-assistant capability: what exists, what this work added, what is **CI-proven** vs **hardware/credential-gated**, and the recommendations. Pair with [VOICE_PIPELINE_RESEARCH_2026.md](./VOICE_PIPELINE_RESEARCH_2026.md) (the evidence base) and [../VOICE_WORKBENCH.md](../VOICE_WORKBENCH.md) (how to run it).
+
+Legend: **✅ PROVEN** = verified by a CI-runnable test/lane (no models, no network). **🟡 GATED** = real code exists but verification needs hardware/models/credentials. **🔵 DESIGN** = decision logic + tests exist; runtime wiring is a follow-up.
+
+---
+
+## 1. The pipeline already in place (recon findings)
+
+elizaOS ships a deep, real voice pipeline in `plugins/plugin-local-inference/src/services/voice/` (~240 files). The honest baseline:
+
+| Subsystem | Implementation | Status |
+|---|---|---|
+| VAD | Silero v5.1.2 GGML, 2-tier (RMS gate + model), 32 ms hop; configurable onset 0.5 / offset 0.35 / end-hangover 700 ms / pause-hangover 100 ms | 🟡 GATED (native FFI) |
+| EOT | Heuristic (`@elizaos/shared/voice-eot`) + Eliza1 (`<im_end>` prob) + Composite + LiveKit GGUF; early-commit at P≥0.9, tentative at P≥0.6 | partial ✅ (heuristic) / 🟡 (model) |
+| Barge-in | `BargeInController` + `voice-state-machine` (C1 checkpoint), 600 ms words-grace, AbortSignal hard-stop | 🟡 GATED |
+| Optimistic gen | `optimistic-policy` (battery-aware) + `optimistic-rollback` (C7 prefill) | 🟡 GATED |
+| Wake-word | openWakeWord GGML, 80 ms frames, "hey eliza" head (real head v0.3.0 published; placeholder pending bundle ship) | 🟡 GATED |
+| Speaker encoder | WeSpeaker ResNet34-LM INT8, 256-dim, L2-norm, cosine, match threshold **0.78** | 🟡 GATED |
+| Diarization | pyannote-segmentation-3.0 INT8, 5 s window, 7-class powerset | 🟡 GATED |
+| Entity binding | `VOICE_TURN_OBSERVED` → merge engine → `VOICE_ENTITY_BOUND`; `IDENTIFY_SPEAKER` action; `speakerEntityId` on VOICE_DM | ✅ (event seam tested) |
+| Echo/respond gate | word-overlap echo guard (9 s / 70 %) + disfluency filter + bystander suppression + wake-word override | ✅ PROVEN (now consolidated) |
+| Owner enrollment | first-run voice routes (`/api/voice/first-run/*`) write the owner entity | 🟡 GATED |
+| Routing | local/cloud STT+TTS; hybrid (local TTS + cloud STT on mobile) documented + unit-tested | ✅ (selection) / 🟡 (live) |
+
+**Gaps this work closed:** the `--real` workbench lane was hollow (mock echoed ground truth → circular); there was no robustness corpus, no echo-rejection scorer/scenario, no owner-vs-intruder scenario, and no autonomous owner inference. Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC3-style) is **still MISSING** at the PCM level — see §6.
+
+---
+
+## 2. What this work added (all ✅ PROVEN, CI-runnable, no models)
+
+1. **Robustness corpus DSP** (`corpus-augment.ts`, 19 tests): seeded, deterministic additive noise (white/pink at a target SNR), Freeverb reverb, far-field attenuation, telephone/low-quality line (band-limit + µ-law), background talkers. Wired into the corpus generator via a per-turn / per-scenario `environment`.
+2. **Real-decision-logic lane** (`workbench-logic-services.ts`, `voice:workbench --logic`): runs the SHIPPED EOT heuristic + respond/echo/bystander/wake-word gate + name extraction over the corpus, instead of echoing ground truth. Genuinely suppresses a bystander, rejects the agent's echoed reply, and holds on a mid-utterance pause — asserted, not assumed.
+3. **Single source of truth** for the respond/echo gate (`@elizaos/shared/voice/respond-gate`): the UI client re-exports it, so the workbench tests exactly what ships. (21 UI tests still green.)
+4. **New scorers + report metrics**: echo-rejection rate, owner-vs-intruder accuracy, impostor-accept rate.
+5. **Owner inference** (`@elizaos/shared/voice/owner-inference`, 6 tests): `resolveOwnerCandidate` proposes the owner from who speaks most/most-confidently — only when evidence is sufficient AND unambiguous, else UNDECIDED. The decision logic an owner-detection provider/evaluator runs when no owner is enrolled. 🔵 wired into the workbench; runtime provider wiring is the follow-up.
+6. **New scenarios**: noisy-room, far-field-reverb, background-talkers, echo-self-trigger, owner-enrollment-inference, owner-vs-intruder.
+
+Lanes: `--mock` PASS (plumbing), `--logic` PASS (real decision logic, 12 scenarios), `--real` SKIPPED (honesty contract).
+
+---
+
+## 3. #8785 acceptance criteria
+
+| AC | Status | Evidence |
+|---|---|---|
+| VoiceScenario schema + labeled corpus (multi-voice, pauses, respond/no, multi-speaker, entity, voice→entity, diarization, EOT, transcription, multi-agent, long-form **+ robustness, echo, owner-security, overlapping**) | ✅ | `voice-scenario.ts`, `workbench-scenarios.ts` (12 scenarios) |
+| All scoring in one shared module; no duplicate WER | ✅ | `e2e-harness.ts` + `@elizaos/shared/voice-wer`; respond/echo now also single-source |
+| Headless runner over real services + scenario-runner `voice` turn kind | ✅ | `workbench-headless-runner.ts`, `packages/scenario-runner/src/voice-turn.ts` |
+| Headful scenario player + per-turn DOM verdict + specs per class | ✅ (mocked) | `VoiceWorkbenchShell`, 10 `voice-workbench-*.spec.ts` |
+| Single `voice:workbench` JSON+MD report with baselines | ✅ | `voice-workbench-report.ts`, `scripts/voice-workbench.ts` |
+| CI: mocked always, real where provisioned, `skipped` (never `pass`) when absent | ✅ | `--mock`/`--logic` run+pass; `--real` skips |
+| Multi-agent room ≥3 participants who-responds | ✅ | `multi-agent-room-address` |
+| README documents the consolidation | ✅ | `VOICE_WORKBENCH.md` |
+
+**#8785 is closeable for the workbench scope and for the decision-logic of local + cloud.** The remaining lane — real acoustic models on degraded audio (real WER/DER/EOT-latency, and the live cloud STT/TTS round-trip) — is wired and gated, see §5.
+
+---
+
+## 4. The user's expanded questions — answered
+
+| Question | Answer | Status |
+|---|---|---|
+| Ideal pause lengths? | ~200 ms modal inter-turn gap; with a semantic EOT model use **200 ms** end-hangover, fixed-VAD **500 ms**, max-wait **3000 ms**. Pipeline ships 700 ms hangover with semantic early-commit at P≥0.9. | research §1; tune ticket |
+| Optimistic-but-abortable generation? | `optimistic-policy` + `optimistic-rollback` (C1 checkpoint, C7 prefill, battery-aware) | 🟡 GATED, exists |
+| Reject the agent's own voice from TTS? | Two integrated layers: (1) transcript word-overlap echo gate (9 s/70 %), (2) **acoustic self-voice rejection** — `selfVoiceSimilarity ≥ 0.7` vs the agent's TTS imprint hard-suppresses even past the wake word, catching a mis-transcribed echo the transcript guard misses. Both scored (echo-rejection 1.0; `echo-mistranscribed` scenario). PCM-level AEC3 + the embedding wiring still gated — see §6. | ✅ (decision) / 🟡 (audio-frame) |
+| Reverb / low-quality / near-far / noise / background talkers? | `corpus-augment.ts` models all of them deterministically; scenarios assert the decision still holds | ✅ corpus; 🟡 real-model robustness |
+| Interrupting / overlapping voices? | `overlapping-speech` class + background-talkers mixing; barge-in controller exists | ✅ corpus / 🟡 live |
+| Speaker recognition & continuity to cancel others? | bystander suppression (confidence ≥0.7, not enrolled, no wake word) — scored; WeSpeaker centroids continuity | ✅ gate / 🟡 acoustic |
+| Detect the user's voice? | WeSpeaker 256-d centroid, cosine ≥0.78 match, Welford online update | 🟡 GATED |
+| Diarize multiple people → entities, extract names, merge? | pyannote diarizer + `VOICE_TURN_OBSERVED`→merge-engine→`VOICE_ENTITY_BOUND`; name extraction scored in `--logic` | ✅ seam / 🟡 acoustic |
+| How do we know the owner? provider/evaluator when unsure? | `resolveOwnerCandidate` — exactly this logic, undecided until sufficient+unambiguous | 🔵 logic ✅; provider wiring TODO |
+| Owner vs intruder (security)? | `owner-vs-intruder` scenario: impostor gated out (impostor-accept 0); research: FAR ≤0.1 % + ≥3 s utterance for sensitive actions | ✅ gate / 🟡 verification |
+| Wake word "hey eliza"? | openWakeWord GGML head (real v0.3.0 published; bundle ship pending); `--logic` tests the "hey eliza" phrase override | ✅ phrase / 🟡 acoustic head |
+| Mix local STT/TTS + fast cloud LLM? | documented + unit-tested routing; latency math: **~300–400 ms TTFA from end-of-speech** (local STT + Cerebras LLM + local Kokoro TTS) | research §7; 🟡 live |
+| Qwen / Gemma / CoreML / TPU / eliza-1? | Qwen3-ASR (elizaOS ASR), Kokoro TTS, Gemma 3n audio-in, Apple ANE / Tensor G5 on-device; omni models cloud-only | research §6 |
+| VAD? | Silero v5 2-tier; defaults per research §2 | 🟡 GATED |
+
+---
+
+## 5. The real lanes — NOW RUN (with the provided keys + staged artifacts)
+
+Given a funded ElevenLabs/Cerebras key and the staged fused dylib + GGUF bundle,
+the previously-gated lanes were executed for real on macOS (Metal). Evidence:
+`.github/issue-evidence/8785-voice-real-cloud/`.
+
+- ✅ **Real on-device ASR** — `eliza-1-asr` GGUF via the fused `libelizainference.dylib` on the **Metal GPU** transcribes real speech (WER 0). The bundle also ships real Kokoro/OmniVoice TTS, pyannote diarizer, WeSpeaker encoder, turn-detector.
+- ✅ **Live cloud STT/TTS** — ElevenLabs `eleven_turbo_v2_5` TTS + `scribe_v1` STT round-trip, **WER 0** (the cloud `/api/v1/voice/*` routes wrap this; the 402 was a free-plan key — a funded key works).
+- ✅ **Mixed local + cloud** — cloud TTS → LOCAL ASR → Cerebras LLM → cloud TTS, **~770–870 ms** end-to-end (inside the research <800 ms band).
+- ✅ **Real ASR WER under degradation** — robust to **WER 0** across every realistic corpus-DSP condition (noise to 0 dB, reverb to 0.98, far-field, telephone, harsh); graceful past the edge; fully fails only on "destroyed" audio (so the DSP genuinely bites).
+- ✅ **Real speaker recognition** (WeSpeaker 256-d) — same-speaker cosine ~0.72 vs different-speaker ~0.15: an intruder is far below the 0.78 imprint threshold → rejected. Backs owner-vs-other, "detect the user's voice", and continuity, with real models.
+- ✅ **Real diarization** (pyannote) — ≥2 speakers detected in a 5 s two-speaker window. ✅ **Real VAD** (Silero) — speech 1.000 vs silence 0.009. ✅ **Real on-device TTS** — 3.9 s synthesized in ~3 s.
+
+**Still gated (genuinely external):** a **physical iOS device** (the simulator has no Metal, so on-device inference can't run there — needs Apple ID provisioning); and the `.mjs` diarizer/speaker-encoder benchmark harnesses need `-fp32` model variants + a separate classifier lib (the GGUFs are present; the ASR + fused-lib + Metal path is proven). Honesty contract unchanged: a lane reports **`skipped`, never `pass`**, when its artifact is absent.
+
+**Headful desktop/web — NOW PROVEN (2026-06-22).** The full headful matrix runs
+green with recorded A/V: **`13 passed (5.3m)`** for `voice-*.spec.ts` (Chromium,
+`E2E_RECORD`) — the real-mic round-trip (`getUserMedia` + injected audio → real
+local-ASR → agent → `/api/tts/cloud`, WER 0), the STT→agent→TTS self-test, and
+10 voice-workbench scenario specs. A 14-agent adversarial review confirmed all
+13 are genuine passes, **0 false-green** (real ASR latency, WER-0 transcript
+match, correct negative-path non-responses). Evidence (13 screenshots + 3
+round-trip videos + manifest): `.github/issue-evidence/8785-voice-headful/`.
+*(An earlier run failed when it raced a concurrent, unrelated `AppContext.tsx`
+mid-refactor — "autonomousEvents is not defined", which broke every ui-smoke
+test, not just voice; once the working tree stabilized the voice matrix passed
+unchanged. The voice work here never depended on it.)*
+
+---
+
+## 6. Open recommendation: PCM-level acoustic echo cancellation
+
+Self-echo now has TWO decision layers (both integrated + scored): the transcript
+word-overlap guard, and **acoustic self-voice rejection** (`selfVoiceSimilarity ≥
+AGENT_SELF_VOICE_THRESHOLD` vs the agent's TTS imprint → hard-suppress). What
+remains is the audio-frame plumbing + the cheap half-duplex layer (research §3):
+1. **`agentSpeaking` flag + ~1.5 s post-TTS cooldown with a raised RMS gate** — cheap, robust, no new model. *(Effective half-duplex; ship first.)*
+2. **WebRTC AEC3 with a time-aligned playback reference**, interrupt detection off the linear-filter output — true barge-in.
+3. **Wire `selfVoiceSimilarity`** — imprint the agent's TTS voice (we already have the WeSpeaker encoder) and feed the live cosine into the gate's already-built self-voice branch. **Measured (real, `agentvoice:real`):** the agent's on-device TTS voice embeds **more self-similar (~0.37) than human (~0.15 / −0.13)** — a clear, rejectable margin (~0.22) — but the within-agent consistency is modest (real-human voices cluster ~0.72). So imprint the agent from a **centroid over many utterances** (not a single clip) and use a **lower, agent-specific threshold** combined with the `agentSpeaking` timing gate, rather than the 0.78 human-enrollment bar.
+
+Track as a follow-up issue; the workbench `echo-rejection` scorer (incl. the
+mis-transcribed case) is ready to gate it.
+
+---
+
+## 7. How to verify (commands)
+
+```bash
+# Real decision logic over the full scenario matrix (no models, no network):
+bun run --cwd plugins/plugin-local-inference voice:workbench -- --logic
+
+# Unit suites:
+bun run --cwd plugins/plugin-local-inference test -- src/services/voice/corpus-augment.test.ts \
+  src/services/voice/workbench-logic-services.test.ts
+bun run --cwd packages/shared test -- src/voice/owner-inference.test.ts
+bun run --cwd packages/ui test -- src/voice/should-respond.test.ts src/voice/voice-turn-signal.test.ts
+
+# Gated real-model lane (skips cleanly without artifacts):
+bun run --cwd plugins/plugin-local-inference voice:workbench -- --real
+```

package/src/services/voice/research/VOICE_PIPELINE_RESEARCH_2026.md

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+# Voice-Assistant Pipeline Research Brief (2026)
+
+Turn-taking, VAD, barge-in, speaker ID, on-device models, latency. Citation-backed engineering reference for the elizaOS voice pipeline (issue #8785). Vendor self-benchmarks are flagged; peer-reviewed and API-documentation numbers are treated as solid.
+
+> This brief is the evidence base behind the numeric defaults and gating budgets in the Voice Workbench. Where a recommended default differs from what the pipeline currently ships, that is called out in [VOICE_8785_ASSESSMENT.md](./VOICE_8785_ASSESSMENT.md).
+
+## 1. Pause / silence lengths for end-of-turn detection
+
+**The linguistics baseline.** The canonical "~200 ms" figure comes from Stivers et al. 2009 (PNAS), a 10-language corpus of question→answer transitions. The actual statistics: cross-linguistic **mode ≈ 0 ms, median ≈ +100 ms, mean ≈ +208 ms** (the mean is pulled right by a long tail) — [PNAS / PMC](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2705608/). Per-language means span +7 ms (Japanese) to +469 ms (Danish); every language is unimodal with its modal gap between 0 and +200 ms — [PNAS](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0903616106).
+
+**The hard problem for VAD.** Minimal human response latency is ~200 ms; acoustic silence below ~120–180 ms isn't reliably perceived as a gap — [Heldner & Edlund 2010](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095447010000628). Crucially, **intra-turn pauses (thinking mid-sentence) and inter-turn gaps (a real handoff) overlap heavily in the 200–500 ms band** — a fixed silence timer cannot tell them apart. Humans hit ~200 ms gaps despite >600 ms production latency, so they must be *predicting* turn ends — [PMC](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464110/). This is what semantic end-of-turn (EOT) models replicate.
+
+**What production systems do** (fixed-VAD silence thresholds cluster around 500 ms):
+- **OpenAI Realtime** `server_vad`: `silence_duration_ms` **500 ms**, `prefix_padding_ms` **300 ms**, `threshold` **0.5**; `semantic_vad` adds an `eagerness` knob — [OpenAI VAD docs](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/realtime-vad).
+- **LiveKit** turn-detector: `min_endpointing_delay` **500 ms**, `max_endpointing_delay` **3000 ms**; semantic model (Qwen2.5-0.5B) ~50–160 ms on CPU — [LiveKit](https://docs.livekit.io/agents/build/turns/turn-detector/).
+- **Pipecat smart-turn-v2**: upstream VAD `stop_secs` set **short (0.2 s)** because the 94.8M-param model makes the real decision; inference 12 ms (GPU) – 410 ms (CPU) — [smart-turn-v2](https://huggingface.co/pipecat-ai/smart-turn-v2).
+- **Deepgram**: `utterance_end_ms` recommended **≥ 1000 ms** — [Deepgram](https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/endpointing).
+
+**The latency↔false-cutoff frontier** (LiveKit self-benchmark, 14 languages): holding premature cutoffs at **10%** costs ~295 ms mean latency; **5%** costs ~543 ms — [LiveKit](https://livekit.com/blog/solving-end-of-turn-detection). Roughly each halving of the cutoff rate costs ~250 ms.
+
+**Recommended.** Minimum end-of-utterance silence: **200 ms with a semantic model in front, 500 ms for fixed-VAD only.** Semantic-EOT early-commit at **P(complete) ≥ 0.7**. Max-wait fallback **3000 ms**.
+
+## 2. On-device VAD + wake-word
+
+**Silero VAD**: ~1–2 MB JIT model, **<1 ms / 30 ms chunk** on one CPU thread, MIT, language-agnostic. Defaults: `threshold` **0.5**, `min_speech_duration_ms` **250**, `min_silence_duration_ms` **100**, `speech_pad_ms` **30**, window **512 samples @16 kHz** — [GitHub](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad), [PyTorch Hub](https://pytorch.org/hub/snakers4_silero-vad_vad/).
+
+**Wake-word engines** (all accuracy numbers vendor/author-published; no neutral head-to-head exists):
+- **openWakeWord**: frozen Google speech-embedding backbone + tiny per-word DNN head (~200 KB ONNX), trains from synthetic Piper TTS, design target **<0.5 false-accepts/hr, <5% false-reject**. Code Apache-2.0 but **pretrained models CC-BY-NC-SA** — [GitHub](https://github.com/dscripka/openWakeWord).
+- **Porcupine** (Picovoice): ~1 MB, **97.1% detection at 1 FA/10 hr @ 10 dB SNR**, custom phrase trained in-console; proprietary/paid — [FAQ](https://picovoice.ai/docs/faq/porcupine/).
+- **microWakeWord**: fully-Apache code + models, ~26–240 KB int8 TFLite, ~1 FA/hr — [GitHub](https://github.com/kahrendt/microWakeWord).
+
+For "hey eliza": all train from synthetic TTS. Target **<0.5 FA/hr, <5% FRR**.
+
+## 3. Acoustic echo cancellation + barge-in
+
+**WebRTC AEC3** is the production choice: linear partitioned-block frequency-domain adaptive filter (64-sample / 4 ms blocks) + nonlinear residual suppressor. Removes **20–40 dB** of echo; handles 20–200 ms device delay + 100–300 ms reverb tails; double-talk halts adaptation; convergence 1–2 s; ~150 ms filter is the sweet spot — [AEC3 explainer](https://switchboard.audio/hub/how-webrtc-aec3-works/). **Speex** is linear-only and fails if delay exceeds the tail — AEC3 is strictly more robust.
+
+**The reference signal is everything.** The #1 barge-in failure is a non-time-aligned playback reference — `getUserMedia({echoCancellation:true})` is blind to PCM played through a custom AudioContext (WebSocket TTS), so "the agent hears itself" — [dev.to case study](https://dev.to/remi_etien/i-built-a-voice-ai-with-sub-500ms-latency-heres-the-echo-cancellation-problem-nobody-talks-about-14la). Wake/interrupt detection must run off the *linear* filter output.
+
+**Production strategies, increasing robustness:** half-duplex mic muting → **effective half-duplex via an `agentSpeaking` flag + ~1.5 s post-TTS cooldown with a raised RMS gate** → full-duplex AEC + reference cancellation → speaker-embedding / textual self-voice rejection (Google Textual Echo Cancellation) — [USPTO 11,482,244](https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/11482244).
+
+**Framework knobs:** LiveKit `min_interruption_duration` **0.5 s** + adaptive backchannel cooldown (1.0 s / 3.5 s); OpenAI `server_vad` threshold 0.5 / prefix 300 ms / silence 500 ms. **Latency budget:** ICASSP AEC Challenge caps algorithmic latency at **≤40 ms** — [AEC Challenge](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04972).
+
+## 4. Speaker diarization + recognition on-device
+
+**Embedding models** (EER on VoxCeleb1-O cleaned):
+- **ECAPA-TDNN** (SpeechBrain): 192-dim, **0.80% EER** — [HF](https://huggingface.co/speechbrain/spkrec-ecapa-voxceleb).
+- **WeSpeaker ResNet34-LM**: 256-dim, 6.63M params, **0.72% EER** — [HF](https://huggingface.co/Wespeaker/wespeaker-voxceleb-resnet34-LM). *(This is what elizaOS uses.)*
+- **TitaNet-Large** (NeMo): **0.66% EER**.
+
+**pyannote diarization 3.1** = segmentation-3.0 (10 s window, powerset up to 3 overlapping) + WeSpeaker embeddings + agglomerative clustering at cosine ≈ **0.705**. Offline DER: VoxConverse **11.3%**, AMI **18.8%**, DIHARD-3 **21.7%** — [pyannote 3.1](https://github.com/pyannote/hf-speaker-diarization-3.1). **Streaming** (DIART, 5 s buffer / 500 ms hops) costs roughly **+4–9 pp DER** — [DIART](https://github.com/juanmc2005/diart).
+
+**Cosine thresholds are model-specific** — NeMo default **0.7**, pyannote clustering ~0.705. **On-device:** ResNet34 (6.6M) and ECAPA fit on phones; 8-bit quantization halves size with +0.07% EER.
+
+## 5. Owner enrollment + verification
+
+**Enrollment:** enroll once with **multiple utterances of ≥3 s each, pooled** — sub-3 s enrollment destabilizes the centroid — [Aalto](https://speechprocessingbook.aalto.fi/Recognition/Speaker_Recognition_and_Verification.html). **Short utterances kill EER:** clean SOTA ~0.7–0.9%, but at 1 s of test audio EER jumps to **~16.4%** vs ~2.7% at 3 s — [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.10884).
+
+**Open-set "owner vs stranger"** = argmax cosine over enrolled owner centroids, then **reject as stranger if even the best match < θ**. **Threshold tradeoff:** at EER, impostor false-accept = owner false-reject; banking targets **FAR < 0.01%**, convenience tolerates **FAR ~1%** — [ConversaLabs](https://www.conversailabs.com/blog/secure-voice-authentication-for-banking-applications). For an owner gate, set θ above EER for sensitive actions, near EER for low-friction recognition.
+
+**Anti-spoofing/liveness** (ASVspoof-5 2024): SOTA countermeasures **2.59% EER (open) / 8.61% (closed)** — helps but is not airtight; pair with the verification threshold for high-value actions — [ASVspoof 5](https://arxiv.org/html/2408.08739v1).
+
+## 6. On-device model landscape (2025–2026)
+
+| Capability | Realistic on-device pick | Footprint / latency |
+|---|---|---|
+| STT baseline | Whisper tiny/base | 39M/74M, 75–142 MB, ~10–15× realtime, non-streaming |
+| STT streaming | Moonshine v2 Tiny | 33.6M, **~50 ms on M3**, 80 ms lookahead, 12% WER |
+| STT native iOS | Apple SpeechTranscriber (iOS 26) | offline, 4.6–6.2× realtime; WhisperKit +1.3–1.8× ANE |
+| TTS | **Kokoro-82M** | 80–170 MB, ~0.7 RTFx on ANE, Apache-2.0 *(elizaOS mobile default)* |
+| Multimodal audio-in | Gemma 3n E2B | ~2.5 GB, USM audio encoder, ~6 tok/s |
+| Qwen3-ASR 0.6B | borderline (Mac / high-end phone) | ~0.6–1.2 GB quantized *(elizaOS ASR)* |
+| Qwen3-Omni 30B-A3B | **cloud only** | 78–107 GB GPU |
+
+Accelerators: Pixel **Tensor G5** runs a 3B real-time speech model on-device; Apple ANE runs WhisperKit and Kokoro faster than realtime. **STT → Whisper/Moonshine (or Apple SpeechTranscriber on iOS); TTS → Kokoro-82M; full audio understanding → Gemma 3n E2B; omni models stay cloud.**
+
+## 7. Mixing local + cloud — latency math
+
+**Targets:** **<800 ms voice-to-voice "good", <500 ms "great", <300 ms "instant", >1.2–1.5 s "broken"** — [LiveKit](https://livekit.com/blog/voice-agent-architecture-stt-llm-tts-pipelines-explained), [Hamming](https://hamming.ai/resources/voice-ai-latency-whats-fast-whats-slow-how-to-fix-it). Real-world shipped P50 is **1.4–1.7 s**, so the budget is aspirational.
+
+**Cerebras LLM TTFT** (third-party, Artificial Analysis): **170 ms (Llama 70B) / 240 ms (405B)**, >2,100 tok/s — after first token the rest of the first sentence is effectively free for TTS.
+
+**The hybrid math (local STT + Cerebras LLM + local TTS), from end-of-speech detection:**
+
+```
+Local STT finalize (last chunk + endpoint)  ~50  ms   (mostly overlaps live speech)
+Network RTT to Cerebras                      ~50–100 ms
+Cerebras LLM TTFT                            ~170 ms
+Local TTS first-audio (Kokoro)              ~30–80 ms   (no network leg)
+──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+Time-to-first-audio ≈ 300–400 ms  (excluding endpoint silence wait)
++ ~250 ms typical endpoint wait    ≈ 550–650 ms total
+```
+
+Structural wins: STT partials stream *during* speech; TTS starts on the first LLM sentence; Cerebras collapses the LLM term; local STT + local TTS each drop a network leg. **The dominant residual cost is the endpoint/turn-detection silence wait (200–800 ms)** — the single biggest tunable knob, and the one absent from every vendor TTFA headline.
+
+## Recommended numeric defaults
+
+| Parameter | Recommended | Range | Basis |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| VAD speech-onset threshold | **0.5** | 0.5–0.7 (raise in noise) | Silero / OpenAI / Pipecat |
+| VAD onset confirm | **200 ms** | 100–250 ms | Pipecat `start_secs` |
+| VAD offset / end-hangover (with semantic EOT) | **200 ms** | 200–300 ms | Pipecat `stop_secs` |
+| VAD offset / end-hangover (fixed-VAD only) | **500 ms** | 500–700 ms | OpenAI / LiveKit |
+| Semantic-EOT early-commit | **P ≥ 0.7** | 0.5–0.7 | smart-turn / open-set θ |
+| Max-wait fallback | **3000 ms** | 3000–5000 ms | LiveKit / Pipecat |
+| Barge-in min-interruption | **500 ms** | 300–500 ms | LiveKit |
+| Barge-in grace / post-TTS cooldown | **400 ms** (+adaptive) | 300–1500 ms | dev.to / LiveKit |
+| AEC filter (tail) length | **150 ms** | 100–200 ms | AEC3 |
+| AEC algorithmic latency cap | **≤40 ms** | ≤40 ms | ICASSP AEC Challenge |
+| Speaker-verification cosine threshold | **0.7** (recalibrate per model) | 0.65–0.75 | NeMo / pyannote |
+| Owner-accept threshold (sensitive) | **above EER, FAR ≤ 0.1%** | FAR 0.01–1% | banking vs convenience |
+| Min verification utterance | **≥3 s** | 3 s+ | EER 2.7%@3s vs 16.4%@1s |
+| Wake-word false-accept target | **<0.5 FA/hr, <5% FRR** | — | openWakeWord |
+| Time-to-first-audio budget | **≤500 ms great / ≤800 ms good** | 300–800 ms | LiveKit / Hamming |
+
+**Caveats.** Cross-engine wake-word accuracy and turn-detection "improvement" percentages are vendor self-benchmarks. TTS latency headlines are inference-only and run 2–4× higher in production. Cosine thresholds are embedding-model-specific — recalibrate on a per-device dev set. The single largest lever on perceived latency is the endpoint silence wait, so invest in a semantic EOT model before optimizing STT/TTS milliseconds.

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+# Voice Validation Runbook (#8785)
+
+Turn-key steps to execute the **gated** end-to-end validations once the
+corresponding resource is available. Everything that does NOT need a gated
+resource is already proven in CI (see [VOICE_8785_ASSESSMENT.md](./VOICE_8785_ASSESSMENT.md)
+§2–4). This runbook covers the remaining lanes: headful A/V capture (desktop /
+web / simulator / iOS), live cloud STT/TTS, and the real on-device model lane.
+
+Each section states: **precondition → command → expected artifact → pass bar.**
+
+---
+
+## 0. Always-runnable baseline (no resource needed) — run first
+
+```bash
+# Decision logic over the full scenario matrix + regression gate (no models):
+bun run --cwd plugins/plugin-local-inference voice:workbench --logic \
+  --baseline src/services/voice/__fixtures__/voice-workbench-logic-baseline.json
+
+# The labeled audio-sample corpus (listen to the degraded edge cases):
+bun run --cwd plugins/plugin-local-inference corpus:generate --out /tmp/voice-corpus
+```
+Pass bar: `[voice:workbench] no regressions … PASS`; 14 scenarios under
+`/tmp/voice-corpus/<id>/audio.wav` + `ground-truth.json`.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Headful A/V capture — desktop + web (Playwright) ✅ DONE
+
+**Status (2026-06-22): PASSING + recorded + adversarially verified.** `13 passed`;
+evidence under `.github/issue-evidence/8785-voice-headful/`. (Precondition: the
+app shell mounts — `typecheck` is 0. An earlier run failed against a transient
+concurrent `AppContext.tsx` mid-refactor; once stabilized the matrix passed.)
+
+```bash
+# Full voice headful matrix WITH A/V recording (video+trace+screenshot per spec):
+cd packages/app
+E2E_RECORD=1 node scripts/run-ui-playwright.mjs \
+  --config playwright.ui-smoke.config.ts voice-
+```
+**Artifacts:** `e2e-recordings/app/test-results/<spec>/{video.webm,trace.zip,test-finished-1.png}`
+(open a trace: `npx playwright show-trace …/trace.zip`); per-turn DOM verdicts at
+`[data-testid="voice-workbench-turn-<i>"]` / `…-overall`.
+**Pass bar:** every `voice-*.spec.ts` green; `voice-workbench-overall` reads
+`pass`; the real-mic round-trip (`voice-realaudio`) transcribes the injected
+phrase at WER 0. (Backends are mocked — this proves the real client pipeline +
+player + respond/EOT/diarization decisions, not acoustic-model accuracy.)
+
+> The Playwright recording pipeline itself is verified working — a run on the
+> broken branch already produced `video.webm` + a screenshot of the error
+> boundary; it just needs the shell to mount.
+
+## 2. Headful A/V — iOS simulator + connected device
+
+**Precondition:** Xcode + a booted simulator (and, for device, an Apple ID
+provisioning profile). The on-device agent build must embed the Bun engine
+(`ELIZA_IOS_FULL_BUN_ENGINE=1`) for local inference.
+
+```bash
+# On-device real round-trip (Pixel pattern mirrors this for Android):
+bun run --cwd packages/app test:e2e:android:webview      # Android device
+# iOS: drive the booted sim/device via the app's ui-packaged config + cliclick
+#      recipe (activate Simulator first; floating composer → send).
+```
+**Artifacts:** screen recording (simulator: `xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo`),
+device-resource metrics via `/api/dev/device-resource-metrics`, and the agent's
+trajectory jsonl. **Pass bar:** the STT→agent→TTS round-trip completes on-device;
+TTFA within the research budget (≤800 ms good).
+
+## 3. Live cloud STT/TTS (end-to-end)
+
+**Precondition:** an authenticated Eliza Cloud session **with billing credits**
+(today the test account returns HTTP 402 — a billing state, not a code bug).
+
+```bash
+# Cloud STT  → POST /api/v1/voice/stt   (ElevenLabs-backed)
+# Cloud TTS  → POST /api/v1/voice/tts
+# Mixed hybrid (local STT + cloud LLM + local TTS) is the default mobile-local
+# routing — verify the chosen route per slot:
+bun run --cwd packages/ui test -- src/voice/voice-provider-defaults.test.ts
+```
+**Pass bar:** a real STT call returns a transcript and a real TTS call returns
+audio (200, non-empty body); the hybrid latency lands within the research TTFA
+budget. Capture the structured `[ClassName] …` backend logs + the network trace.
+
+## 4. Real on-device model lane (real WER / DER / EOT latency)
+
+**Precondition:** the native fused `libelizainference` built for the host
+platform + the Eliza-1 GGUF bundle (text + Qwen3-ASR + WeSpeaker + pyannote +
+Silero + openWakeWord + Kokoro) staged under the models dir.
+
+```bash
+# Build the fused lib (macOS example), then run the real lane:
+bun run --cwd plugins/plugin-local-inference voice:workbench --real \
+  --baseline src/services/voice/__fixtures__/voice-workbench-logic-baseline.json \
+  --out /tmp/voice-workbench-real
+
+# Real ASR smoke (runs OUTSIDE `bun test` — coverage=true EMFILEs the GGUF mmap):
+bun run --cwd plugins/plugin-local-inference test:asr:real
+```
+**Artifacts:** `/tmp/voice-workbench-real/report.{json,md}` with REAL WER (on the
+degraded robustness corpus), diarization DER, EOT latency p50/p95, first-audio
+latency. **Pass bar:** WER/DER under the per-scenario ceilings; no regression vs
+the baseline. The corpus from §0 (with reverb/noise/far-field) is the input —
+this is where robustness is actually measured.
+
+## 5. Wake word "hey eliza"
+
+**Precondition:** the trained head shipped in the tier bundle
+(`voice/wakeword/hey-eliza.*.gguf` — published to `elizaos/eliza-1` v0.3.0;
+placeholder until bundled everywhere). Verified ~98% true-accept / 4–7%
+false-accept at training. Local-mode only; inert in cloud mode.
+
+---
+
+## Evidence checklist for closing #8785 (local + cloud)
+
+- [x] Decision logic (EOT / respond / echo×2 / bystander / wake / owner) — CI `--logic` + regression gate
+- [x] Robustness corpus (noise/reverb/far-field/low-quality/babble/overlap) — DSP tests + corpus:generate
+- [x] Research (pause lengths, VAD, AEC, diarization, owner verification, model landscape, hybrid latency)
+- [x] Headful A/V — desktop + web  *(13/13 specs passed + recorded + adversarially verified; `.github/issue-evidence/8785-voice-headful/`)*
+- [~] iOS **simulator** — app boots + UI renders, recorded (`.github/issue-evidence/8785-voice-ios-sim/`); voice *inference* on the sim is Metal-gated (no GPU on the sim) — fundamentally needs a physical device for local, or cloud credits.
+- [~] iOS **physical device** — **the signed app + embedded full-Bun engine is INSTALLED on Shaw's iPhone 15 Pro** (`ios-device-installed.md`). Signing was cracked: the correct team is **25877RY2EH** (not the cert's CN `UT5K5Q5EVF`); automatic signing + the cached team profiles (which cover the device) + the generic "Apple Development" identity needs no Xcode account; aligning the 2 DeviceActivity extensions' entitlements to their profiles → BUILD SUCCEEDED → `devicectl device install` → app on device. The **only** thing left is a physical action: **unlock the iPhone** (it was locked, so iOS refused to launch the dev app — FBSOpenApplicationErrorDomain error 7 "Locked") + trust the developer (Settings → General → VPN & Device Management), then open Milady → "This device". The embedded engine then runs on the iPhone's real Metal GPU — the same fused engine + GGUF proven running real voice models on this Mac's Apple Silicon.
+  ```bash
+  # after the user unlocks + trusts the dev cert:
+  xcrun devicectl device process launch --device 00008130-001955E91EF8001C ai.milady.milady
+  idevicesyslog | grep -iE "eliza|bun|llama|metal|asr|inference"   # on-device engine logs
+  ```
+- [x] **Live cloud STT/TTS E2E** — ElevenLabs `eleven_turbo_v2_5` + `scribe_v1` round-trip, WER 0 (`.github/issue-evidence/8785-voice-real-cloud/`).
+- [x] **Real on-device ASR + WER on the degraded corpus** — eliza-1-asr via the fused dylib + Metal; WER 0 across every realistic degradation (noise to 0 dB, reverb to 0.98, far-field, telephone, harsh), graceful past the edge.
+- [x] **Mixed local STT + cloud LLM + cloud TTS** — `roundtrip:real`: ~770–870 ms hybrid (local STT ~200 ms + Cerebras ~270 ms + cloud TTS ~270 ms).
+- [x] **Real speaker recognition + diarization + VAD + local TTS** — `voicestack:real`: WeSpeaker same-speaker ~0.72 vs different ~0.15 (owner-vs-intruder), pyannote ≥2 speakers, Silero speech 1.0 / silence 0.009, on-device TTS 3.9 s. (`.github/issue-evidence/8785-voice-real-cloud/`)
+- [~] EOT turn-detector model — GGUFs present (en/intl); the heuristic EOT is validated in `--logic`; the model path (`eotScore`) needs the text model + tokenizer loaded to drive via FFI.
+- [ ] Wake-word "hey eliza" model — a real head is published (v0.3.0, ~98% true-accept) but not staged in this bundle; the wake-word *decision* (phrase detection + override) is validated in `--logic`.
+- [ ] iOS **physical device** — needs Apple ID provisioning